Sam Altman is officially (and again) CEO of OpenAI, a company he co-founded but which had estranged him for a short time. This change in vertex company also saw the return of Greg Brockman, who resumes the role of Chairman of the Board of Directors after having previously submitted his resignation when the Board of Directors fired Altman. He also officially joins the company board Microsoft.
OpenAI: Sam Altman officially returns CEO, Microsoft on the board
The official announcement of Altman’s return coincides with first anniversary of the public release of ChatGPT, the chatbot developed by the company. The Tweet Di Altman references work done a year earlier on the chatbot, providing an interesting temporal overlap between its return and commemorating ChatGPT’s launch.
After the saga of the last few weeks, Altman is not the only change in the company’s organizational chart. The organization has experienced a rearrangement ai verticescon Mira Murati who recovered the role of CTO. The Board of Directors now includes figures such as Bret Taylor, previously active at companies like Shopify, Salesforce, and Twitter. Next to him, there are Larry Summersformer US Treasury Secretary and economist, e Adam D’Angeloanother co-founder of OpenAI and founder of Quora.
A significant turning point was also the entry of Microsoft In the board of directors of OpenAI, in a position of observer member without voting rightsor. This privilege underlines the partnership between the two entities and to investments important ones made by Microsoft.
The connection between the ChatGPT anniversary and the event of Altman’s return may be coincidental, but it testifies to the huge success of the artificial intelligence platform. In a short time, ChatGPT has become a point of reference in the world of AI, demonstrating the impact of these technologies especially on the world of work. A year later, Altman returns as CEO of one of the fastest growing companies in the world.