Emmett Shear new CEO of OpenAI: A timeline of Sam Altman’s ousting
On Nov. 17, the artificial intelligence (AI) startup OpenAI made the shock announcement that it had fired CEO Sam Altman — and reaffirmed that decision on Nov. 19 with the hiring of Twitch co-founder Emmett Shear as the new CEO.
In the days between, the tech world reeled, Altman’s colleagues rallied to his side, then-OpenAI president and co-founder Greg Brockman also quit, and OpenAI’s board of directors held talks to possibly reinstate Altman while facing enormous public backlash from shareholders and employees.
Here’s what’s happened so far.
According to an X (formerly Twitter) post from Brockman, OpenAI chief scientist Ilya Sutskever sent Altman a message on Thursday evening to schedule a meeting for Friday afternoon.
Sam and I are shocked and saddened by what the board did today.
Let us first say thank you to all the incredible people who we have worked with at OpenAI, our customers, our investors, and all of those who have been reaching out.
We too are still trying to figure out exactly…
Additionally, he claimed that OpenAI chief technology officer Mira Murati was made aware that Altman would be fired that evening.
Just after midday on Nov. 17, Brockman said Sutskever texted him, asking him to jump on a call. After joining the call a few minutes later, he was informed he was being removed from OpenAI’s board of directors but would maintain his role as president and that Altman had been fired.
OpenAI published a blog post stating Altman had been fired due to not being “consistently candid in his communications with the board,” adding Murati would be taking over as interim CEO.
OpenAI announces leadership transition https://t.co/fFYDLwGXQz
Microsoft, the largest investor and partner in OpenAI, issued a statement concerning
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