Sam Altman back as OpenAI CEO; Microsoft to take non-voting, observer position on board
Microsoft will take a non-voting, observer position on OpenAI's board, the ChatGPT owner's newly reinstated CEO Sam Altman said on Wednesday.
Microsoft, one of the artificial intelligence startup's main backers, was not immediately available for comment.
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Mira Murati, who had been OpenAI's chief technology officer and was briefly named interim CEO after Altman's ouster, is once again the company's CTO, Altman said in his first official missive after taking back the reins of the company.
OpenAI ousted Altman on Nov. 17 without any detailed cause, setting off alarm bells among investors and employees. He was reinstated four days later with the promise of a new board.
Altman's exit sparked confusion about the future of the startup at the center of an artificial intelligence boom.
His co-founder Greg Brockman, who had followed Altman out of the company, would return as president, Altman said on Wednesday.
«Greg and I are partners in running this company. We have never quite figured out how to communicate that on the org chart, but we will,» Altman said. OpenAI's chief scientist Ilya Sutskever will no longer be part of the board, Altman said.
Sutskever had joined in the effort to fire Altman but later signed an employee letter demanding his return, expressing
