“I really think the world is going to rise to the occasion and everybody wants to do the right thing,” Altman said. He also acknowledged the need for guardrails. Just one day before his firing, he spoke at the Asia-Pacific Economic Cooperation conference in San Francisco where he argued that AI will be “the greatest leap forward of any of the big technological revolutions we’ve had so far”. Earlier this year he traveled on a 22-country tour in which he met with world leaders, including Rishi Sunak, Emmanuel Macron and Narendra Modi, among others. The launch of ChatGPT elevated his profile significantly – he has been called the father of ChatGPT and the “ Oppenheimer of our age”. He was recruited in 2014 to serve as the president of the startup accelerator Y Combinator but left in 2020 to focus on OpenAI. In the tradition of other tech founders before him, Altman dropped out of Stanford in 2005 to launch his social-networking app, Loopt, which he later sold for $43m. Photograph: Jim Lo Scalzo/EPAĪltman has long been viewed as a Silicon Valley wunderkind. Sam Altman speaks to the media after testifying in Washington as part of a hearing on how artificial intelligence should be regulated. He testified before the US Congress in May about what form AI legislation should take. He has been among the most vocal proponents of artificial intelligence, but has also led calls for regulation and warned that the technology comes with risks as it reshapes society. In 2019, however, OpenAI reshaped itself around a “capped profit” model with Altman as the CEO.Īfter releasing ChatGPT last year, Altman was thrust into the spotlight. Altman and Musk served as co-chairs with a goal “to advance digital intelligence in the way that is most likely to benefit humanity as a whole, unconstrained by a need to generate financial return”. The 38-year-old has led efforts to create “artificial general intelligence”, or AGI, an AI system capable of completing any task a human can achieve.Īltman helped found the company in 2015, initially as a non-profit with a $1bn endowment from high-profile backers including Elon Musk, Peter Thiel and LinkedIn co-founder Reid Hoffman. The generative AI chatbot accrued more than 100 million users in less than a year. OpenAI scheduled an emergency all-hands meeting on Friday afternoon to discuss the news with employees, a person familiar with the matter told Reuters.Īltman has been regarded as the leading voice in the AI field since his company released ChatGPT in November 2022. The announcement blindsided employees, many of whom learned of the sudden ouster from an internal announcement and the company’s public facing blog. “Based on today’s news, I quit,” he wrote.Īfter learning today’s news, this is the message I sent to the OpenAI team: /8x39P0ejOM- Greg Brockman November 18, 2023 Greg Brockman will step down from his role as the chair of the board but will retain his other position as OpenAI president, according to the statement.īrockman announced his departure on social media on Friday. Murati has been a part of the San Francisco-based company’s leadership for five years. Mira Murati, OpenAI’s CTO, will become interim CEO in his place, according to the statement.

will have more to say about what’s next later,” he wrote. most of all i loved working with such talented people. it was transformative for me personally, and hopefully the world a little bit. What Altman had allegedly hidden from his company’s board was not clear.Īltman tweeted a sunny message after the combative announcement. Altman’s departure follows a deliberative review process by the board, which concluded that he was not consistently candid in his communications with the board, hindering its ability to exercise its responsibilities,” the board’s statement said.

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