On the afternoon of November 22,OpenAIAnnounced on social media that an agreement has been reached in principle Sam AltmanReturned to OpenAI as CEO and reorganizedBoard of Directors. More details will be announced later.
Initial board members include former Salesforce co-CEO Bret Taylor (as chairman), former 71st U.S. Treasury Secretary Lawrence Henry Summers, and original board member Adam D'angelo continues to serve.
SamFirstTime has confirmed the news and he finally returned home with his friends.
OpenAI official news
In the process of continuous reversal of the whole recall event, asmaximumMicrosoft shareholders played an important roleMicrosoft CEO Satya Nadella gave Sam his unconditional and full support from the beginning.FirstTime released an official statement, continuing to maintain a solid cooperative relationship with OpenAI.
SamFirstAfter the first negotiation with OpenAI collapsed, he decided to join Microsoft. More than 700 OpenAI employees began to force the board of directors to change their mind, saying that if Sam was not allowed to return as CEO, they would follow Sam.
Sam confirmed
Microsoft said that if OpenAI employees join Microsoft, they will all be assigned to Sam's newly established subsidiary and will receive the same salary.
Subsequently, OpenAI and Sam restarted negotiations, and Microsoft stated that it would fully support Sam whether he chose to join Microsoft or return to OpenAI.
Introduction of initial board members
Bret Taylor
According to public information, Bret Taylor received a bachelor's degree and a master's degree in computer science from Stanford University.
Previously worked at Google as a product manager for Google Maps and Google Local, and was also one of the co-creators of Google Maps.
After leaving Google, Bret co-founded the social networking tool Benchling with Jim Norris, a real-time aggregation platform that allows users to share content. It was acquired by Facebook in 2009 and served as its CTO.
After leaving Facebook, Bret founded Quip, a collaborative document editing platform that improves team productivity. It was acquired by Salesforce in 2016 and served in several executive positions at Salesforce, ultimately becoming co-CEO.
In 2021, Bret was appointed Chairman of Twitter's Board of Directors.
Lawrence Henry Summers
Lawrence is an AmericanFamousEconomist, served as U.S. Secretary of the Treasury from 1999 to 2001, Chairman of the National Economic Council from 2009 to 2010, and also served as President of Harvard University.
Adam D'Angelo
Adam is the co-founder and CEO of Quora. Quora is the world’smaximumA knowledge question-and-answer community, its traffic is second only to Wikipidia among encyclopedia websites.
He served as Facebook's chief technology officer and vice president of engineering until 2008. In high school, he developed music software with Zuckerberg and others, and entered the California Institute of Technology in 2002 as a genius boy Adam D'Angelo.
Review of OpenAI’s “removal incident”
In the early morning of November 18, OpenAI announced a leadership change on its official website, and the board of directors removed Sam Altman from all positions due to "dishonest communication."
Chief Technology Officer Mira Murati will serve as interim CEO, effective immediately. The news shocked the global technology community.
After learning the news, Greg Brockman, chairman of the board and co-founder, also announced his resignation, followed by several important researchers and executives of OpenAI leaving.
MicrosoftFirstTime released an official statement that it will continue its partnership with OpenAI and support Mira and her team.
On November 19, OpenAI was in a state of chaos, with employees, Microsoft, Tiger Global Fund, Rise Capital, Sequoia Capital and other investors demanding that OpenAI recall Sam. Sam himself was also open to returning to OpenAI.
In the early morning of November 20, Sam returned to OpenAI headquarters and negotiated with management again, but the negotiations eventually broke down. In the afternoon, Satya Nadella announced that Sam and his team would join Microsoft, and OpenAI announced a new interim CEO, former globalmaximumEmmett Shear, co-founder and CEO of Twitch, a gaming live-streaming platform.
On the evening of November 20, more than 700 employees signed a joint letter asking the OpenAI board of directors to bring back Sam and other executives, otherwise they would all support Sam in jumping to Microsoft.
On November 22, OpenAI was forced to restart negotiations with Sam due to pressure from its employees. In the end, Sam successfully returned to OpenAI and reorganized the board of directors.
Subsequent Easter Eggs
Although the OpenAI palace drama has come to an end for the time being, there are still many questions that are not clear:1) What was the reason for the sudden dismissal of Sam? Although the official explanation was "dishonest communication", no more detailed information has been given so far. What was the dishonesty about?
2) Who is the real mastermind behind the incident? The outside world has suspected OpenAI co-founder and chief scientist Ilya Sutskever, as well as three non-active board members.
3) Who will be the new members of the board? OpenAI said that these are just the initial members, but there will definitely be new people joining in the future.
4) Will this incident affect OpenAI's R&D process and ChatGPT's functional iteration path? After four days of making trouble and experiencing the ups and downs of life, will Sam, like Di Yun in "The Untold Story", get everything that belongs to him and retire to the snow-capped mountains?
Let us look forward to the subsequent Easter eggs.