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On November 17, 2023, OpenAI's board of directors ousted co-founder and chief executive Sam Altman after the board had no confidence in his leadership. The removal was caused by concerns about his handling of artificial intelligence safety , [ 1 ] [ 2 ] and allegations of abusive behavior. [ 3 ]
Altman is considered to be one of the leading figures of the AI boom. [3] [4] [5] He dropped out of Stanford University after two years and founded Loopt, a mobile social networking service, raising more than $30 million in venture capital. In 2011, Altman joined Y Combinator, a startup accelerator, and was its president from 2014 to 2019. [6]
Hinton, who's known as the "godfather of AI" for his pioneering work in neural networks, has long warned about AI's dangers. During an interview with CBS's "60 Minutes," which aired in October ...
Sutskever co-founded and is a former chief scientist at OpenAI. [11] In 2023, he was one of the members of OpenAI's board that ousted Sam Altman from his position as CEO; Altman returned a week later, and Sutskever stepped down from the board. In June 2024, Sutskever co-founded the company Safe Superintelligence with Daniel Gross and Daniel ...
OpenAI CEO Sam Altman and Elon Musk sparred publicly Monday after the Wall Street Journal reported that Musk and other investors have fielded a $97.4 billion offer to take control of the AI giant.
New Nobel Prize winner, AI godfather Geoffrey Hinton, says he’s proud his student fired OpenAI boss Sam Altman Christiaan Hetzner Updated October 9, 2024 at 1:57 PM
Former headquarters at the Pioneer Building in San Francisco. In December 2015, OpenAI was founded by Sam Altman, Elon Musk, Ilya Sutskever, Greg Brockman, Trevor Blackwell, Vicki Cheung, Andrej Karpathy, Durk Kingma, John Schulman, Pamela Vagata, and Wojciech Zaremba, with Sam Altman and Elon Musk as the co-chairs.
The company's only goal and focus is safely developing "superintelligence” — a reference to AI systems that are smarter than humans. OpenAI co-founder Sutskever sets up new AI company devoted ...