Technology company reversed its decision to dismiss the executive and presented the names of its new board
After being suddenly fired last Friday (17), Sam Altman is back as CEO of OpenAI, the company that created ChatGPT.
The information was given by the company’s official profile on X (formerly Twitter) this Wednesday (22). According to them, Altman will have a new board, made up of Bret Taylor, president of the company; Larry Summers, economist and former US Treasury Secretary and Adam D’Angelo, CEO of Quora.
Another name that is back in OpenAI is Greg Brockman, co-founder of the company who had resigned as chairman of the board in solidarity with Altman.
Both executives spoke about their returns on their X accounts. Altman used his profile to state that “with the new board and the support of Satya Nadella, I look forward to returning to OpenAI and developing a strong partnership with Microsoft”, a company that it even hired him on Sunday (19) to lead an Artificial Intelligence team and which is one of OpenAI’s main investors.
J Brockman posted a photo with the team with the caption “we’re back.”
Understand the history
The announcement of Altman’s dismissal on Friday took company employees by surprise.
According to the note that had been published by OpenIA, the CEO’s dismissal took place after a deliberative review by the board that concluded that the executive was not “consistently sincere” in communications, “impairing his ability to exercise his responsibilities”.
Furthermore, the document also pointed out that the board no longer trusted Altman’s ability to continue leading OpenAI. Along with the CEO’s resignation, the company had also announced that Greg Brockman would step down as chairman of the board, but that he would remain in his executive role at the company, reporting to interim CEO, Mira Murati, director of technology.
Subsequently, Brockman resigned from his role in Altamn solidarity.
After the announcement, company employees released a letter pointing out the OpenAI board’s “fuck” in Altman’s dismissal and threatened a collective departure if Altman and Brockman did not return to the board and the other members of the group did not resign.