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President utopia hicksville12/20/2023 ![]() ![]() Weirdly enough, Quora CEO Adam D’Angelo is the only pre-Friday board member who’ll remain on what OpenAI characterized as its “initial board” going forward, despite the employee letter insisting that that entire board step down. Predictably, most of the mutineers who ousted Altman and Brockman are gone: Tasha McCauley and Helen Toner are no longer advising the company, and Ilya Sutskever, who “ deeply regretted” his hefty role in this mess, is back at the company but not on the board. ![]() In fact, the makeup of OpenAI’s new board of directors is-Paul McCartney voice-very strange. Still, as the Information’s Amir Efrati put it, “ It’s not all roses.” Neither Altman nor Brockman is retaining his old board seat. Twitch co-founder Emmett Shear is no longer interim CEO but is “deeply pleased by this result, after ~72 very intense hours of work,” and is “ glad to have been a part of the solution.” Microsoft CEO Satya Nadella stated, “We look forward to building on our strong partnership and delivering the value of this next generation of AI to our customers and partners.” (Brockman followed up with an expression of “ incredible gratitude” toward Microsoft leadership.) Even MC Hammer, of all people, is psyched. “e are so back,” Brockman exclaimed, sharing a selfie with his smiling team (who celebrated, according to the Information’s Erin Woo, by setting off a false fire alarm at OpenAI HQ). “’m looking forward to returning to openai, and building on our strong partnership with msft,” Altman tweeted. When it comes to the Main Characters of this saga and their loyalists, it seems most everyone’s pretty happy. will once again operate with the backing of Microsoft, not as direct employees of the Big Tech pioneer. company, we found ourselves (mostly) back where we started: Altman is returning to OpenAI as its CEO, albeit not to its board of directors Greg Brockman is once again president of OpenAI, but also will not be a member of the board Mira Murati, who briefly took the helm as interim CEO, is just regular ol’ CTO again the three researchers who’d stepped down Friday in solidarity with Altman and Brockman are either back at the company or requesting to return Altman & co. Late Tuesday night, four days after CEO Sam Altman’s shocking ouster from the A.I. Folks, if you predicted on Friday that the closely watched OpenAI power struggle would end in the most pointless-seeming way possible … well, just look. ![]()
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