17 from the maker of the popular ChatGPT chatbot shocked the tech industry. In a post on X, formerly Twitter, Toner said she officially resigned, and added, “I’ll be continuing my work focused on AI policy, safety, and security.”Īltman’s dismissal on Nov. Altman said in his blog post that Sutskever won’t be a board member, but that the company is “discussing how he can continue his work at OpenAI.”ĭirectors Helen Toner and Tasha McCauley will no longer be on the board. Later, Sutskever said that he regretted his role in the ouster. Ilya Sutskever, OpenAI’s chief scientist and co-founder, was one of the directors that fired Altman. He added: “We’ve only been on the board for half an hour.” In an interview, he said the directors will undertake a “serious review and learn all the appropriate lessons,” but that he did not have any immediate comments on the investigation. Summers said he will focus on increasing the size of OpenAI’s board and improving governance procedures for both the nonprofit and for-profit parts of its business. Altman said in the interview that the new board members will oversee the inquiry and he “welcomes” it. OpenAI began in 2015 as a nonprofit research organization, but later shifted its structure to include a for-profit startup that has solicited investments and entered into partnerships with companies such as Microsoft to use its AI tools.The company is slated to be valued at $86 billion in a planned tender offer that will let some employees sell their stakes to outside investors.Īs part of an an effort to “further stabilize the OpenAI organization,” Taylor said that company would convene an “independent committee of the board to oversee a review of the recent events.” Previously, Bloomberg reported that Altman agreed to an internal investigation of the conduct that led to his dismissal. One of the directors’ primary tasks will be to build out a more permanent board. The new directors are Bret Taylor, the former co-CEO of Salesforce Inc., who will be the chairman Larry Summers, the former US treasury secretary and Adam D’Angelo, a holdover from the previous board and the CEO of question-and-answer site Quora Inc. Microsoft, the company’s largest investor, had not previously had a position on the board before it took the observer role. OpenAI co-founder Greg Brockman will return as the company’s president after he quit in protest over Altman’s firing. OpenAI also said that Mira Murati - who had been chief technology officer until Altman’s ousting when she was briefly named interim CEO - is once again the company’s CTO. The announcement Wednesday, a blog post penned by Altman, comes two weeks after the CEO’s shock firing from the artificial intelligence startup, followed by an operatic boardroom power struggle. OpenAI said that Sam Altman was officially reinstated as chief executive officer and that it has a new initial board of directors, with Microsoft Corp.

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