Sam Altman, Silicon Valey figure and CEO of OpenAI, the organization behind chatbot ChatGPT, has been fired from his position by the board of directors.
Sam Altman was ousted on November 17 from OpenAI, the organization behind ChatGPT. He will leave the company’s board of directors and step down as CEO.
In an article published on the official OpenAI blogthe company writes that Sam Altman’s departure follows a ” deliberative review process by the board of directorsnot “. The latter concluded that the director in office “ was not always frank in his communications » with the other members of the board of directors, which “ hindered his ability to carry out his responsibilities. »
“ The board no longer has confidence in the ability [d’Altman] to continue leading OpenAI » we can read on the blog.
The new interim CEO of OpenAI will be Mira Murati. She previously served as chief technology officer at the organization. “ OpenAI was purposefully structured to advance our mission: to ensure that artificial general intelligence benefits all of humanity,” writes the board of directors.
The concrete reasons for his dismissal from OpenAI are unknown
“We believe new leadership is needed moving forward. As a leader of the company’s research, product and security functions, Mira is uniquely qualified to assume the role of interim CEO. We have the greatest confidence in his ability to lead OpenAI during this transition period », He added.
The OpenAI Board of Directors now consists of Ilya Sutskever, OpenAI Chief Scientist, Adam D’Angelo, CEO of Quora, Tasha McCauley, tech entrepreneur, and Helen Toner, director of strategy at the Center for Security and Emerging Technologies at Georgetown University.
We do not yet know the real nature of Sam Altman’s alleged errors and disagreements with management. This referral will raise a lot of questions given the technological and media impact of OpenAI over the past year. ChatGPT has been driving massive investments and ambitions in the AI field since its release.
The dismissal of Sam Altman comes at a surprising time, because the person concerned was still on the scene ten days ago, to host the first “OpenAI Dev Day” conference in history. On this occasion, several new features were announced, such as the new GPT-4 Turbo language model, personalized GPTs or even an expensive service for companies who wish to have a tailor-made language model.
Sam Altman also discussed the future of ChatGPT with GPT-5. On a less positive note, ChatGPT also had a significant disruption in November, due to pro-Russian hackers launching a cyberattack. The service was down for a while. The chatbot also interrupted the reception of new customers, faced with too much demand.
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