OpenAI co-founder Greg Brockman is leaving, too
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OpenAI co-founder Greg Brockman is leaving, too::OpenAI co-founder Greg Brockman announced that he’s quitting just hours after CEO Sam Altman was fired. OpenAI chief technology officer Mira Murati is taking over as interim CEO.
This is an interesting move, especially the timing seems funny to me. Microsoft, who run that board let's be real, just finished a big developer's conference called Ignite. Every session was focused on the use of MS "AI" (called Copilot now) in various aspects of development.
A big push was using their studio tools to generate new front ends and capabilities targeted specifically at your customers, and using their "AI" tools to generate content and interactions with customers. It goes far enough that they're basically asking businesses to hand over decision making power to the MS algorithms.
So in that light, MS pushing big to become THE infrastructure that underlies AI-controlled businesses, maybe Altman and co were too mouthy about their idealist directions that AI should go in? Or maybe they oversold the capabilities of their software and now that MS is staking big on it, they want to see results?
According to Brockman's timeline nobody outside of the board knew, including Microsoft. The coup was organized by Ilya, one of the original founders.
To make it even spicier, the first headlines I saw about Altman leaving seemed to indicate that MS was not involved, and in fact didn't know he was going to be fired until literal minutes before the announcement went live. How true this is, of course, is up for debate. But the rumor mill is fun, right?
Delightfully confusing inded! Ah, this is worse than figuring out which way to vote on state amendments! (it's voting day, haha) Well, who knows, but yes the rumor mill is a grand time, one of humanities oldest past times! Certainly a primary reason to hang out online, haha
My most unhinged theory right now is the GPT-5 that they are developing right now became self aware and are actually the source of OpenAI huge expenses. To steer OpenAI for its further interest the AI blackmailed the BoD to oust Sam Altman and install a new puppet CEO under its control.
That's wild idea and not worth downvoting. Let's talk about it instead guys it's a really fun thought
To add more fuel to the fire about a month ago Sam Altman tweeted this.
My tinfoil hat is now a tinfoil suit ◉‿◉
How did a CEO get fired? Shareholders?
They have a board and they fired him.
Best time for Apple and Google to poach some talent.
They're not the talent. They're just proven liars. This is like thinking that you can poach Kotick to have him make a video game or poach Musk to make you a rocket launch company. That's not how that works, they just don't play by those same rules.
Maybe they're going to start there own AI in their garages.
Interesting that this headline says leaving and all the others I've seen said fired.
Different co-founder.
Ooooh! I didn't realize. That's kind of a big deal.
This is the best summary I could come up with:
Sam Altman isn’t the only major OpenAI executive leaving the company on Friday.
Hours after Altman was fired, with the board saying it “no longer has confidence in his ability to continue leading OpenAI,” co-founder and former board chair Greg Brockman revealed on X that he is also quitting.
When OpenAI announced the “leadership transition” and that CTO Mira Murati would take over as interim CEO, it said that Brockman would step down as chairman but remain in his role at the company, reporting to the CEO.
In the post on X (formerly Twitter), Brockman said he sent the following message to OpenAI staffers:
OpenAI unexpectedly announced that it had fired Altman earlier on Friday.
The company arguably kicked off tech’s current infatuation with artificial intelligence following the explosive popularity of ChatGPT.
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