I’m returning to OpenAI as CEO. Mira will return to her position as CTO. The brand new preliminary board will encompass Bret Taylor (Chair), Larry Summers, and Adam D’Angelo.
I’ve by no means been extra excited concerning the future. I’m extraordinarily grateful for everybody’s onerous work in an unclear and unprecedented state of affairs, and I consider our resilience and spirit set us aside within the trade. I really feel so, so good about our likelihood of success for attaining our mission.
Earlier than attending to what comes subsequent, I’d prefer to share some thanks.
I like and respect Ilya, I feel he’s a guiding gentle of the sector and a gem of a human being. I harbor zero sick will in the direction of him. Whereas Ilya will now not serve on the board, we hope to proceed our working relationship and are discussing how he can proceed his work at OpenAI.
I’m grateful to Adam, Tasha, and Helen for working with us to come back to this resolution that finest serves the mission. I’m excited to proceed to work with Adam and am sincerely grateful to Helen and Tasha for investing an enormous quantity of effort on this course of.
Thanks additionally to Emmett who had a key and constructive position in serving to us attain this final result. Emmett’s dedication to AI security and balancing stakeholders’ pursuits was clear.
Mira did a tremendous job all through all of this, serving the mission, the staff, and the corporate selflessly all through. She is an unbelievable chief and OpenAI wouldn’t be OpenAI with out her. Thanks.
Greg and I are companions in operating this firm. We now have by no means fairly discovered the way to talk that on the org chart, however we are going to. Within the meantime, I simply wished to make it clear. Thanks for every thing you have got finished for the reason that very starting, and for the way you dealt with issues from the second this began and over the previous few days.
The management staff–Mira, Brad, Jason, Che, Hannah, Diane, Anna, Bob, Srinivas, Matt, Lilian, Miles, Jan, Wojciech, John, Jonathan, Pat, and plenty of extra–is clearly able to run the corporate with out me. They are saying one approach to consider a CEO is the way you choose and prepare your potential successors; on that metric I’m doing much better than I spotted. It’s clear to me that the corporate is in nice palms, and I hope that is abundantly clear to everybody. Thanks all.
Jakub, Szymon, and Aleksander are distinctive abilities and I’m so completely happy they’ve rejoined to maneuver us and our analysis ahead. Thanks.
To all of you, our staff: I’m certain books are going to be written about this time interval, and I hope the very first thing they are saying is how superb your entire staff has been. Now that we’re by all of this, we didn’t lose a single worker. You stood agency for one another, this firm, and our mission. One of the vital essential issues for the staff that builds AGI safely is the flexibility to deal with demanding and unsure conditions, and keep logic all through. High marks. Thanks all.
Satya, Kevin, Amy, and Brad have been unbelievable companions all through this, with precisely the appropriate priorities during. They’ve had our backs and have been able to welcome all of us if we couldn’t obtain our major objective. We clearly made the appropriate option to companion with Microsoft and I’m excited that our new board will embody them as a non-voting observer. Thanks.
To our companions and customers, thanks for sticking with us. We actually felt the outpouring of help and love, and it helped all of us get by this. The truth that we didn’t lose a single buyer will drive us to work even more durable for you, and we’re all excited to get again to work.
Will Hurd, Brian Chesky, Bret Taylor and Larry Summers put their lives on maintain and did an unbelievable quantity to help the mission. I don’t understand how they did it so properly, however they actually did. Thanks.
Ollie additionally put his life on maintain this complete time to simply do every thing he might to assist out, along with offering his typical unconditional love and help. Thanks and I like you.
So what’s subsequent?
We now have three rapid priorities.
● Advancing our analysis plan and additional investing in our full-stack security efforts, which have at all times been essential to our work. Our analysis roadmap is evident; this was a splendidly focusing time. I share the joy you all really feel; we are going to flip this disaster into a possibility! I’ll work with Mira on this.
● Persevering with to enhance and deploy our merchandise and serve our clients. It’s essential that individuals get to expertise the advantages and promise of AI, and have the chance to form it. We proceed to consider that nice merchandise are the easiest way to do that. I’ll work with Brad, Jason and Anna to make sure our unwavering dedication to customers, clients, companions and governments around the globe is evident.
● Bret, Larry, and Adam will probably be working very onerous on the extraordinarily essential activity of constructing out a board of numerous views, enhancing our governance construction, and overseeing an impartial overview of current occasions. I stay up for working carefully with them on these essential steps so everybody might be assured within the stability of OpenAI.
I’m so wanting ahead to ending the job of constructing useful AGI with you all—finest staff on the planet, finest mission on the planet.
Love, Sam