Meanwhile, Emmett Shear, co-founder and ex-CEO of Twitch, was appointed head of OpenAI.
This weekend’s talks, which followed the surprise ouster of Sam Altman as OpenAI CEO, ended with the appointment of a new leader — Emmet Shear, known as the co-founder and chief of Twitch, will become the interim CEO of the ChatGPT development company.
Shire’s unexpected appointment came after four people from the board refused to resign immediately demanding Altman’s return. Under pressure from investors and the threat of mass layoffs of employees who expressed support for Sam on social networks, the board of directors decided to consider his reinstatement as head.
Meanwhile, on Saturday, the rest of the board missed a deadline set by Altman’s support group by failing to reinstate either Sam or board chairman Greg Brockman. On Sunday, employees were formally informed of the CEO’s dismissal, with the wording that the decision was “the only path” to achieving the company’s mission of “broadly useful” artificial intelligence. The board also said Sam had not been “consistently forthcoming in his communications.”
Altman visited OpenAI’s offices on Sunday, noting that it was the “first and last time” he visited the building as a guest – hinting that he would either become an executive again or never return to the company.
OpenAI’s board includes Quora CEO Adam D’Angelo, former GeoSim Systems CEO Tashi McCauley, Georgetown Center for Security and Emerging Technologies chief strategy officer Helen Toner, and OpenAI chief scientist Ilya Sutskever, a native of Nizhny Novgorod in Russia, who played a leading role in the dismissal. Altman.
Shear’s appointment as CEO of the world’s most famous artificial intelligence company comes as a surprise, given that he is not considered a leader in the field. In March, Emmett left Twitch ahead of mass layoffs (since 2014, the live streaming service has been owned by Amazon, which bought it for $1 billion).
Meanwhile, Microsoft CEO Satya Nadella announcedthat both Altman and Brockman will join the corporation to lead a new advanced AI research group.
“We remain committed to our partnership with OpenAI and are confident in our product roadmap, our ability to continue to innovate with everything we announced at Microsoft Ignite, and in our continued support of our customers and partners. We look forward to getting to know Emmett Shear and the new leadership team. “We are thrilled to share the news that Sam Altman and Greg Brockman, along with colleagues, will be joining Microsoft to lead a new cutting-edge AI research group.”
Altman, meanwhile, reposted Nadelli’s message with a brief comment: “The mission continues.”
OpenAI’s profile has skyrocketed since the launch of ChatGPT about a year ago. Altman previously announced that the chatbot has more than 100 million weekly users, making it one of the fastest-growing services in history.
2023-11-20 08:32:29
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