Sam Altman: Fired as OpenAI CEO, Hired to Lead Microsoft's New AI Team
Here's everything you need to know about Sam Altman's firing from OpenAI.
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Last Friday OpenAI’s CEO Sam Altman got fired.
There were rumors that the board would reinstate Sam Altman as CEO, but today Emmett Shear, the co-founder of Twitch, was named the new CEO of OpenAI, and Sam Altman, together with colleagues, will be joining Microsoft to lead a new advanced AI research team.
Here’s how all this happened.
It all started with a text from Ilya Sutskever
OpenAI’s board consisted of six members: Greg Brockman (…
