Sam Altman is back at the helm of OpenAi with Microsoft’s blessing
The ousted CEO of OpenAI, Sam Altman, will return to manage the company he co-founded, after days of turbulence. All the details
There is no boredom in companies developing artificial intelligence technologies.
Just five days after his dismissal, Sam Altman returns to the helm of OpenAI, the company that developed the generative AI application ChatGpt.
OpenAI recalled its co-founder Sam Altman as CEO after firing him last Friday, prompting nearly all of OpenAI's 700-plus employees to threaten to resign on Monday unless the board resigned and reinstated Altman and Greg Brockman. , the president who had left the company in controversy.
Not only that, with the ouster of founder and CEO Sam Altman, OpenAI's board sent shockwaves throughout the industry and set in motion a chaotic series of events.
And now the developer of ChatGpt has done an about-face. The company itself communicated this, specifying that the parties are working to define the details.
The news has already been commented by Altman on X, the social platform formerly known as Twitter. “I love OpenAI, and everything I have done in the last few days has been to protect this team and its mission,” wrote the top manager, who after his dismissal was hired by the digital giant Microsoft to lead a research team on artificial intelligence together with Brockman (now also back).
So everyone is happy and contented. Also the new (now former) CEO of OpenAi Emmett Shear, co-founder of the streaming platform Twitch, appointed by the company on November 20th to succeed Sam Altman. In a post on
WHAT OPENAI WILL DO AFTER SAM ALTMAN RETURN
OpenAI reported that it had reached an agreement to return Altman to the helm of the company within days of his dismissal, ending frantic discussions over the future of the startup at the center of the artificial intelligence boom.
At the same time, the company also said that a new board of directors will be formed that will not include three of the four members who decided to fire Altman.
Former Salesforce co-CEO Bret Taylor and former US Treasury Secretary Larry Summers will join Quora CEO and current director Adam D'Angelo, the company wrote in a blog post.
WITH THE APPROVAL OF MICROSOFT
Additionally, Sam Altman announced that he has the support of Microsoft chief Satya Nadella for his return to lead OpenAI. “With Satya's new board and support, I look forward to returning to OpenAI and building on our strong partnership with (Microsoft),” Altman wrote on X.
Altman's firing had brought uncertainty for both OpenAI and Microsoft, the generative AI company's main investor. So much so that the Redmond giant had moved quickly to limit the damage of the affair over the weekend by promising to hire him and Greg Brockman, president of the startup.
Microsoft CEO Satya Nadella welcomed changes to OpenAI's board of directors, which led to the return of Sam Altman to the helm of the startup, just days after his dismissal. “We believe this is an essential first step towards more stable, well-informed and effective governance,” Nadella wrote on X.
This is a machine translation from Italian language of a post published on Start Magazine at the URL https://www.startmag.it/innovazione/sam-altman-e-tornato-alla-guida-di-openai-con-la-benedizione-di-microsoft/ on Wed, 22 Nov 2023 15:43:19 +0000.