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Altman could reportedly receive a 7% equity stake, which would be worth about $10.5 billion at OpenAI's new valuation.
In March, The New York Times reported Murati raised concerns about Altman's leadership style to the board before the ouster.
Barret Zoph, the company's vice president of research, and Bob McGrew, OpenAI's chief research officer, are also departing the startup, Altman announced on X .
"I obviously won't pretend it's natural for this one to be so abrupt, but we are not a normal company," Altman wrote.
Persons:
—, Sam Altman, Altman, Mira Murati, Slack, Murati, Barret Zoph, Bob McGrew, Joel Saget, Jenny Chang, Rodriguez, Meta —, it's, Elon Musk's, OpenAI
Organizations:
Service, Business, Employees, The New York Times, Lakshmi, OpenAI's, Meta, Reuters, Anthropic
Locations:
OpenAI, Lakshmi Varanasi