OpenAI Board Removes CEO Sam Altman: Explore The Timeline Of Events
On Friday, OpenAI’s board announced Sam Altman’s departure as CEO and appointed CTO Mira Murati as interim leader.
“The board of directors of OpenAI, Inc, the 501(c)(3) that acts as the overall governing body for all OpenAI activities, today announced that Sam Altman will depart as CEO and leave the board of directors. Mira Murati, the company’s chief technology officer, will serve as interim CEO, effective immediately.”
OpenAI and Microsoft have made headlines in the tech industry in the last two weeks.
On November 6, at DevDay, Altman introduced custom GPTs and a monetized GPT store. Microsoft CEO Satya Nadella joined him to announce a deeper partnership.
On November 15, Microsoft announced the integration of GPTs and plugins into its services.
On November 19, the OpenAI board removed Altman as CEO.
On November 20, Nadella announced Altman, Brockman, and other OpenAI colleagues would join Microsoft.
In addition, most OpenAI employees have signed a letter asking the board to resign.
Catch up on the events from when the shakeup started or live blogging coverage to find out what happens next.
6:13 PM ETNov 20, 2023
Nadella: Maintaining Partnerships With OpenAI And Altman, Excited About Future AI Innovations
On Bloomberg Live, Nadella reassured that Microsoft is still partnered with OpenAI and with Sam Altman, irrespective of what company Altman is with.
Nadella remains confident in Altman’s leadership capability and welcomes him to Microsoft to lead the new AI research team.
To continue its partnership with OpenAI, Microsoft would want governance changes at OpenAI to ensure there are no more “surprises.”
Nadella welcomes dialog about AI safety and celebrates both the innovations democratizing AI access to people globally and enhancing the guardrails against the risks.
5:12 PM ETNov 20, 2023
Bloomberg To Interview Satya Nadella Soon - Discussion On X
Salesforce will match any OpenAI researcher who has tendered their resignation full cash & equity OTE to immediately join our Salesforce Einstein Trusted AI research team under Silvio Savarese. Send me your cv directly to ceo@salesforce.com. Einstein is the most successful… pic.twitter.com/1RXoc9ekeo
Former GitHub CEO Reportedly Declined Interim OpenAI CEO
Scoop: Nat Friedman, the former CEO of GitHub, was asked to be Interim CEO of OpenAI yesterday. He declined. Later Sunday, OpenAI announced that Twitch co-founder Emmett Shear would take over as Interim CEO.https://t.co/JmDW7OsfAQ
Yesterday, Sunday, while today and the rest of week is OpenAI company holiday, many people came to the office from everywhere cancelling their vacay just to show up to be the moral support for Sam & Greg and our leadership team. This is who we are. pic.twitter.com/7EfT8FbOy8
Cannot overstate the level of pride & respect I feel for @miramurati@bradlightcap@jasonkwon and the rest of the leadership team for their response to this crisis.
About 650 / 770 signed at this moment. As people start waking up, more will come. All the efforts started after 1:30 AM, 500+ within two hours and all of this after 2 crazy days with very little sleep.
Participants in an X space discussing the OpenAI saga brought up an interesting theory.
Quora’s Poe – founded by OpenAI board member Adam D’Angelo – introduced the ability to create custom bots with OpenAI models, including ChatGPT, a few months ago.
Today we are launching creator monetization for Poe! This program lets any bot creator on Poe generate revenue. This is a major step forward for the platform and is the first program of its kind, so we are very excited to see what it lets everyone create. (thread) pic.twitter.com/feLjB62hYo
November 6, at DevDay, Altman introduced custom GPTs and an upcoming monetized GPT store.
November 15, Microsoft announced the integration of GPTs and plugins.
November 19, the OpenAI board removed Altman as CEO.
November 20, Nadella announced Altman, Brockman, and other OpenAI colleagues to join Microsoft.
Screenshot from Poe, November 2023
12:17 PM ETNov 20, 2023
OpenAI Employees "Are United" Against The Board
Everyone at @OpenAI is united against the board's actions. This is not a civil war. It's an entire company versus a couple out of touch board members. https://t.co/d8rDZyFNy0
OpenAI Offering Reassurance To Developers And Customers
In case it isn’t clear: all of our services (i.e. our API and ChatGPT) are still being actively maintained and monitored. Folks have actually stepped up to ensure duplicate on-call coverage during this time to make sure the customer experience is still stable and reliable. https://t.co/BVb3xiLFE0
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