An excerpt from the upcoming e-book “The Optimist: Sam Altman, OpenAI, and the Race to Invent the Future” affords new particulars about why OpenAI’s board briefly fired CEO Sam Altman again in 2023.
Written by Wall Road Journal reporter Keach Hagey, the e-book claims the nonprofit’s board members grew to become more and more involved after studying about points akin to an OpenAI Startup Fund that was really personally owned by Altman.
On the similar time, co-founder Ilya Sutskever and CTO Mira Murati have been reportedly amassing proof of what they noticed as Altman’s poisonous and dishonest habits, full with screenshots from Murati’s Slack channel. For instance, Altman allegedly claimed the corporate’s authorized division stated GPT-4 Turbo didn’t must be reviewed by the joint security board, however the firm’s prime lawyer denied saying that.
After Sutskever supplied this proof to board members, they moved to oust Altman and appoint Murati as interim CEO. However this rapidly backfired, with OpenAI workers (together with Sutskever and Murati) signing a letter demanding Altman’s return — which he quickly did, with Sutskever and Murati subsequently leaving to launch startups of their very own.