OpenAI CEO Sam Altman was fired by the company’s board late Friday behind ChatGPT, which caused shock waves in the US tech industry.
He has been replaced by Chief Technology Officer Meira Murthy as Interim CEO.
The announcement blinded many employees who detected a sudden administrative change from the internal announcement and the company’s public-facing blog.
“Altman’s departure came after a deliberate review by the board، Which concluded that they were not permanently clear in their discussions with the board, hindered its ability to exercise its responsibilities,” Open AI said in the blog without explanation.
Greg Brockman, president and co-founder of OpenAI, who resigned from the board as part of the management change, left the company، He announced late Friday on messaging platform X. “Based on today’s news, I left,” he wrote.
With billions of dollars in support from Microsoft, OpenAI launched the Generative AI Madness last November by releasing its ChatGPT chat boot، Which became one of the fastest growing software applications in the world.
Trained on data reams, Generative AI can create brand new human-like content, allowing users to spin trim papers، Science helps complete homework and even write the whole novel. Since the launch of ChatGPT, regulators have made a fuss to catch: The European Union unspecified revision of its AI Act and the United States initiated AI regulation efforts.
Altman, who operated Y Combinator, is a serial entrepreneur and investor. He toured the world this year when he was the face of OpenAI and wildly popular creative AI technology.
Altman posted on X immediately after publishing OpenAI’s blog: “I loved my time at OpenI۔ It was a personal change for me, and hopefully the world is a bit. Most of all, I loved working with such talented people۔ More to say about what will happen next.”
Altman did not return requests for comment. OpenAI was not accessible for further comment.
Murati, who has previously worked for Tesla, joined OpenAI in 2018 and later became the company’s chief technology officer. It monitored product launches, including ChatGPT.
In an emergency all-hand meeting on Friday afternoon after the announcement، Murati sought to calm employees down and said that OpenAI’s partnership with Microsoft was strong and that its supporting executives, including CEO Satya Nadella, A person familiar with the matter told Reuters to continue expressing confidence in the startup.
The information provided details of the first meeting.
“A spokesman for the software company told Reuters on Friday، “Microsoft is committed to me and their team as we take this next round of AI to our customers.
In a statement posted on Microsoft’s website, Nadella added: “We have a long-term agreement with OpenAI … Together we will continue to bring the meaningful benefits of this technology to the world.”
