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The OpenAI board is in discussions with Sam Altman to return to the company as its CEO, according to multiple people familiar with the matter. One of them said Altman, who was suddenly fired by the board on Friday with no notice, is \u201cambivalent\u201d about coming back and would want significant governance changes.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n
Update, 5:35PM PT: <\/strong>A source close to Altman says the board had agreed in principle to resign and to allow Altman and Brockman to return, but has since waffled \u2014 missing a key 5PM PT deadline by which many OpenAI staffers were set to resign. If Altman decides to leave and start a new company, those staffers would assuredly go with him.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n Altman holding talks with the company just a day after he was ousted indicates that OpenAI is in a state of free-fall without him. Hours after he was axed, Greg Brockman, OpenAI\u2019s president and former board chairman, resigned, and the two have been talking to friends and investors about starting another company. A string of senior researchers also resigned on Friday, and people close to OpenAI say more departures are in the works.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n Altman is \u201cambivalent\u201d about coming back<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n OpenAI\u2019s largest investor, Microsoft, said in a statement shortly after Altman\u2019s firing that the company \u201cremains committed\u201d to its partnership with the AI firm. However, OpenAI\u2019s investors weren\u2019t given advance warning or opportunity to weigh in on the board\u2019s decision to remove Altman. As the face of the company and the most prominent voice in AI, his removal throws the future of OpenAI into uncertainty at a time when rivals are racing to catch up with the unprecedented rise of ChatGPT.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n A spokesperson for OpenAI didn\u2019t respond to a request for comment about Altman discussing a return with the board. A Microsoft spokesperson declined to comment.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n OpenAI\u2019s current board consists of chief scientist Ilya Sutskever, Quora CEO Adam D\u2019Angelo, former GeoSim Systems CEO Tasha McCauley, and Helen Toner, the director of strategy at Georgetown\u2019s Center for Security and Emerging Technology. Unlike traditional companies, the board isn\u2019t tasked with maximizing shareholder value, and none of them hold equity in OpenAI. Instead, their stated mission is to ensure the creation of \u201cbroadly beneficial\u201d artificial general intelligence, or AGI.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n Sutskever, who also co-founded OpenAI and leads its researchers, was instrumental in the ousting of Altman this week, according to multiple sources. His role in the coup suggests a power struggle between the research and product sides of the company, the sources say.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n[ad_2]\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" [ad_1] The OpenAI board is in discussions with Sam Altman to return to the company as its CEO, according to multiple people familiar with the matter. One of them said Altman, who was suddenly fired by the board on Friday with no notice, is \u201cambivalent\u201d about coming back and would want significant governance changes. Update, …<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":11875,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/farratanews.online\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11874"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/farratanews.online\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/farratanews.online\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/farratanews.online\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/farratanews.online\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=11874"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/farratanews.online\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11874\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/farratanews.online\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/11875"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/farratanews.online\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=11874"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/farratanews.online\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=11874"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/farratanews.online\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=11874"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}