Sam Altman, the dismissed CEO of OpenAI, the company behind ChatGPT, will not return to his old position after all. On Sunday, he posted another photo of himself at the company’s headquarters on X. He negotiated a return there, according to American media.
On Friday came the surprising news of his resignation, which was effective immediately. The OpenAI board then said it no longer had confidence in Altman, who co-founded the company in 2015. He would not have been consistently candid in his communications, it said, without further details.
The board appointed technology director Mira Murati as temporary successor. But according to American media, there was a lot of criticism of the dismissal, both from employees and investors. Microsoft, among others, pumped 10 billion into the company. Microsoft is said to have insisted on Altman’s return. He was not only the face of the company, but also of the AI sector.
Attempts
On Sunday, both Altman and Greg Brockman, the co-founder of OpenAI who resigned on Friday after the news of Altman’s resignation, were expected to be invited to the company’s headquarters in San Francisco. Without results, as it turns out. Altman will not return to the company as director, reports website ‘The Information’. Attempts by executives within the company to bring him back have been unsuccessful.
Emmett Shear, co-founder of video streaming site Twitch, will temporarily take over as interim director, according to the message, which quotes co-founder and board member Ilya Sutskever.
In addition to Altman and Brockman, three veteran researchers also resigned, raising fears that a wave of employees would leave for rival companies such as Google. Altman himself would make plans for a new company after his dismissal, according to ‘The Information’.
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