Mira Murati will be the interim CEO.

Sam Altman has been fired as CEO of OpenAI, the company announced on Friday.

“Mr. Altman’s departure follows a deliberative review process by the board, which concluded that he was not consistently candid in his communications with the board, hindering its ability to exercise its responsibilities,” the company said in its blog post.

EDITED TO ADD direct link to OpenAI board announcement:
https://openai.com/blog/openai-announces-leadership-transition

  • AutoTL;DR@lemmings.worldBEnglish
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    1 year ago

    This is the best summary I could come up with:

    Sam Altman has been fired as CEO of OpenAI, the company announced on Friday.

    Chief technology officer Mira Murati will be the interim CEO, effective immediately.

    When contacted by The Verge, OpenAI’s communications department declined to comment beyond the blog post.

    This is an extremely sudden turn of events as Altman has largely been the face of OpenAI, which arguably kickstarted the current AI arms race with last year’s hugely popular ChatGPT.

    Altman is a co-founder of OpenAI and initially served as a co-chair of the company alongside Elon Musk.

    Musk left in 2018 to avoid a conflict of interest with Tesla — he has since founded his own AI company, xAI.

    The original article contains 239 words, the summary contains 112 words. Saved 53%. I’m a bot and I’m open source!

        • itsathursday@lemmy.worldEnglish
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          1 year ago

          The bot is using AI and arguably the technology of OpenAI to report on the news that a human has lost their job but has no context on what it is reporting.

          • ChunkMcHorkle@lemmy.worldOPEnglish
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            1 year ago

            Yeah, I see your point. Not sure I can do anything about it, but yeah. It’s kind of like an almost unnoticeable line in the sand has been crossed.

            Thank you for taking the time to explain what you meant, I wouldn’t have noticed it otherwise.

  • jeffw@lemmy.worldEnglish
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    1 year ago

    On one hand, this was posted 15 minutes before you posted this… on the other hand, this is a much clearer headline

    • ChunkMcHorkle@lemmy.worldOPEnglish
      01·
      1 year ago

      Really? I searched by new before I posted, saw nothing about Sam Altman.

      EDITED TO ADD you can color me blind, because yeah, there’s one titled “OpenAI announces leadership transition” right before mine. Shit. Not sure how to handle this, but if the mods want to delete mine they can.

  • DreamButt@lemmy.worldEnglish
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    1 year ago

    OpenAI also announced that co-founder Greg Brockman will be stepping down as chairman of the board, though he will remain at the company.

    Interesting. No way this isn’t connected

    • ChunkMcHorkle@lemmy.worldOPEnglish
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      1 year ago

      Yeah. Given the language (Altman lied to them) and the chairman stepping down (but remaining in the C-suite) I’m starting to think that maybe Altman was trying to take something in an unapproved direction and present it as a fait accompli but got found out before he was ready to reveal it.

      I added the direct link to the board’s announcement to the post text so people can see it for themselves – interesting how the board separated Altman’s removal from Brockman’s demotion by five paragraphs, adding Brockman’s changed position just before the end almost as an afterthought. Which of course it isn’t, lol.