After a board meeting which held at OpenAI, Sam Altman was relieved of his duties as CEO of the company.In fact he have been fired from the company all together. The company’s existing CTO Mira Murati have took charge as the interim CEO of OpenAI. She will remain at position of CEO until a new CEO is chosen and appointed. OpenAI is the mother company of the famous ChatGPT.
Sam Altman have been with OpenAI since the beginning. Lately, the Sam Altman was the face of company, as after the release of ChatGPT he have been seen everywhere wherever company needed to demonstrate their products to people or talk about them.
Even the employees of OpenAI came to know about ousting of Sam Altman through a public statement release after a company board meeting. One of co-founder of OpenAI, Greg Brockman revealed turn of events in his following post on X social media platform.
Sam Altman also posted about his experience at OpenAI through the years, he told he loved his time at OpenAI and it has been transformative period for him. The exact post can be seen as below.
Greg Brockman also revealed in a tweet that after hearing the new ousting of Sam Altman from CEO position and the his ousting from the company’s board, he have sent following message to the company.
hi everyone,
i’m super proud of what we’ve all built together since starting in my apartment 8 years ago. we’ve been through tough & great times together, accomplishing so much despite all the reasons it should have been impossible.
but based on today’s news, i quit. genuinely wishing you all nothing but the best. i continue to believe in the mission of creating safe AGI that benefits all of humanity.
Greg Brockman’s Message to openai board
Remember that Greg Brockman was removed from his position from company board but his role a at company was not taken away from him. But after hearing about the ousting of Sam Altman he chose to give up his role at company.
According to the reason provided by the OpenAI Company board, “Sam Altman was not consistently candid in his communications with the board, hindering its ability to exercise its responsibilities”. Also they said “The board no longer has confidence in his ability to continue leading OpenAI”.
The above description given by the OpenAI company board about ousting of Sam Altman is very vague and does not pinpoint where exactly the things gone wrong between Sam Altman the board executives.
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