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Boss of ChatGPT inventor OpenAI has to go
Was the public face of OpenAI and is no longer there: Sam Altman. photo
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Surprising leadership change at OpenAI: Sam Altman removed, Mira Murati takes over on an interim basis. What is behind the withdrawal of trust?
There is a surprising change in management at the developer company behind the popular chatbot ChatGPT. The board of directors of OpenAI withdrew the trust of co-founder and company director Sam Altman.
Altman was not honest in his communication with the board, it said in a statement. Altman has been the public face of OpenAI and was in the spotlight at the company’s first developer conference just a few days ago.
Technology boss Mira Murati will temporarily take over the top position while the permanent successor is to be arranged.
The chatbot ChatGPT can formulate sentences at the linguistic level of a human. Its publication around a year ago sparked a hype about artificial intelligence. OpenAI has thus become a pioneer in the technology. Microsoft entered into a multi-billion dollar pact with the company to bring its technology into the company’s products.