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☆ OpenAI COO breaks down Apple partnership, new AI models
▼ + stars: | 2024-10-07 | by ( ) www.cnbc.com time to read: 1 min

Share Share Article via Facebook Share Article via Twitter Share Article via LinkedIn Share Article via EmailOpenAI COO breaks down Apple partnership, new AI modelsBrad Lightcap, OpenAI COO, joins 'Squawk on the Street' to discuss the company's relationship with Apple, how OpenAI benefits economically from this partnership, and much more.

Persons: Brad Lightcap Organizations: Apple

☆ The OpenAI talent exodus has become the joke of the moment in tech world
▼ + stars: | 2024-09-26 | by ( Sarah Gray | ) www.businessinsider.com time to read: +5 min

Sutskever announced his departure from OpenAI in May and launched his own AI startup focused on safety. Of the 11 cofounders of OpenAI from 2015, only Altman, Brockman (who, again, is on leave), and Wojciech Zaremba remain. Daniel Kokotajlo and William Saunders, who previously worked on OpenAI's governance and safety teams, respectively, left OpenAI in the first half of 2023. AdvertisementAdditionally, OpenAI cofounder John Schulman left in August to join OpenAI rival Anthropic — where Leike also landed. On Wednesday, Meta announced that Meta AI is on track to be "the most used AI assistant in the world."

Persons: —, Mira Murati, Sam Altman, There's, OpenAI, Airbnb, KugtVv9o6N, Matt Turck, Altman, Murati, Ilya Sutskever, Greg Brockman, Brockman, Sutskever, Sam, Madeline, PnRxZSbGgx — sophie, Bob McGrew, Barret Zoph, Sarah Friar, Jakub Pachocki, Brad Lightcap, Kevin Weil, Wojciech Zaremba, Elon Musk, Musk, Jan Leike, Daniel Kokotajlo, William Saunders, John Schulman, Anthropic, Leike, Andrej Karpathy, Kokotajlo, Fortune Organizations: Service, Bloomberg, Business, Wired, OpenAI, —, Microsoft, Meta, Apple, Nvidia, Reuters Locations: OpenAI, Slack, —

☆ OpenAI announces a search engine called SearchGPT; Alphabet shares dip
▼ + stars: | 2024-07-25 | by ( Hayden Field | ) www.cnbc.com time to read: +3 min

OpenAI on Thursday announced a prototype of its own search engine, called SearchGPT, which aims to give users "fast and timely answers with clear and relevant sources." Since the launch of ChatGPT in November 2022, Alphabet investors have been concerned that OpenAI could take market share from Google in search by giving consumers new ways to seek information online. Alphabet shares were trading about 2.5% lower on Thursday, while the Nasdaq was up slightly. The SearchGPT announcement follows OpenAI's launch last Thursday of a new AI model, "GPT-4o mini." Last year, OpenAI Chief Operating Officer Brad Lightcap told CNBC: "The world is multimodal.

Persons: Sundar Pichai, OpenAI, Siri, Sarah Friar, Kevin Weil, Brad Lightcap Organizations: ChatGPT, Google, Nasdaq, Microsoft, Apple, Planet Labs, Twitter, Facebook, CNBC

☆ OpenAI debuts mini version of its most powerful model yet
▼ + stars: | 2024-07-18 | by ( Hayden Field | ) www.cnbc.com time to read: +2 min

OpenAI will launch a new AI model, "GPT-4o mini," the artificial intelligence startup's latest effort to expand use of its popular chatbot, later on Thursday. The company called the new release "the most capable and cost-efficient small model available today," and it plans to integrate image, video and audio into it later. The mini AI model is an offshoot of GPT-4o, OpenAI's fastest and most powerful model yet, which it launched in May during a livestreamed event with executives. The mini AI model announced Thursday is part of OpenAI's push to be at the forefront of "multimodality," or the ability to offer a wide range of types of AI-generated media, like text, images, audio and video, inside one tool: ChatGPT. GPT-4o mini will be available later Thursday to free users of ChatGPT, along with ChatGPT Plus and Team subscribers, and it will be available to ChatGPT Enterprise users next week, the company said in a release.

Persons: Brad Lightcap Organizations: omni, Microsoft, CNBC, ChatGPT, ChatGPT Enterprise Locations: GPT

☆ Reddit soars after announcing OpenAI deal that allows use of its data for training AI models
▼ + stars: | 2024-05-16 | by ( Hayden Field | ) www.cnbc.com time to read: +2 min

As part of the deal, OpenAI will gain access to Reddit's Data application programming interface, or API, "which provides real-time, structured, and unique content from Reddit," according to a release. In exchange, Reddit will begin offering certain AI features to users and moderators, powered by OpenAI, which will also become a Reddit advertising partner. OpenAI Chief Operating Officer Brad Lightcap spearheaded the deal, which was approved by the company's board, the release said. The update brings GPT-4 to everyone, including OpenAI's free users, Chief Technology Officer Mira Murati said Monday in a livestreamed event. Reddit, which went public in March and reached a record close a few days after its initial public offering, is back to trading near its high of $65.11.

Persons: Reddit, OpenAI, Steve Huffman, Sam Altman, Brad Lightcap, Mira Murati, Murati Organizations: New York Stock Exchange, Google, Reddit, GameStop Locations: New York City, Reddit

☆ OpenAI launches new AI model and desktop version of ChatGPT
▼ + stars: | 2024-05-13 | by ( Hayden Field | ) www.cnbc.com time to read: +2 min

OpenAI on Monday launched a new AI model and desktop version of ChatGPT, along with a new user interface. The update brings GPT-4 to everyone, including OpenAI's free users, CTO Mira Murati said in a livestreamed event. She added that the new model, GPT-4o, is "much faster," with improved capabilities in text, video and audio. For OpenAI, it's one of the company's biggest announcements since its August launch of ChatGPT Enterprise, the AI chatbot's business tier. OpenAI says that more than 92% of Fortune 500 companies are using the platform.

Persons: OpenAI, Mira Murati, Murati, Brad Lightcap, Anthropic Organizations: Monday, ChatGPT Enterprise, CNBC, Microsoft, Google, Fortune Locations: GPT

☆ Watch CNBC's full interview with OpenAI COO Brad Lightcap
▼ + stars: | 2024-05-07 | by ( ) www.cnbc.com time to read: 1 min

Share Share Article via Facebook Share Article via Twitter Share Article via LinkedIn Share Article via EmailWatch CNBC's full interview with OpenAI COO Brad LightcapCNBC's David Faber sits down exclusively with OpenAI's COO Brad Lightcap from the Milken Institute Global Conference to discuss its latest content tools, competition in the AI space, company structure and more.

Persons: Brad Lightcap CNBC's David Faber, Brad Lightcap Organizations: Milken Institute Global Conference

☆ OpenAI's Brad Lightcap on new content tool, copyright claims and AI outlook
▼ + stars: | 2024-05-07 | by ( ) www.cnbc.com time to read: 1 min

Share Share Article via Facebook Share Article via Twitter Share Article via LinkedIn Share Article via EmailOpenAI's Brad Lightcap on new content tool, copyright claims and AI outlookOpenAI COO Brad Lightcap joins 'Squawk on the Street' to discuss its new content tool, copyright claims, and the future of AI.

Persons: Brad Lightcap

☆ OpenAI exec says today's ChatGPT will be 'laughably bad' in 12 months
▼ + stars: | 2024-05-06 | by ( Aaron Mok | ) www.businessinsider.com time to read: +3 min

OpenAI COO Brad Lightcap says generative AI as it is today will be "laughably bad" within a year. The exec predicts ChatGPT could soon take on more "complex work" and be a "great teammate." The tech giant is set to release its latest language model, GPT-5, as early as this summer. One OpenAI executive predicts generative AI tools like its own at the moment will be nothing compared to what's to come. "That's going to be a different way of using software," the OpenAI exec said on the panel regarding AI's foreseeable capabilities.

Persons: Brad Lightcap, —, Lightcap, didn't Organizations: Service, Milken Institute Global, Business, Milken Institute Locations: OpenAI

☆ OpenAI's Altman pitches ChatGPT Enterprise to large firms, including some Microsoft customers
▼ + stars: | 2024-04-12 | by ( ) www.cnbc.com time to read: +4 min

OpenAI has promised that ChatGPT Enterprise customers' data will not be used to train its models. Talking to potential customers from industries including finance, healthcare and energy, OpenAI executives highlighted a range of applications, such as call-center management and translation. Microsoft, the largest investor in OpenAI, offers access to OpenAI's technology through its Azure cloud and by selling Microsoft 365 Copilot, a productivity tool powered by OpenAI's models targeting enterprises. Some executives in the audience at the events asked why they should pay for ChatGPT Enterprise if they are already customers of Microsoft, attendees said. Lightcap told Bloomberg last week more than 600,000 people signed up to use ChatGPT Enterprise and Team, up from around 150,000 in January.

Persons: Altman, Brad Lightcap, Sam Altman, OpenAI, Lightcap, ChatGPT, Sora Organizations: ChatGPT Enterprise, OpenAI, Fortune, Microsoft, Reuters, ChatGPT, Bloomberg, Enterprise, Team, Fox, News Corp Locations: U.S, London, San Francisco , New York, OpenAI

☆ OpenAI and Meta are on the verge of releasing AI models capable of reasoning like humans, report says
▼ + stars: | 2024-04-10 | by ( Beatrice Nolan | ) www.businessinsider.com time to read: +3 min

OpenAI and Meta are close to unveiling AI models that can reason and plan, the FT reported. AdvertisementOpenAI and Meta are reportedly preparing to release more advanced AI models that would be able to help problem-solve and take on more complex tasks. Representatives for Meta and OpenAI did not immediately respond to a request for comment from Business Insider, made outside normal working hours. Getting AI models to reason and plan is an important step toward achieving artificial general intelligence (AGI), which both Meta and OpenAI have claimed to be aiming for. Elon Musk, a longtime AI skeptic, recently estimated that AI would outsmart humans within two years.

Persons: —, Brad Lightcap, Joelle Pineau, OpenAI, John Carmack, Bengio, Geoffrey Hinton, Elon Musk, Musk Organizations: Meta, Service, Financial Times, Business

☆ Jensen Huang is about to give AI believers a glimpse of the future
▼ + stars: | 2024-03-17 | by ( Hasan Chowdhury | ) www.businessinsider.com time to read: +4 min

Read previewThere's a running gag that Jensen Huang is to AI fanboys what Taylor Swift is to Swifties. Nvidia's GTC event, starting on Monday, should answer that. AdvertisementMatt Bryson, an analyst at Wedbush, expects Nvidia to lift the lid on the B100, the next-generation version of its H100 GPU. Can AI models eventually reason? Of course, industry watchers will look for any sign that the Nvidia and AI mania might be about to slow down.

Persons: —, Jensen Huang, Taylor Swift, Sam Altman, Mark Zuckerberg, hasn't, Bojan Tunguz, Huang, Matt Bryson, Blackwell, It'll, Zuckerberg, he'll, JOSH EDELSON, Brad Lightcap, Arthur Mensch, Christian Szegedy, Elon Musk's, Aidan Gomez, Stanford's Fei, Fei Li, Wedbush's Bryson Organizations: Service, Nvidia, GPU Technology Conference, Business, Apple, Tech, Meta, Microsoft, Google, AMD Locations: San, Woodstock

☆ OpenAI strikes deals with more major news publishers, posing a threat to Google's dominance
▼ + stars: | 2024-03-16 | by ( Lakshmi Varanasi | ) www.businessinsider.com time to read: +6 min

The ChatGPT maker announced this week it had struck partnerships with two major European media organizations: France's Le Monde and Spain's Prisa Media. This story is available exclusively to Business Insider subscribers. This is a "threat" to GooglePublishers who've signed agreements with OpenAI say they hope the partnerships will bring new life to their business. By wooing users with a better interface, OpenAI could threaten Google's dominance over online search, Zaman said. OpenAI did not immediately respond to a request for comment from Business Insider.

Persons: —, OpenAI, Brad Lightcap, Axel Springer, Roger Lynch, Condé Nast, Google Publishers who've, Le Monde, Tauhid Zaman, Zaman, Hugh Martin Organizations: Service, Prisa, Business, Politico, CNN, Fox Corp, Bloomberg, ChatGPT, Yorker, Wired, The New York Times, Microsoft, Google Publishers, Google, Facebook, Media, Yale School of Management, Publishers, Scripps School of Journalism, Ohio University Locations: OpenAI

☆ Google-backed Anthropic debuts its most powerful chatbot yet, as generative AI battle heats up
▼ + stars: | 2024-03-04 | by ( Hayden Field | ) www.cnbc.com time to read: +5 min

This time last year, Anthropic was seen as a promising generative AI startup founded by ex-OpenAI research executives. "In our quest to have a highly harmless model, Claude 2 would sometimes over-refuse," Amodei told CNBC. Multimodality, or adding options like photo and video capabilities to generative AI, whether uploading them yourself or creating them using an AI model, has quickly become one of the industry's hottest use cases. But multimodality, and increasingly complex AI models, also lead to more potential risks. "Of course no model is perfect, and I think that's a very important thing to say upfront," Amodei told CNBC.

Persons: Anthropic, Claude, Opus, OpenAI's, Asana, It's, it's, Daniela Amodei, Amodei, Moby Dick, Harry Potter, Brad Lightcap, Anthropic's Claude, We've Organizations: Monday, Haiku, Google, ChatGPT, CNBC

☆ Sam Altman's OpenAI wants to get humanoid robots talking. Here's why.
▼ + stars: | 2024-02-29 | by ( Jyoti Mann | ) www.businessinsider.com time to read: +3 min

OpenAI has partnered with Figure AI, a startup developing humanoid robots. OpenAI believes the agreement will open up new pathways for robots to "help in everyday life." download the app Email address Sign up By clicking “Sign Up”, you accept our Terms of Service and Privacy Policy . AdvertisementOpenAI is betting big on humanoid robots. The ChatGPT creator has signed a collaboration agreement with Figure AI to "develop next generation AI models" for the robots as it believes they can "help in everyday life."

Persons: OpenAI, —, Jeff Bezos, Brad Lightcap, Peter Welinder, OpenAI's, Brett Adcock, Adcock, OpenAI didn't Organizations: Service, Business, Microsoft, NVIDIA, Amazon, US Chamber of Commerce

☆ After ChatGPT's viral success, OpenAI is now getting into video
▼ + stars: | 2024-02-15 | by ( Hayden Field | ) www.cnbc.com time to read: +3 min

OpenAI, which burst into the mainstream last year thanks to the popularity of ChatGPT, is bringing its artificial intelligence technology to video. Sora can also generate video clips inspired by still images, and extend existing videos or fill in missing frames. With Sora, OpenAI is looking to compete with video-generation AI tools from companies like Meta and Google , which announced Lumiere last month. Sora is a diffusion AI model that, like ChatGPT, uses the Transformer architecture, introduced by Google researchers in a 2017 paper. "Sora serves as a foundation for models that can understand and simulate the real world," OpenAI wrote in its announcement.

Persons: Sora, Lumiere, Brad Lightcap, hasn't, OpenAI Organizations: Meta, Google, Alexa, Microsoft, CNBC

☆ OpenAI CEO Sam Altman seeks as much as $7 trillion for new AI chip project: WSJ
▼ + stars: | 2024-02-09 | by ( Hayden Field | ) www.cnbc.com time to read: +2 min

OpenAI CEO Sam Altman is seeking trillions of dollars in investments to overhaul the global semiconductor industry, The Wall Street Journal reported. Altman could need to raise between $5 trillion and $7 trillion for the endeavor, The Wall Street Journal reported, citing one source. Nvidia has been the big moneymaker during the past year's generative AI boom, with its market cap more than tripling in 2023. Nvidia currently controls about 80% of that AI chip market with a current market cap of about $1.72 trillion, not far from overtaking tech giants like Amazon and Alphabet in market cap. Since then, OpenAI has announced a new board, including former Salesforce co-CEO Bret Taylor, former Treasury Secretary Larry Summers and Quora CEO Adam D'Angelo.

Persons: Sam Altman, Altman, OpenAI, OpenAI's ChatGPT, Brad Lightcap, Lightcap, ChatGPT, OpenAI's, Bret Taylor, Larry Summers, Adam D'Angelo, Read Organizations: Street Journal, United, United Arab Emirates, CNBC, Nvidia, Fortune, Microsoft Locations: —, United Arab

☆ OpenAI announces first partnership with a university
▼ + stars: | 2024-01-18 | by ( Hayden Field | ) www.cnbc.com time to read: +3 min

OpenAI on Thursday announced its first partnership with a higher education institution. Starting in February, Arizona State University will have full access to ChatGPT Enterprise and plans to use it for coursework, tutoring, research and more. With the OpenAI partnership, ASU plans to build a personalized AI tutor for students, not only for certain courses, but also for study topics. The access to ChatGPT Enterprise means students will no longer be limited by usage caps. OpenAI and ASU's joint release specified that any prompts the ASU community inputs into ChatGPT "remain secure," and that OpenAI "does not use this data for its training models."

Persons: Lev Gonick, Gonick, Brad Lightcap, OpenAI Organizations: Arizona State University, ChatGPT Enterprise, ASU, OpenAI's, CNBC, ChatGPT, CNBC PRO Locations: Seattle , Los Angeles and New York

☆ OpenAI COO Brad Lightcap talks about ChatGPT launch, Dev Day and how Sam Altman thinks
▼ + stars: | 2023-12-04 | by ( Hayden Field | ) www.cnbc.com time to read: +23 min

And I think that's just a testament to the world being really big and messy, and that these systems are still evolving, they're still really in their infancy. That may be a thing that's useful in your work, or maybe a thing that's useful in your life, or it may just be a fun thing – it may just be that you create a funny GPT and it's a cool thing to have. High-level, we always knew that we wanted to have a structure that, at its core, retained the original OpenAI – the OpenAI nonprofit. So that's the first thing to understand, I think, about OpenAI: It's not a normal company in that sense. We have shared that we have an initial board now, and expect to add more board membersWhat's the general mood like at the company right now?

Persons: OpenAI, Sam, Altman, Brad Lightcap, Lightcap, ChatGPT, OpenAI's, Bret Taylor, Larry Summers, Adam D'Angelo, Dev Day, DALL, we'd, doesn't, haven't, they've, – there's, There's, …, We're, we've, Dev, It's, You've, Sam Altman, reappointment Organizations: CNBC, Fortune, Microsoft, ChatGPT Enterprise, OpenAI, OpenAI's Locations: San Francisco

☆ OpenAI exec says this is the most overhyped — and underhyped — thing about AI right now
▼ + stars: | 2023-12-04 | by ( Jordan Hart | ) www.businessinsider.com time to read: +3 min

Some companies expect AI to be an ultimate solution, but it doesn't work like that, he said. Generative AI programs, like ChatGPT, have been used by individuals for school, business, and more. For Lightcap, the most overhyped aspect of AI is that it can completely transform a business "in one fell swoop." Morgan Stanley predicts that AI tools will increase earnings for jobs across industries by at least $83 million by 2030. AdvertisementHowever, there are naysayers who fear generative AI will be used for more supervillain-type activities, like stealing artwork or replacing jobs.

Persons: OpenAI, —, Brad Lightcap, they've, ChatGPT, Lightcap, there's, It's, Morgan Stanley, Geoffrey Hinton, it's Organizations: Service, CNBC

As Open AI employees celebrated the return of CEO Sam Altman with a five-alarm office party , OpenAI software engineer Steven Heidel was busy publicly rebuffing overtures from Salesforce CEO Marc Benioff. Heidel was one of more than 700 OpenAI employees who's threatened exodus halted a would-be mutiny at one of Silicon Valley's most important AI companies. He was previously a scientist at Facebook AI Research and worked as a member of Google Brain under supervision of Prof. Geoffrey Hinton and Ilya Sutskever. Alec Radford: Radford was hired in 2016 from a small AI company he founded in his dorm room. Tao Xu : technical staff, worked on GPT4 and WhisperChristine McLeavey : technical staff, with contributions to music-related productsChristina Kim : technical staffChristopher Hesse : technical staffHeewoo Jun : technical staff, researchAlex Nichol : technical staff, researchWilliam Fedus: technical staff, researchIlge Akkaya: technical staff, researchVineet Kosaraju : technical staff, researchHenrique Ponde de Oliveira Pinto : technical staffAditya Ramesh : technical staff, developed DALL-E and DALL-E 2Prafulla Dhariwal : research scientistHunter Lightman : technical staffHarrison Edwards : research scientistYura Burda : machine language researcherTyna Eloundou : technical staff, researchPamela Mishkin : researcherCasey Chu : researcherDavid Dohan : technical staff, researchAidan Clark : researcherRaul Puri : research scientistLeo Gao : technical staff, researchYang Song : technical staff, researchGiambattista ParascandoloTodor Markov : Machine learning researcherNick Ryder : technical staff

Persons: Sam Altman, Steven Heidel, Marc Benioff, Heidel, Altman, Mira Murati, Murati, Brad Lightcap, Lightcap, Jason Kwon, Kwon, Wojciech Zaremba, Geoffrey Hinton, Ilya Sutskever, Alec Radford, Radford, OpenAI, Peter Welinder, He's, Github Copilot, Anna Makanju, Andrej Karpathy, OpenAI's, Michael Petrov, Petrov, Greg [ Brockman, Miles Brundage, Brundage, John Schulman OpenAI, Srinivas Narayanan, Scott Grey, Grey, Bob McGrew, Research Che Chang, Lillian Weng, Safety Systems Mark Chen, Frontiers Research Barret Zoph, Peter Deng, Jan Leike Evan Morikawa Steven Heidel Jong Wook Kim, Tao Xu, Christine McLeavey, Christina Kim, Christopher Hesse, Heewoo, Alex Nichol, William Fedus, Henrique Ponde de Oliveira Pinto, Aditya Ramesh, Hunter Lightman, Harrison Edwards, Yura, Tyna, Pamela Mishkin, Casey Chu, David Dohan, Aidan Clark, Raul Puri, Leo Gao, Yang, Giambattista Parascandolo Todor Markov, Nick Ryder Organizations: Business, BI, OpenAI, Khosla Ventures, Facebook, Research, Google, Tesla, U.S . Department of Energy, Oxford University, Safety Systems, Frontiers Research Locations: Albania, Canada, OpenAI

OpenAI logo is seen in this illustration taken, February 3, 2023. REUTERS/Dado Ruvic/Illustration/File Photo Acquire Licensing RightsNov 20 (Reuters) - OpenAI's staff has threatened to quit the artificial intelligence startup and join former boss Sam Altman at Microsoft's (MSFT.O) new division unless the board resigns, according to a letter seen by Reuters. Apart from Chief Technology Officer Mira Murati, Chief Data Scientist Ilya Sutskever and Chief Operating Officer Brad Lightcap, about 500 members of OpenAI staff said they would resign, a person familiar with the matter told Reuters. OpenAI did not immediately respond to a Reuters request for comment. Reporting by Akash Sriram in Bengaluru; Editing by Shweta Agarwal and Anil D'SilvaOur Standards: The Thomson Reuters Trust Principles.

Persons: Dado Ruvic, Sam Altman, Mira Murati, Ilya Sutskever, Brad Lightcap, OpenAI, Akash Sriram, Shweta Agarwal, Anil D'Silva Organizations: REUTERS, Reuters, Thomson Locations: Microsoft's, Bengaluru

☆ OpenAI workers threaten to quit if Sam Altman is not reinstated as CEO
▼ + stars: | 2023-11-20 | by ( Tom Carter | ) www.businessinsider.com time to read: +3 min

At least two-thirds of OpenAI staff have threatened to quit and join Sam Altman at Microsoft. It follows days of chaos at OpenAI after CEO Sam Altman was fired in a shock move. AdvertisementNearly 500 OpenAI staff have threatened to quit unless all current board members resign and ex-CEO Sam Altman is reappointed. Late on Sunday, Microsoft CEO Satya Nadella announced that Altman and former OpenAI president Greg Brockman would be joining a new AI team at Microsoft, after efforts by investors and current employees to bring him back as OpenAI CEO fell apart. OpenAI and Microsoft did not immediately respond to a request for comment from Business Insider, made outside normal working hours.

Persons: Sam Altman, —, Mira Murati, Brad Lightcap, Altman, Kara Swisher, Ilya Sutskever, Jan Leike, Murati, Satya Nadella, Greg Brockman, OpenAI, Emmett Shear, Twitch Organizations: Microsoft, Service, Wired, Sutskever, Business

☆ Hundreds of OpenAI employees threaten to follow Altman to Microsoft unless board resigns, reports say
▼ + stars: | 2023-11-20 | by ( Rohan Goswami | In Rohangoswamicnbc | ) www.cnbc.com time to read: +2 min

Hundreds of OpenAI employees, including co-founder and board member Ilya Sutskever, have signed a letter demanding that either OpenAI's remaining board members resign or those OpenAI employees will join Sam Altman's new venture at Microsoft , reports said. Five hundred and five OpenAI employees have signed the letter, Kara Swisher reported, representing the overwhelming majority of OpenAI's headcount. Multiple OpenAI employees voiced their support on social media as well. Altman was forced out Friday by OpenAI's board, including Sutskever, which cited unspecified issues with his communications. Microsoft CEO Satya Nadella on Sunday announced that Altman and fellow OpenAI co-founder Greg Brockman would join the company in a new, largely independent venture.

Persons: Sam Altman, Ilya Sutskever, Sam Altman's, Kara Swisher, Mira Murati, Brad Lightcap, Murati, Twitch, Emmett Shear, Sutskever, Altman, OpenAI's, Altman's, Satya Nadella, OpenAI, Greg Brockman, OpenAI wasn't, — CNBC's Jordan Novet, Hayden Field Organizations: OpenAI, Tech, Microsoft, Wired, CNBC, Sunday Locations: Laguna Beach , California, Sequoia, OpenAI

☆ OpenAI is bleeding talent in the wake of Sam Altman's ouster
▼ + stars: | 2023-11-20 | by ( Tom Carter | ) www.businessinsider.com time to read: +3 min

Greg Brockman announced three key OpenAI staffers are following him and Sam Altman to Microsoft. Sam Altman is heading up a new AI team at Microsoft after his shock firing by the OpenAI board. All three are senior or longstanding employees at OpenAI, suggesting that the company may face a talent drain after Altman's shock firing. OpenAI announced that Twitch co-founder Emmett Shear would become interim CEO of the AI firm, after negotiations to bring Altman back broke down. The Information also reported that fellow AI startups Cohere and Adept were reaching out to OpenAI employees and that Google Deepmind had received an uptick in resumes from OpenAI workers.

Persons: Greg Brockman, Sam Altman, —, Satya Nadella's, Altman, Jakub Pachocki, Szymon Sidor, Aleksander Madry —, OpenAI, Twitch, Emmett Shear, Pachocki, Mira Murati, Brad Lightcap, Ilya Sutskever, Tao Xu, Google Deepmind, Jim Fan Organizations: Microsoft, Service, Google Locations: OpenAI

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