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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

☆ Opinion | The Unsettling Lesson of the OpenAI Mess
▼ + stars: | 2023-11-22 | by ( Ezra Klein | ) www.nytimes.com time to read: +3 min

In my reporting, the best explanation I’ve heard for the board’s decision, as poorly communicated as it was, is that it fired Altman for the precise reason it said it fired Altman. “It would be wise to view any investment in OpenAI Global LLC in the spirit of a donation,” it warned. Satya Nadella, Microsoft’s chief executive, didn’t have the power to stop OpenAI’s board from firing Altman, but he did have the power to render the action hollow. He announced a new advanced innovations division, to be led by Altman (and the OpenAI president Greg Brockman, who resigned in solidarity with Altman) and staffed by any OpenAI employees who’d like to join. By Wednesday, Altman was back as chief executive of OpenAI and all but one of the board members had resigned.

Persons: I’ve, Altman, ”, OpenAI, Helen Toner, ” OpenAI, Satya Nadella, didn’t, Greg Brockman, weirdly, Ilya Sutskever, who’d, —, Meta’s Organizations: Microsoft, Google, OpenAI

☆ Ilya Sutskever did not attend OpenAI's party celebrating Sam Altman's return as CEO
▼ + stars: | 2023-11-22 | by ( Kali Hays | ) www.businessinsider.com time to read: +2 min

Ilya Sutskever was nowhere to be found Tuesday night at the impromptu party OpenAI staff threw to celebrate the return of Sam Altman as CEO. Sutskever was directly involved in Altman's abrupt removal as CEO last Friday by OpenAI's board, of which Sutskever was a member. With Altman now back leading the company, a new smaller board in place, and additional members imminent, staff are unsure if Sutskever will return at all. Another person familiar with both men thinks it is possible Sutskever could return and mend fences, however unlikely. Greg Brockman, OpenAI's president and another co-founder who quit in solidarity with Altman, is less magnanimous, the person said.

Persons: Ilya Sutskever, Sam Altman, Altman, Alex Weingarten, Willkie Farr, Gallagher, Ilya, Sam, Weingarten, Sutskever, OpenAI's, it's what's, Greg Brockman, Brockman Organizations: The, Business

☆ OpenAI’s wild week explained: How the Sam Altman story unfolded
▼ + stars: | 2023-11-22 | by ( Diksha Madhok | Clare Duffy | ) edition.cnn.com time to read: +7 min

ET, OpenAI publicly announced that it had fired Altman over concerns that he was not always truthful with the board. Sam Altman, left, appears onstage with Microsoft CEO Satya Nadella at OpenAI's first developer conference, on Nov. 6, 2023, in San Francisco. OpenAI’s board was also reportedly having second thoughts and considering asking the ousted CEO to return. Ultimately, Microsoft and Altman appear to be the big winners from the dust-up: Altman will continue leading the firm he helped to found. “We are encouraged by the changes to the OpenAI board,” Nadella said on X.

Persons: Elon, Sam Altman —, —, OpenAI, ChatGPT, Altman, Ilya Sutskever, Greg Brockman, Mira Murati, Altman’s, “, what’s, ” Brockman, Kara Swisher, Sam Altman, Satya Nadella, Barbara Ortutay, Nadella, Brockman, Emmett Shear, Murati, ” Nadella, ”, Justin Sullivan, Bret Taylor, Larry Summers, Adam D’Angelo, Shear, … Organizations: New Delhi CNN, Valley Bank, Google, Microsoft, OpenAI's, Sunday, OpenAI, CNBC, Twitter Locations: New York, New Delhi, OpenAI, San Francisco, San Francisco , California

Sam Altman, CEO of ChatGPT maker OpenAI, attends an open dialogue with students at Keio University in Tokyo, Japan June 12, 2023. The nonprofit board overseeing the maker of the popular ChatGPT chatbot sent shock waves through Silicon Valley on Friday by abruptly firing Chief Executive Sam Altman. The trust that controls the candymaker agreed in 2016 to replace certain board members after the Pennsylvania attorney general challenged the trust's spending. Under OpenAI's bylaws, only directors can remove or elect new board members. Board members can sue other board members, either directly or on behalf of the organization, for failing to exercise their duties, said Reid.

Persons: Sam Altman, OpenAI, Issei Kato, chatbot, Satya Nadella, Alexander Reid, Darryll Jones, OpenAI's, Reid, Ilya Sutskever, Altman, Greg Brockman, Sutskever, Anthropic, Jody Godoy, Tom Hals, Matthew Lewis Organizations: Keio University, REUTERS, Microsoft, Hershey Co, Florida, M University, U.S . Internal Revenue Service, Reuters, OpenAI, Thomson Locations: Tokyo, Japan, Silicon Valley, Pennsylvania, U.S, New York

☆ AI poster child Altman back at OpenAI, may have fewer checks on power
▼ + stars: | 2023-11-22 | by ( Aditya Soni | ) www.reuters.com time to read: +4 min

[1/3] Sam Altman, CEO of ChatGPT maker OpenAI, arrives for a bipartisan Artificial Intelligence (AI) Insight Forum for all U.S. senators hosted by Senate Majority Leader Chuck Schumer (D-NY) at the U.S. Capitol in Washington, U.S., September 13, 2023. "Altman seems awfully powerful and it is unclear that any board would be able to oversee him. The board fired Altman last week with little explanation and attempted to move on by naming an interim CEO twice. "The fact that Summers and Taylor will join OpenAI is quite extraordinary and marks a dramatic reversal of fortunes in the company," Valle said. Sutskever, Altman and Taylor could not be immediately reached for comment.

Persons: Sam Altman, OpenAI, Chuck Schumer, Craig Hudson, Sam Altman's, Altman, Mak Yuen Teen, " Altman, Beatriz Valle, Bret Taylor, Salesforce, Larry Summers, Summers, Taylor, Valle, Jack Dorsey's, Tasha McCauley, Helen Toner, Ilya Sutskever, Adam D'Angelo, Sutskever, Sam, Gartner, Jason Wong, Aditya Soni, Mark Porter Organizations: Intelligence, Senate, U.S, Capitol, REUTERS, Microsoft, National University of Singapore Business School, Wall, Elon Musk's, Twitter, ., Harvard, Democratic, OpenAI, Georgetown's Center for Security, Emerging Technology, Thomson Locations: Washington , U.S, Bengaluru

☆ Ilya Sutskever: The OpenAI Genius Who Told Sam Altman He Was Fired
▼ + stars: | 2023-11-21 | by ( Robert Mcmillan | ) www.wsj.com time to read: 1 min

Most employees at OpenAI have demanded that former CEO Sam Altman be reinstated after the company’s board fired him on Friday. Microsoft said late Sunday that it hired Altman to lead a new advanced artificial-intelligence research team. Photo: Justin Sullivan/Getty ImagesLast Friday, Ilya Sutskever sent a text message to his boss and fellow board member, Sam Altman . On the call was the rest of OpenAI’s board, but it was Sutskever, the company’s chief scientist and co-founder, who delivered the news. Altman was fired, “and the news was going out very soon.”

Persons: Sam Altman, Altman, Justin Sullivan, Ilya Sutskever, ” Organizations: OpenAI, Microsoft

☆ OpenAI is in a deadlock. The coming hours will determine its fate.
▼ + stars: | 2023-11-21 | by ( Hugh Langley | ) www.businessinsider.com time to read: +5 min

Most OpenAI employees have signed a letter saying they will leave if Altman is not reinstated. Extremely late Sunday, Microsoft CEO Nadella announced that Altman and OpenAI cofounder Greg Brockman would join Microsoft to lead a new AI research team. Let's say Microsoft ends up hiring the OpenAI employees threatening to walk, to the tune of almost 800 staff. Nadella has made clear he thinks OpenAI's board needs to change, and he's the man writing $13 billion checks. Salesforce CEO Marc Benioff has already offered to hire OpenAI employees who leave and match their compensation.

Persons: Altman, —, OpenAI, Sam Altman, Nadella, Greg Brockman, Brockman, Anna Makanju, everyone's, Ilya Sutskever, Emmett Shear, Kali Hays, Sutskever, Google's, Marc Benioff Organizations: Service, Friday's, Microsoft, Bloomberg, Employees, Meta, Rivals

While OpenAI later transitioned to a for-profit model, its controlling shareholder remains the nonprofit OpenAI Inc. and its board of directors. This unique structure made it possible for four OpenAI board members — the company's chief scientist, two outside tech entrepreneurs and an academic — to oust CEO Sam Altman on Friday. When it was founded, OpenAI’s original board co-chairs were Altman and Tesla CEO Elon Musk. Musk recently launched his own AI startup, xAI, to compete with OpenAI, Microsoft and Google, among others. OpenAI's board members have not responded to requests for comment.

Persons: ChatGPT, OpenAI, Sam Altman, Berkshire Hathaway, OpenAI’s, ”, Sarah Kreps, Altman, Greg Brockman, “, Kreps, Ilya Sutskever, we’ve, Adam D’Angelo, Tasha McCauley, Helen Toner, Reid Hoffman, Will Hurd, Shivon Zilis, Brockman, Elon Musk, Musk, D’Angelo, tweeting, ” He’s, Matt O'Brien, Michael Liedtke Organizations: FRANCISCO, Google, Facebook, OpenAI Inc, Cornell University’s Tech Policy Institute, Microsoft Corp, Microsoft, Georgetown Center for Security, Emerging Technology, Republican U.S . Rep, Tesla, OpenAI, Associated Press Technology Locations: Berkshire, OpenAI, Will Hurd of Texas, Providence , Rhode Island, San Francisco

☆ The fate of OpenAI hangs in the balance
▼ + stars: | 2023-11-21 | by ( Brian Fung | ) edition.cnn.com time to read: +6 min

That has only reinforced the impression that OpenAI’s boardroom drama could take an unexpected turn at any moment. First came the board’s sudden promotion of OpenAI’s chief technology officer, Mira Murati, as Altman’s replacement on Friday — made in the same breath as Altman’s firing. Whether Altman is working for Microsoft or OpenAI won’t change the ultimate result, Nadella argued to Swisher, which is that Microsoft benefits from his work. Much is still unclear about the board’s exact reasons for firing Altman. OpenAI’s newest interim CEO, Emmett Shear, has denied that the firing was due to any “specific” disagreement on AI safety.

Persons: that’s, Sam Altman, Monday, Altman, Satya Nadella, ” Nadella, Kara Swisher, we’re, That’s, Mira Murati, —, Murati, Altman’s, Ilya Sutskever, OpenAI, Nadella, Swisher, Marc Benioff, Emmett Shear, it’s, I’ve, ”, Charlie Warzel Organizations: CNN, Microsoft, Microsoft’s Locations: Silicon Valley

☆ Chaos at OpenAI ensues
▼ + stars: | 2023-11-21 | by ( Dan Defrancesco | ) www.businessinsider.com time to read: +9 min

In today's big story, we're looking at the continued fallout from the shocking Sam Altman ouster at OpenAI. Altman is alive and well, but his run as CEO of OpenAI ended abruptly on Friday. But in the days since his firing, he's escaped a messy weekend looking like the ultimate hero, Business Insider's Katie Notopoulos writes. To be fair, Microsoft CEO Satya Nadella and OpenAI CEO Emmett Shear don't seem to know why either. Meanwhile, Salesforce's Marc Benioff is already actively recruiting OpenAI employees on X.

Persons: —, Sam Altman, Altman, OpenAI, he's, Katie Notopoulos, Altman isn't, Ilya Sutskever —, Sutskever, Kali Hays, Satya Nadella, Emmett Shear, Satya Nadella Stephen Brashear, Julie Bort, Microsoft's Nadella, Nadella, that's, Madeline Renbarger, That's, It's, Kali, Ashley Stewart, Salesforce's Marc Benioff, Scott Olson, Bridgewater's, Greg Jensen, Jim Chanos, Elon, New York Jefferson Siegel, Nvidia's, Jensen Huang, execs, Elon Musk, Linda Yaccarino, Arantza Pena Popo, Camila Téllez, Melkorka, Téllez, Carly Rae Jepsen, Björk, Colleen Ballinger, Clinton, Dan DeFrancesco, Naga Siu, Hallam Bullock, Lisa Ryan Organizations: Service, Microsoft, Getty, BlackRock, Reuters, Nvidia, Elon, HP, Nordstrom, Clinton Lee Locations: OpenAI, Silicon Valley, Bridgewater, New York, Texas, Millennials, New York City, San Diego, London

☆ OpenAI board, Altman in talks for return of former CEO - Bloomberg News
▼ + stars: | 2023-11-21 | by ( ) www.reuters.com time to read: +2 min

Sam Altman, CEO of OpenAI, attend the Asia-Pacific Economic Cooperation (APEC) CEO Summit in San Francisco, California, U.S. November 16, 2023. Talks are happening between Altman and at least one board member, Quora CEO Adam D'Angelo, the report said. Altman could return as a director on a transitional board and the talks also involve some investors of the artificial intelligence startup. But things appeared fluid, as Microsoft CEO Satya Nadella told media on Monday "irrespective of where Sam is, he's working with Microsoft" and that governance at OpenAI needed to change. Other than Quora's D'Angelo, OpenAI's four-person board consisted of Tasha McCauley, Helen Toner and OpenAI chief scientist Ilya Sutskever as of Friday.

Persons: Sam Altman, Carlos Barria, Altman, Adam D'Angelo, Greg Brockman, Satya Nadella, Sam, Brockman, Nadella, Emmett Shear, Quora's D'Angelo, OpenAI's, Tasha McCauley, Helen Toner, Ilya Sutskever, Akash Sriram, Chavi Mehta, Devika Syamnath, Arun Koyyur Organizations: OpenAI, Economic Cooperation, REUTERS, Microsoft, Bloomberg, CNBC, Reuters, Thomson Locations: Asia, San Francisco , California, U.S, OpenAI, Bengaluru

☆ Microsoft exec says OpenAI employees can join with same compensation
▼ + stars: | 2023-11-21 | by ( Ashley Capoot | In | ) www.cnbc.com time to read: +2 min

Microsoft CTO Kevin Scott on Tuesday offered to match compensation for the hundreds of employees at OpenAI who are threatening to resign following Sam Altman's sudden ouster as CEO. "Know that if needed, you have a role at Microsoft that matches your compensation and advances our collective mission." But, the comment gives some clarity to what Microsoft is willing to pay employees and how many it would hire. Early Monday morning, Microsoft CEO Satya Nadella said that Altman, Greg Brockman, who resigned as OpenAI's president, and their colleagues would join Microsoft as part of a new AI research group. More than 600 OpenAI employees then signed a letter to the company's board and threatened to join their former boss at Microsoft unless the members resigned.

Persons: Kevin Scott, Sam Altman's, Sam Altman, Scott, Altman, Satya Nadella, Greg Brockman, Nadella, Brockman, OpenAI, Emmett Shear, Ilya Sutskever —, — Adam D'Angelo, Tasha McCauley, Helen Toner, Sutskever, Jordan Novet Organizations: Research, Microsoft, CNBC Locations: OpenAI

☆ OpenAI staff are putting their visas at risk to get Sam Altman back as CEO
▼ + stars: | 2023-11-21 | by ( Tom Carter | ) www.businessinsider.com time to read: +3 min

700 OpenAI employees have signed a letter threatening to quit if Sam Altman isn't reinstated as CEO. Some of them say they are on work-dependent visas, which they could lose if they are forced to quit. It's a sign of how much loyalty Altman has inspired among staff. AdvertisementOpenAI's employees are calling on the company's board to bring back Sam Altman — and some are even willing to put their visas at risk to get him back as CEO. A number of senior OpenAI employees are already expected to follow Altman and ex-OpenAI president Greg Brockman to Microsoft.

Persons: Sam Altman isn't, It's, Altman, —, Sam Altman —, Sam Altman, Mira Murati, Ilya Sutskever —, Reiichiro Nakano, Boris Power, Emmett Shear, Greg Brockman, Satya Nadella, Kara Swisher, OpenAI Organizations: Service, Microsoft, Business

☆ Why it was so easy for OpenAI's board to fire Sam Altman, one of the most influential CEOs in tech
▼ + stars: | 2023-11-21 | by ( Sawdah Bhaimiya | ) www.businessinsider.com time to read: +5 min

OpenAI's board of directors fired Sam Altman, the man behind ChatGPT, in a shock move on Friday. OpenAI's board announced Friday that Altman is out saying it "no longer has confidence in his ability to continue leading OpenAI." The board consisted of six people including OpenAI's president and cofounder Greg Brockman, OpenAI's chief scientist Ilya Sutskever, Adam D'Angelo, Tasha McCauley, Helen Toner and Sam Altman himself. He pointed out that even CEOs are "at-will employees," at US companies, but that OpenAI's board "behaved like a bunch of kids" and "erratically" in this instance. Most of OpenAI's board members don't own shares in the company, including Sam Altman himself who chose not to take any equity in, which ultimately limited his power and influence.

Persons: Sam Altman, ChatGPT, OpenAI's, —, Altman, Greg Brockman, Ilya Sutskever, Adam D'Angelo, Tasha McCauley, Helen Toner, Brockman, John Bates, It's, they've, Satya Nadella, Kara Swisher's, Bates, Marissa Mayer, X, Mayer, Mark Zuckerberg, Zuckerberg, what's Organizations: Microsoft, Service, Cambridge University, Google, Meta Locations: British

☆ Ilya Sutskever's U-turn on ousting Sam Altman came after Greg Brockman's wife cried and asked him to change his mind: WSJ
▼ + stars: | 2023-11-21 | by ( Kai Xiang Teo | ) www.businessinsider.com time to read: +3 min

OpenAI's Ilya Sutskever had a dramatic reversal regarding the ousting of his cofounder, Sam Altman. The U-turn came after an emotional plea from cofounder Greg Brockman's wife, the WSJ reported. His change of heart came after conversations with staff and with OpenAI cofounder Greg Brockman's wife, The Wall Street Journal reported, citing people familiar with the matter. Anna Brockman — who married Greg Brockman in 2019 — cried and pleaded with Sutskever to change his mind, per the WSJ. Anna Brockman did not immediately respond to a request for comment from Business Insider, sent through Greg Brockman and outside regular business hours.

Persons: OpenAI's Ilya Sutskever, Sam Altman, Greg Brockman's, Sutskever, —, Ilya Sutskever, OpenAI, we've, Anna Brockman —, Greg Brockman, It's, Altman, Greg, Anna Brockman's, @ilyasut, cfSvY7uniV — Greg Brockman, OpenAI's cofounders, Elon Musk, Satya Nadella, Brockman, Anna Brockman Organizations: Service, Street Journal, OpenAI, Twitter, Google, Microsoft, Business Locations: OpenAI

☆ Sam Altman's firing at OpenAI reflects schism over future of AI development
▼ + stars: | 2023-11-20 | by ( Greg Bensinger | Thomson Reuters | Greg Bensinger Joined Reuters As A Technology Correspondent In Focusing On The World'S Largest Technology Companies. He Was Previously A Member Of The New York Times Editorial Board | ) www.reuters.com time to read: +5 min

To many, he was considered the human face of generative AI. Those worries over generative AI came to a head with the surprise ousting of Altman, who was also OpenAI's cofounder. “Does the future then belong to the machines?”Sutskever reportedly felt Altman was pushing OpenAI’s software too quickly into users’ hands, potentially compromising safety. The fate of OpenAI is viewed by many technologists as critical to the development of AI. He advocated on social media in September for a "slowing down" of AI development.

Persons: Sam Altman, Altman, Ilya Sutskever, –, ”, Connor Leahy, Sutskever, OpenAI, Biden, Emmett Shear, Greg Bensinger, Kenneth Li, Matthew Lewis Organizations: FRANCISCO, Microsoft, European Union, Thomson Locations: OpenAI, San Francisco

The startup's newly appointed interim head moved quickly to dismiss speculation that OpenAI's board ousted Altman due to a spat over the safety of powerful AI models. It was not clear why Murati had stepped down as interim CEO. [1/4]Sam Altman, CEO of OpenAI, attends the Asia-Pacific Economic Cooperation (APEC) CEO Summit in San Francisco, California, U.S. November 16, 2023. Some of those joining Altman at Microsoft include senior researchers Szymon Sidor and Jakub Pachocki, according to Brockman. Microsoft had supported a return by Altman to the startup, according to sources, a move that seemed likely only hours prior to Monday's announcements.

Persons: OpenAI, Emmett Shear, Sam Altman, Greg Brockman, OpenAI's, Altman, Shear, Ilya Sutskever, we've, Sutskever, Mira Murati, reinstates Altman, Brockman, Bret Taylor, Will Hurd, Murati, Carlos Barria, Richard Windsor, Satya Nadella, Szymon Sidor, Jakub Pachocki, Russ Mould, AJ Bell, Nadella, Jeffry Dastin, Anna Tong, Krystal Hu, Akash Sriram, Aditya Soni, Urvi, Shubham, Stephanie Kelly, Nivedita Bhattacharjee, Miyoung Kim, Sam Holmes, Susan Fenton, Chizu Nomiyama, Anil D'Silva Organizations: Microsoft, FRANCISCO, Google, OpenAI, Reuters, Economic Cooperation, REUTERS, Radio Free Mobile, Thomson Locations: OpenAI, Texas, Asia, San Francisco , California, U.S, San Franciso, New York, Bengaluru

In a statement on the social media platform X, Shear dismissed speculation that OpenAI's board ousted Altman because of a spat over the safety of powerful AI models. OpenAI dismissed Altman on Friday following a "breakdown of communications," according to an internal memo seen by Reuters. [1/4]Sam Altman, CEO of OpenAI, attends the Asia-Pacific Economic Cooperation (APEC) CEO Summit in San Francisco, California, U.S. November 16, 2023. In a separate post on X, Altman shared Nadella's message with the words, "the mission continues". loadingThe decision not to reinstate Altman as OpenAI's chief confounded efforts by investors and employees to steady the startup's path.

Persons: OpenAI, Emmett Shear, Sam Altman, Shear, OpenAI's, Altman, Satya Nadella, Greg Brockman, Carlos Barria, Nadella, Szymon Sidor, Brockman, Richard Windsor, Ilya Sutskever, Jeffry Dastin, Anna Tong, Urvi, Stephanie Kelly, Nivedita Bhattacharjee, Miyoung Kim, Sam Holmes, Susan Fenton Organizations: Microsoft, OpenAI, Reuters, Economic Cooperation, REUTERS, The, Radio Free Mobile, Thomson Locations: Asia, San Francisco , California, U.S, San Francisco, OpenAI, San Franciso, Bengaluru, New York

Companies Microsoft Corp FollowOpenai LLC FollowNov 20 (Reuters) - Sam Altman will not return as the CEO of OpenAI and ex-Twitch boss Emmett Shear will become the new interim boss, The Information reported on Sunday, citing board director Ilya Sutskever's statement to the company's staff. The report said distraught employees "streamed out" of OpenAI headquarters in San Francisco shortly after the decision was announced internally. [1/2]Sam Altman, CEO of Microsoft-backed OpenAI and ChatGPT creator speaks during a talk at Tel Aviv University in Tel Aviv, Israel June 5, 2023. The appointment of Shear also means that Murati will not stay as the interim CEO, the report said. If Altman returns to OpenAI, Microsoft (MSFT.O), its biggest backer, is considering taking a role on the board, the Information reported on Sunday, citing two people familiar with the talks.

Persons: Sam Altman, Emmett Shear, Ilya Sutskever's, Altman, Sutskever, OpenAI, Amir Cohen, Rights Altman, Greg Brockman, Mira Murati, Shear, Brockman, Szymon Sidor, Sidor, Urvi Dugar, Stephanie Kelly, Nivedita Bhattacharjee, Miyoung Kim, Sam Holmes Organizations: Microsoft, Reuters, Tel Aviv University, REUTERS, Rights, Sunday, Amazon.com Inc, OpenAI, Thomson Locations: San Francisco, Tel Aviv, Israel, Bengaluru, New York

☆ Meet OpenAI cofounder Ilya Sutskever. He supported, then regretted ousting Sam Altman
▼ + stars: | 2023-11-20 | by ( Jordan Hart | Aaron Mok | ) www.businessinsider.com time to read: +1 min

Ilya Sutskever, chief scientist at OpenAI, has apologized for his role in Sam Altman's ousting. Sutskever and Altman co-founded OpenAI in 2016 with the help of Elon Musk. AdvertisementOpenAI's Ilya Sutskever — who cofounded OpenAI with Sam Altman in 2015 — played a role in kicking the now-former CEO out of the company. But a few days later, Sutskever expressed his remorse for being involved in ousting Altman. AdvertisementHere's how Sutskever went from working at Google to a leading role at OpenAI.

Persons: Ilya Sutskever, Sam Altman's, Sutskever, Altman, Elon Musk, —, Ilya Sutskever —, Sam Altman, appointes Altman Organizations: Elon, Service, Google Locations: OpenAI

☆ Sam Altman joins Microsoft as OpenAI taps Shear for interim CEO
▼ + stars: | 2023-11-20 | by ( Diksha Madhok | David Goldman | ) edition.cnn.com time to read: +5 min

New Delhi/New York CNN —Microsoft has hired Sam Altman to power up its artificial intelligence research efforts just days after the co-founder of OpenAI was ousted as CEO in a chaotic boardroom coup. Meanwhile, Emmett Shear, the former CEO of Amazon’s streaming service Twitch, will join OpenAI as interim CEO. “We look forward to getting to know Emmett Shear,” Microsoft CEO Satya Nadella said in a post on X, formerly known as Twitter. In a post on X early Monday, Shear described the chance to join OpenAI as “a once-in-a-lifetime” opportunity. More recently, Altman announced that OpenAI would make its tools widely available so anyone could create their own version of ChatGPT.

Persons: Sam Altman, OpenAI, Greg Brockman, Brockmann, Altman, Emmett Shear, Satya Nadella, ” Nadella, Shear, “, Brockman, Ilya Sutskever, Kara Swisher, Jony, Bing, Swisher, ’, OpenAI “, ”, “ I’m Organizations: New York CNN, Microsoft, OpenAI Locations: New Delhi, New York, Altman’s

☆ OpenAI cofounder and chief scientist says he deeply regrets participating in ousting Sam Altman
▼ + stars: | 2023-11-20 | by ( Jyoti Mann | ) www.businessinsider.com time to read: +3 min

OpenAI cofounder Ilya Sutskever expressed remorse for being involved in ousting Sam Altman. AdvertisementOpenAI cofounder and chief scientist Ilya Sutskever has expressed his "deep regret" in being part of the decision to oust Sam Altman. I never intended to harm OpenAI," Sutskever said in an X post Monday. Soon after the chief scientist's statement, Altman responded to his post with three heart emojis, seemingly signaling that there's no love lost between the pair. Sutskever is one of 490 OpenAI employees who signed an open letter calling for Altman to be reinstated, Wired reported.

Persons: Ilya Sutskever, Sam Altman, —, Sutskever, we've, Altman, OpenAI, wasn't, Satya Nadella, he's, Greg Brockman, OpenAI didn't Organizations: Service, Microsoft, Wired

☆ OpenAI's employees were given two explanations for why Sam Altman was fired. They're unconvinced and furious.
▼ + stars: | 2023-11-20 | by ( Kali Hays | ) www.businessinsider.com time to read: +5 min

OpenAI 's current independent board has offered two examples of the alleged lack of candor that led them to fire co-founder and CEO Sam Altman, sending the company into chaos. Staff had spent the day expecting to be told of the reinstatement of Altman as CEO. Sustkever is said to have offered two explanations he purportedly received from the board, according to one of the people familiar. One explanation was that Altman was said to have given two people at OpenAI the same project. These explanations didn't make sense to employees and were not received well, one of the people familiar said.

Persons: OpenAI, Sam Altman, Ilya Sutskever, Emmett Shear, Mira Murati, Altman, Shear, Sutskever, Sustkever, it's, Satya Nadella, Adam D'Angelo, Tasha McCauley, Helen Toner, Setskever, Greg Brockman, Murati, she's, Kali Hays Organizations: Twitch, Business, Staff, Google, OpenAI, Murati, Microsoft, Georgetown Center for Security, Emerging Technology, Twitter Locations: OpenAI's San Francisco, khays@insider.com, @hayskali

☆ OpenAI's wild weekend just upended the world of AI
▼ + stars: | 2023-11-20 | by ( Dan Defrancesco | ) www.businessinsider.com time to read: +6 min

NEW LOOK Sign up to get the inside scoop on today’s biggest stories in markets, tech, and business — delivered daily. download the app Email address Sign up By clicking “Sign Up”, you accept our Terms of Service and Privacy Policy . OpenAI, the hottest startup in the world thanks to its chatbot ChatGPT, fired Altman on Friday afternoon. AdvertisementBut according to reports over the weekend, OpenAI investors were scrambling to reinstate Altman before today's opening bell. Advertisement"The board no longer has confidence in his ability to continue leading OpenAI," the post went on to say.

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