Altman and Brockman have new jobs. Microsoft will benefit from the OpenAI storm. And Elon Musk is joking

On Friday, OpenAI’s board of directors unexpectedly announced the firing of its CEO, co-founder and one of the leading figures in the AI ​​world, Sam Altman. At the same time, it was decided to demote and remove from the management board another co-founder, Greg Brockman, who himself resigned from OpenAI a few hours later.

Microsoft may benefit from OpenAI’s problems. Altman already has a new job

but the final decision was to permanently end the cooperation. However, the OpenAI co-founder didn’t have to look for a job for long. Just a few hours later, Satya Nadella, CEO of Microsoft, announced that both Altman and Brockman would join the creators of Windows.

Nadella noted in a post on Portal X that Microsoft “remains committed to working with OpenAI and has confidence in its product development plan.” The company is the largest and one of the key investors in the AI ​​organization and has already confirmed that it does not intend to withdraw from cooperation. The Microsoft CEO added that he looks forward to “meeting and working with the new OpenAI CEO, Emmett Shear, and his team.”

Nadella also announced that Sam Altman and Greg Brockman “along with their colleagues” are joining Microsoft. Both men will lead a completely new research team working on “advanced artificial intelligence”. However, the head of the technology giant did not specify who exactly OpenAI will also join Microsoft. Brockman commented on the post, saying that he and Altman wanted to “build something new and it will be amazing.”

Altman added that “the mission will continue.”

Commentators predict the end of OpenAI. And Musk is joking

Some experts and commentators believe that the firing of Sam Altman from OpenAI is an event comparable to forcing Steve Jobs to leave Apple in 1985 (Jobs later returned to the company). Others note that Microsoft can greatly benefit from AI problems by taking over Altman and Brockman and perhaps a significant part of the great engineers and scientists who have been associated with OpenAI so far.

Some people (including three Poles – research director Jakub Pachocki, head of the AI ​​threats team Aleksander Mądry and Szymon Sidor, who had been associated with Open AI for seven years) announced their departure from the company as a gesture of solidarity with Altman and Brockman. Others may decide to leave in the future to work for Microsoft. There is certainly no shortage of money for development at such a powerful giant as Microsoft, and “aggressive search for investors” was said to be one of the reasons for Altman’s dismissal from OpenAI.

Elon Musk, one of the co-founders of OpenAI (who has not been associated with the organization for years) and the owner of the X portal, also jokingly commented on the post of the Microsoft CEO. “Now they will have to use Teams!” – he wrote, referring to Microsoft’s video messenger.

OpenAI is an American research laboratory founded in 2015, initially operating as a non-profit organization (currently divided into the OpenAI Incorporated organization and the commercial OpenAI Limited Partnership). OpenAI’s goal is to promote and develop artificial intelligence. In November 2022, the company released the ChatuGPT prototype, which was the first such large-scale intelligent chatbot and significantly accelerated the development of generative artificial intelligence. OpenAI was founded by nine investors (including Sam Altman and Greg Brockman), who invested one billion dollars in the development of the organization, and nine scientists (including a Pole, Wojciech Zaremba).