Almost all workers at the artificial intelligence company OpenAI have threatened to resign and follow their former CEO, Sam Altmanto the technology giant Microsoft in what is the last chapter of the 72 hours of crisis that threatens the stability of the creator of ChatGPT.
According to what Bloomberg has published, about 700 workers of the nearly 770 that it has The company has asked the current members of the board of directors to resign. after the dismissals last Friday of Altman and Greg Brockman, who held the company’s presidency.
Since then, OpenAI has suffered three heart-stopping days that now add up to another episode, with the publication of an open letter, which has already been signed by practically the entire staff and in which the resignation of the current members of the board of directors is requested and the reintegration of Altman and Brockman into the company.
“Their actions have made it clear that they are incapable of overseeing OpenAI. We cannot work for or with people who lack skillsjudgment and care for our mission and our employees,” they stated in the letter.
Fired after not being “honest”
The creator of ChatGPT announced last Friday the dismissal of her co-founder Sam Altman as CEO and member of the board of directors, having lost the “trust” of this body.
The board of directors accused its CEO of not being “consistently honest in his communications” with the body, which harmed “his ability to exercise his responsibilities,” in a statement that was published just half an hour after Altman found out. by videoconference of his departure from the company.
Likewise, the body confirmed the dismissal of Brockman as president of the board of directors.
Some moves that caught Microsoft, the firm’s main shareholder, and other investors, who were unaware of the news, off guard because OpenAI is governed as a non-profit organization and is governed by an independent majority.
In fact, media such as the Financial Times (FT) claimed over the weekend that a block of shareholders, including Microsoft and funds such as Tiger Global, Thrive Capital and Sequoia, were pushing to reinstate Altman as CEO. and Brockman as president, in addition to ousting the firm’s current directors.
Altman signs for Microsoft
After the weekend, Microsoft CEO Satya Nadella cleared up some unknowns this Monday by announcing through the social network X (formerly Twitter) that will hire both managers to lead a new department focused on AI.
“We are extremely excited to share with you that Sam Altman and Greg Brockman, along with their colleagues, will join Microsoft to lead a new AI research team,” he stated, to which the former responded: “The mission continues.” ”.
In parallel, OpenAI has named Emmett Shear, co-founder of Twitch, as the company’s new CEO after chief technology officer Mira Murati was appointed to the position on an interim basis.
Altman’s arrival at the technology company could now be accompanied by many of the OpenAI workersas is the case of the technology director, Mira Murati; COO Brad Lightcap; and the chief scientist and member of the board of directors, Ilya Sutskever, all of them signatories of the letter.
Altman himself shared a message a few minutes ago in which he made his support clear to them and claimed to feel “incredibly proud of them.”
“The OpenAI management team, particularly Mira, Brad and Jason, but really everyone, has done an incredible job throughout all of this that will go down in the history books,” he stated, continuing: “We are all going to work together in one way or another, and I’m very excited. “One team, one mission.”
Shortly before 2:15 p.m. local time, shares of Microsoft, listed on the Nasdaq technology market, rose 2% to $377.36.
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