Unlike Google, Facebook and other tech giants, the company behind ChatGPT was not created to be a business. While OpenAI later transitioned to a for-profit model, its controlling shareholder remains the nonprofit OpenAI Inc. and its board of directors. This unique structure made it possible for four OpenAI board members — the company's chief scientist, two outside tech entrepreneurs and an academic — to oust CEO Sam Altman on Friday.
The company named Emmett Shear, cofounder and former CEO of Twitch, as the new interim CEO, pushing aside Mira Murati, a longtime OpenAI executive who was named interim CEO after Altman s ouster.
Breakup/Makeup A vast majority of OpenAI's 770 staffers are pressuring the company's board of directors to reinstate CEO Sam Altman — and if they don't, those employees are threatening to walk. After the weekend's whirlwind of OpenAI news — which began when the company's board of directors dropped a surprise Friday afternoon announcement that it […]