(Reuters) – A few days after his dismissal, AI pioneer OpenAI is bringing Sam Altman back as company boss.
In addition to Altman’s return, the company also agreed in principle to a partial replacement of the board of directors that fired the OpenAI co-founder, the company announced on Wednesday. Altman said in a post on X (formerly Twitter): “I’m excited to return to OpenAI.” OpenAI appointed former Twitch boss Emmett Shear as interim boss on Monday, while Altman announced he would move to OpenAI investor Microsoft.
At the end of last week, OpenAI unexpectedly fired Altman along with the former president of the ChatGPT manufacturer, Greg Brockman. The reason given was a lack of communication with the board of directors. In addition to confusion about the motives, the surprising exemption also sparked concerns about the future of the AI startup.
The Reuters news agency received insight into a letter in which, by Monday, almost all of the more than 700 OpenAI employees threatened to resign if the board of directors did not resign. There were also calls for Altman and Brockman to return, who also wanted to move to Microsoft after the company manager was fired. The developments come less than a year after OpenAI sparked an AI boom with the launch of chatbot ChatGPT and attracted Microsoft, among other big names, as an investor.
(Report by Shivani Tanna in Bangalore, written by Anneli Palmen, edited by Myria Mildenberger If you have any questions, please contact our editorial team at [email protected] (for politics and economics) or [email protected] (for companies and markets).)
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