That is how OpenAI fired its CEO, Sam Altman.
Former OpenAI president and chair Greg Brockman’s post on X tells his model of the occasions that pushed Sam Altman out of OpenAI (Altman reshared the submit, and put up a message that at the moment “has been sorta like studying your personal eulogy when you’re nonetheless alive”).
In keeping with Brockman, OpenAI Chief Scientist and board member Ilya Sutskever texted Altman on Thursday night time asking to speak at midday on Friday (November seventeenth). At midday, on a Google Meet name with Sutskever, in addition to non-employee board members Adam D’Angelo, Tasha McCauley, and Helen Toner, “Ilya advised Sam he was being fired and that the information was going out very quickly.”
Inside minutes, Sutskever invited Brockman to a Google Meet name the place he was knowledgeable of his elimination from the board “…and that Sam had been fired. Across the similar time, OpenAI published a blog post.”
