Mira Murati will be the interim CEO.

Sam Altman has been fired as CEO of OpenAI, the company announced on Friday.

“Mr. Altman’s departure follows a deliberative review process by the board, which concluded that he was not consistently candid in his communications with the board, hindering its ability to exercise its responsibilities,” the company said in its blog post.

EDITED TO ADD direct link to OpenAI board announcement:
https://openai.com/blog/openai-announces-leadership-transition

  • seaQueue@lemmy.worldEnglish
    15·
    1 year ago

    Whatever it was it’s spicy enough that they’re trying to bury the press release in the late Friday afternoon news graveyard

    Edit: even better, whatever they’re trying to distance themselves from is so important they didn’t even wait for the closing bell on the market.