Sam Altman returns to OpenAI board months after crisis
Sam Altman will return to the board of OpenAI, the company said on Friday, just months after a boardroom dustup that saw him fired and rehired by the company behind ChatGPT.
Altman was also found to have been wrongly fired in an internal investigation that was launched in the days after his chaotic dismissal last year, the company said.
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They will join Ex-Salesforce co-CEO Bret Taylor and former US Treasury Secretary Larry Summers, who joined in the immediate aftermath of the November 2023 tumult.
Microsoft also gained an observer seat on OpenAI's board at the time, a move that drew criticism and a lawsuit from Elon Musk earlier this week, who helped found OpenAI in 2015 before leaving the project.
«I am excited to welcome Sue, Nicole, and Fidji to the OpenAI Board of Directors,» said Bret Taylor, chair of the OpenAI board.
«Their experience and leadership will… ensure that we pursue OpenAI's mission of ensuring artificial general intelligence benefits all of humanity,» he added.
Quora CEO Adam D'Angelo is the sole holdover
