Sam Altman isn’t the one main OpenAI government leaving the corporate on Friday. Hours after Altman was fired, with the board saying it “now not has confidence in his capacity to proceed main OpenAI,” co-founder and former board chair Greg Brockman revealed on X that he’s additionally quitting.
When OpenAI introduced the “management transition” and that CTO Mira Murati would take over as interim CEO, it mentioned that Brockman would step down as chairman however stay in his function on the firm, reporting to the CEO. Only a few hours later, that’s now not true.
Within the publish on X (previously Twitter), Brockman mentioned he despatched the following message to OpenAI staffers:
hello everybody,
i am tremendous pleased with what we’ve all constructed collectively since beginning in my condo 8 years in the past. we’ve been by way of robust & nice occasions collectively, undertaking a lot regardless of all the explanations it ought to have been inconceivable.
however based mostly on right this moment’s information, i stop.
genuinely wishing you all nothing however the perfect. i proceed to consider within the mission of making secure AGI that advantages all of humanity.
After studying right this moment’s information, that is the message I despatched to the OpenAI group: pic.twitter.com/8x39P0ejOM
— Greg Brockman (@gdb) November 18, 2023
OpenAI unexpectedly introduced that it had fired Altman earlier on Friday. The corporate arguably kicked off tech’s present infatuation with synthetic intelligence following the explosive recognition of ChatGPT.