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Sam Altman attends the Asia-Pacific Economic Cooperation (APEC) CEO Summit in San Francisco, California, USA, November 16, 2023. /Reuters
Sam Altman attends the Asia-Pacific Economic Cooperation (APEC) CEO Summit in San Francisco, California, USA, November 16, 2023. /Reuters
OpenAI on Wednesday said it has reached an agreement for Sam Altman to return to the company as CEO with a new initial board of Bret Taylor, Larry Summers and Adam D’Angelo.
“I am looking forward to returning to OpenAI,” Sam Altman said in a post on X on the same day.
A screenshot of a tweet posted by OpenAI on November 22, 2023.
A screenshot of a tweet posted by OpenAI on November 22, 2023.
OpenAI on Monday named ex-Twitch boss Emmett Shear as interim CEO while outgoing chief Sam Altman moved to backer Microsoft.
The appointments, settled late in the night on Sunday, followed Altman’s abrupt departure just days earlier as CEO of the ChatGPT maker and ended speculation that he could return.
In a statement on the social media platform X, Shear dismissed speculation that OpenAI’s board ousted Altman because of a spat over the safety of powerful AI models. He vowed to open an investigation into the firing, consider new governance for OpenAI and continue its path of making technology like its viral chatbot available.
A screenshot of a tweet posted by Sam Altman on November 22, 2023.
A screenshot of a tweet posted by Sam Altman on November 22, 2023.
“I’m not crazy enough to take this job without board support for commercializing our awesome models,” Shear said, adding, “OpenAI’s stability and success are too important to allow turmoil to disrupt them like this.”
OpenAI dismissed Altman last Friday following a “breakdown of communications,” according to an internal memo seen by Reuters.
(With input from Reuters)
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