New twist in artificial intelligence. Ousted less than a week ago from OpenAI, creator of the conversational robot ChatGPT, its co-founder Sam Altman is back home… He is returning as general manager. An announcement which is not unrelated to the strong pressure which had been exerted by employees and investors on the board of directors of OpenAI. Greg Brockman, co-founder, is also returning to the company.
On Monday, hundreds of employees of the firm, including Ilya Sutskever, member of the same board, signed a letter affirming that if the board still in place did not resign and did not bring Sam Altman back within the company, the The overwhelming majority of the workforce would go to work with him at Microsoft. The same day, the software giant declared that it had immediately recruited Sam Altman and other “heads” from OpenAI with a view to creating a “ new advanced AI research team “.
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“An essential first step for more stable governance”
The board of directors will also be strengthened. Former Salesforce executive Bret Taylor and former Treasury Secretary Larry Summers will join the OpenAI board, announced the start-up in which Microsoft has already invested more than $10 billion. “ We work together to iron out the details. thank you very much for your patience », Said OpenAI in a post on X.
A decision also welcomed by Satya Nadella, CEO of Microsoft: “ We believe this is an essential first step in establishing more stable, better informed and more effective governance.he wrote on X, We look forward to building on the foundation of our strong partnership and delivering the value of this next generation of AI to our customers and partners. »
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