The company that created ChatGPT has said goodbye to two of its co-founders in recent days. Sam Altman was fired as OpenAI’s CEO, and Greg Brockman was demoted as president because he did not agree to the new terms and left the company himself.
Poles are leaving OpenAI. A gesture of solidarity with Sam Altman
As a gesture of solidarity with Altman, three Poles left the company – reports the website “The Information”, quoted by . The people who left the job were: Jakub Pachocki, who was the research director of OpenAI, Aleksander Mądry, who led the team assessing potential threats related to artificial intelligence, and Szymon Sidor, a graduate of the University of Cambridge and MIT, who had been associated with the organization for seven years.
Earthquake at OpenAI. Will Microsoft reinstate Altman?
reached OpenAI and Microsoft employees, who admitted that the company’s management reshuffle “completely shocked” them. As they explained, they learned about them from a statement on the OpenAI website. Representatives of Microsoft, the main investor of OpenAI, were also surprised.
Officially, Microsoft says it supports its partner’s new leader. “We have a long-term agreement with OpenAI with full access to everything we need to execute our innovation program,” said Satya Nadella, Microsoft CEO, quoted in the statement. – Together we will continue to provide the world with the significant benefits of this (AI – ed.) technology – he emphasized. According to unofficial reports, Nadella took the news of Altman’s dismissal very badly. He was supposedly surprised and angry, reports Bloomberg.
According to Bloomberg, Microsoft may play a key role in trying to get Altman back to work. Soon after the information about the dismissal, reports began to appear about the possible return of the former general director to his position. As reported by theverge.com, the OpenAI management board has already started talks with Altman on this subject. On Saturday, Forbes also reported that investors plan to reinstate Altman as CEO.
Source: Gazeta
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