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700 of OpenAI’s 770 employees have signed a letter expressing their willingness to leave the company if Sam Altman does not regain his position as CEO. Altman is
700 of OpenAI’s 770 employees have signed a letter expressing their willingness to leave the company if Sam Altman does not regain his position as CEO. Altman is said to have accepted a job offer from Microsoft boss Satya Nadella.
OpenAI is in danger of losing almost all of its employees. 700 of the ChatGPT maker’s 770 employees have signed a letter saying they will consider leaving if Sam Altman doesn’t reprise his role as CEO.
To everyone’s surprise, Altman was removed from his post following a board coup carried out behind the back of Chairman Greg Brockman, who immediately resigned in solidarity. The plan for the coup is said to have come from co-founder and board member Ilya Sutskever. He has now signed the letter himself. “I deeply regret my involvement in the board’s actions,” he wrote on X.
I deeply regret that I participated in the board’s actions. I never intended to harm OpenAI. I love everything we’ve built together and I’ll do everything I can to reunite the company.
— Ilya Sutskever (@ilyasut) November 20, 2023
Investors, including Microsoft, were unhappy with Altman’s firing and tried to facilitate his return last weekend, but those talks fell through. CEO Satya Nadella then indicated that Microsoft would accommodate Altman and his colleagues. Altman would run an AI lab there that would accommodate Brockman and any other defectors.
It is unclear what will happen next. If there was a way for Altman to come back and pick up the pieces at OpenAI, chances are good that Microsoft wouldn’t stand in his way. Although the company would undoubtedly like to put the AI expert and his confidants on its own payroll, Microsoft also has a 49 percent stake in OpenAI and has already invested $13 billion in the company. It seems unlikely that OpenAI can handle a talent drain.
OpenAI has a very strange structure that clearly reaches its limits here. OpenAI itself is a commercial company, but is run by a non-profit organization. The board of this non-profit organization is not represented by the major investors, who in fact have no formal say in the board’s decisions about OpenAI. This soap opera is based on different views on the role of AI, commercial interests and the possible danger of the technology.
Source: IT Daily
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