OpenAI board in discussions with Sam Altman to return as CEO


Sam Altman at the APEC CEO Summit 2023 In San Francisco.
Sam Altman talking on behalf of OpenAI on the APEC CEO Summit the day earlier than he was fired. | Photograph by Justin Sullivan/Getty Photographs

The OpenAI board is in discussions with Sam Altman to return to the corporate as its CEO, in line with a number of folks conversant in the matter. Certainly one of them mentioned Altman, who was out of the blue fired by the board on Friday with no discover, is “ambivalent” about coming again and would need vital governance adjustments.

Altman holding talks with the corporate only a day after he was ousted signifies that OpenAI is in a state of free-fall with out him. Hours after he was axed, Greg Brockman, OpenAI’s president and former board chairman, resigned, and the 2 have been speaking to associates and traders about beginning one other firm. A string of senior researchers additionally resigned on Friday, and other people near OpenAI say extra departures are within the works.

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