OpenAI founders Sam Altman and Brockman will join Microsoft

Microsoft CEO Nadella announced that OpenAI founders Sam Altman and Greg Brockman and their colleagues will join Microsoft.

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We remain committed to our partnership with OpenAI and remain confident in our product roadmap, all the innovation we have committed to at Ignite, and our ability to continue supporting our customers and partners. We look forward to getting to know and working with Emmett Shear and OpenAI’s new leadership team.

At the same time, we are also very excited to share the news: Sam Altman and Greg Brockman will join Microsoft along with their colleagues to lead a new advanced artificial intelligence research team. We also want to be able to provide them with everything they need to succeed as quickly as possible.

We have summarized below the general context of Altmann’s dismissal:

Last Thursday night local time, Sam received a text message from chief scientist Ilya Sutskever, requesting a talk at noon on Friday. Sam attends a Google Meet meeting where the entire board of directors is present except Greg. Elijah tells Sam he’s being fired and the news will come out soon.
At 12:19 noon local time, Greg received a text message from Elijah asking for a quick call back.
At 12:23 pm local time, Ilya sent the Google Meet link. Greg was told that he would be removed from the board (but that he was vital to the company and would retain his position), and Sam had been fired. Around the same time, OpenAI published a blog post .
The management team soon became aware of this, except for interim CEO Mira Murati, who found out the night before.

Public news early on November 18th, Beijing time:

On Friday local time, OpenAI announced that Sam Altman will resign as CEO and leave the board of directors, and will be replaced by technical director Mira Mulati, effective immediately.
OpenAI’s board of directors said in a blog post that after a “deliberative review process,” it concluded that Altman had not been consistently candid in his communications with the board, hampering the board’s ability to carry out its responsibilities. “The board no longer has confidence in his ability to continue leading OpenAI.”
Altman said: “I loved my time at OpenAI. It was revolutionary for me and hopefully the world. Most importantly, I loved working with such talented people. .I have more detailed things to say later.”

Media reports on November 19, Beijing time:

Sam Altman told investors he plans to launch a new AI company. Greg Brockman is expected to join the venture, which is still under development and the exact nature of the joint venture is unclear at this time.
OpenAI’s board of directors is discussing returning to the CEO position with Altman. He was “ambivalent” about returning and wanted significant changes to governance.
Microsoft CEO Satya Nadella has spoken with Altman to ensure that he can return to OpenAI on Monday local time.

Media reports on November 20, Beijing time:

Altman met with former president Greg Brockman as a “visitor” with executives at the company’s San Francisco headquarters.
Subsequently, it was reported that Microsoft hopes to support Altman’s return to power and is considering placing an important chess piece in OpenAI’s new board of directors.
At noon today, OpenAI announced that Altman’s return had failed, and the board of directors chose former Twitch CEO Emmett Shear as interim CEO. As Altman confirmed his departure, dozens of OpenAI employees also chose to resign.
This afternoon, Microsoft CEO Nadella announced that Altman, Brockman and their colleagues will join Microsoft.

As Altman confirmed his departure, it was reported that dozens more OpenAI employees announced their resignations

After OpenAI’s former CEO Sam Altman confirmed that he would not return to the company, a person familiar with the matter revealed that on Sunday night local time, dozens more employees submitted Resignation.

According to reports, dozens of employees have announced their departure this time, which will hinder the company’s subsequent business and may also change the development direction of the AI field. It would also embolden competitors, including Google, which have been seeking to hire OpenAI employees over the past 48 hours.

Some OpenAI employees have said they would be interested in joining Altman if he founded a new AI company.

Just now, Microsoft CEO Nadella announced that Altman and Brockman will join Microsoft.

According to reports from The Information and Forbes Beijing time today, the OpenAI board of directors has selected former Twitch CEO Emmett Shear as interim CEO. OpenAI co-founder and board director Ilya Sutskever told employees that despite efforts by company executives to bring Altman back as OpenAI CEO, they were unsuccessful.

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