According to the company, Altman was fired as a result of an internal “deliberative review process” that determined he had not” consistently candid in his communications with the board, hindering its ability to exercise its responsibilities.” The board no longer believes he will be able to lead OpenAI as a result.
Altman was thanked by OpenAI, the company that owns the well-known AI chatbot ChatGPT, for his “many contributions to the founding and growth” but says Mira is “exceptionally qualified to step into the role of interim CEO” because she is in charge of the business’s research, product, and safety functions.” ” The utmost confidence in her ability to lead OpenAI during this transition period,” the board added.
Ilya Sutskever, the company’s chief scientist, and Greg Brockman, its chairman and president, make up the board of directors of OpenAI. Board members include Quora CEO Adam D’Angelo, tech entrepreneur Tasha McCauley, and Georgetown Center for Security and Emerging Technology privacy advocate Helen Toner. These advisors are independent and do not own any stock in the company. Despite having served as the company’s CEO before leaving, Altman was still regarded as an impartial advisor on the board.
I cherished my stay at Openai. For me personally and, hopefully, for the rest of the world, it was transformative. I cherished working with such gifted individuals the most.
will speak further about what will happen next.
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November 17, 2023, Sam Altman ( @sama )
Altman has become something of the unofficial face of OpenAI and the burgeoning industry as a whole as his personal profile has expanded over the past year along with the explosive growth of generative AI technologies. Alman, who was formerly the president of Y Combinator, has spoken before committees and panels in Congress, attended Senate AI Insight forums, and traveled widely at business gatherings.
Given how consistently and heavily Altman promoted his business and its products in the days leading up to his termination, the suddenness of Friday’s announcement is undoubtedly unexpected.
At OpenAI’s 2023 DevDay just last week, Altman debuted a smaller, application-specific model called GPTs as well as the faster and more responsive GT- 4 Turbo platform. Altman attended the CEO summit for the Asia-Pacific Economic Cooperation on Thursday in San Francisco. During the incident, he said,” Something has qualitatively changed.” ” I can now speak with this thing.” It’s similar to the” Star Trek” computer I was always promised; I believe the entire world has struggled to catch up this year.
There are other people involved in this shuffle besides Altman and Murati. Brockman will also resign from his position as board president, but he will report to the new CEO at OpenAI.
OpenAI was co-founded by Altman in 2015, and since 2019 he has been the company’s CEO. The generative AI boom is credited to the company’s highly-popular ChatGPT conversational AI release last November. Users were initially able to communicate with a digital agent—one that was more capable than the previous generation of Siri, Alexa, and Assistant—using natural language thanks to the system, which was initially built on top of the GPT-3.5 platform. The ability to output computer code and manage remote processes and devices through API access was quickly added to those capabilities, which also included a wide range of languages and modalities.
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