The success story of Open AI could come to an abrupt end due to a coup by four supervisors: the workforce is threatened with a mass exodus after Altman’s departure, investors are worried – and now another key figure is defecting.
Ilya Sutskever defected. Of all people, Sutskever. The artificial intelligence (AI) expert once worked at Google and was brought into the founding team of Open AI by Elon Musk. He is considered the brains behind the company’s technology and therefore also behind Chat-GPT. Open AI’s chatbot sparked the AI hype a year ago.