Globally recognized artificial intelligence companyOpenAIThere has been a recent leadership personnel earthquake.On November 17, OpenAI announced in a press release on its website that due to the company's board of directors' decision on the currentCEOSam Altman has lost confidence in his leadership and has decided to remove him, with Chief Technology Officer Mira Mulati assuming the role of CEO on an interim basis.
The OpenAI board of directors reportedly took this decision after careful consideration, as they felt that Altman was not being forthcoming enough in his communications with the board, which was affecting the board's ability to fulfill its duties. The board includes OpenAI Chief Scientist Ilya Sutskever, Quora CEO Adam D'Angelo and others.
Altman himself does not directly own shares in OpenAI. After being deposed, he took to social media to say that he had enjoyed his time at OpenAI and hoped that he had made a small difference in the world.
Founded in 2015 by Tesla CEO Elon Musk and others, OpenAI is dedicated to advancing artificial intelligence technology. Last November, OpenAI's language model, ChatGPT, came out of nowhere, showing strong natural language understanding and generation capabilities.OpenAI's transformation also prompted Musk to quit the company.
Altman's departure signals that OpenAI may be facing a leadership shuffle. The industry will continue to monitor the impact of subsequent changes on the company.