have to say,#奥尔特曼 He makes a living by his own ability and is the person in the world who is least afraid of losing his job. After he was fired, super companies such as Microsoft, Google, and Musk immediately extended olive branches to him, and almost without saying a word, they fired the board of directors that fired him.
Sam Altman at the Asia-Pacific Economic Cooperation summit last week. His reinstatement caps a wild five days that upended OpenAI.#OpenAI developed #chatgpt Chatbot.
Sam Altman at the Asia-Pacific Economic Cooperation summit last week. His reinstatement caps a wild five days that upended OpenAI, which developed the ChatGPT chatbot. CARLOS BARRIA/REUTERS
OpenAI announced that Sam Altman resumed his role as CEO on Tuesday evening, having been ousted last week by the company’s board of directors in a reshuffle that will exclude members who opposed Altman, following a push by allies, employees and investors.
“We have reached an agreement in principle for Sam to return to OpenAI as CEO and for a new initial board of directors to consist of Brett Taylor (Chairman), Larry Summers, and Adam DiAngelo,” OpenAI said in a post on X. “We are working together to iron out the details. Thank you for your patience during this time.”
Altman’s return and the potential reshuffle of the board cap a turbulent five days for OpenAI, one of the world’s most closely watched artificial intelligence companies, creator of the chatbot ChatGPT.
“I love OpenAI, and everything I’ve done over the past few days has been about preserving this team and its mission,” Altman wrote on X. “With the support of the new board and Satya (Satya Nadella, current Microsoft CEO – Editor’s note), I’m looking forward to returning to OpenAI and further solidifying our close collaboration with Microsoft.”
On Friday afternoon, the OpenAI board informed Altman that he would be fired, shocking him and the company's employees. Greg Brockman, president of OpenAI, who co-founded the company with Altman, resigned in protest.
Immediately after the ouster, Altman, 38, and his allies in the tech industry, along with OpenAI employees, sought to pressure the company’s board to reinstate him. After weekend negotiations, the board announced late Sunday that it would stick with its decision.
But just a few hours later, an overwhelming development occurred: Microsoft, OpenAI's largest investor, announced that Altman, Brockman and others would join the company to establish a new advanced artificial intelligence laboratory.
The startup’s future was put in jeopardy after nearly all of OpenAI’s more than 700 employees signed a letter informing the board that they would leave the company to follow Altman to Microsoft if he was not reinstated.
The four board members who initially decided to remove Altman were Ilya Sutskever, one of the founders of OpenAI, Adam D'Angelo, CEO of Quora, Helen Toner, strategic director of the Center for Security and Emerging Technology at Georgetown University, and Tasha Macaulay, an entrepreneur and computer scientist.
But as employee opposition grew, Sutskever posted a message of contrition on X: “I deeply regret my participation in the board’s actions.” He also signed a joint letter from employees.
