Sam Altman returns to OpenAI board, says ‘can't wait to show what's next’
OpenAI CEO Sam Altman will return to the board of the company which is behind popular artificial intelligence (AI) chatbot ChatGPT. The development comes after a boardroom drama that saw Altman being fired in November last year.
Altman will join the board with three new directors – Sue Desmond-Hellmann, former CEO of the Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation; Nicole Seligman, former president of Sony Entertainment; and Fidji Simo, CEO of Instacart.
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Offering CollegeCourseWebsiteIIM LucknowIIML Executive Programme in FinTech, Banking & Applied Risk ManagementVisitIndian School of BusinessISB Professional Certificate in Product ManagementVisitIndian School of BusinessISB Product ManagementVisit«I am excited to welcome Sue, Nicole, and Fidji to the OpenAI Board of Directors,» said Bret Taylor, chair of the OpenAI board.
They will join ex-Salesforce co-CEO Bret Taylor and former US Treasury Secretary Larry Summers.
«I'm very happy to welcome our new board members: Fidji Simo, Sue Desmond-Hellmann, and Nicole Seligman, and to continue to work with Bret, Larry, and Adam, Altman posted on microblogging platform X (formerly Twitter).
“I'm thankful to everyone on our team for being resilient (a great openai skill!) and staying focused during a challenging time,” he added.
Altman also thanked OpenAI's CTO Mira Murati for “her leadership during the drama” and Greg Brockman who plays “a special leadership role without which OpenAI would simply not exist.”
“I learned a lot
