OpenAI CTO Mira Murati is leaving the company Bob McGrew, OpenAI’s chief research officer and Barret Zoph, VP of post training have also left.
Murati’s departure comes almost a year after a boardroom coup shook the AI startup and temporarily ousted CEO Sam Altman, leaving Murati as its temporary leader. In her six-year tenure, she was responsible for the launch of ChatGPT and OpenAI’s text-to-image generator, DALL-E.
It is unknown if there were further power struggles. It is unknown if this reflects upon the amount of progress toward GPT 5 or GPT Next.
I shared the following note with the OpenAI team today. pic.twitter.com/nsZ4khI06P
— Mira Murati (@miramurati) September 25, 2024
VP of research Mark Chen is being promoted to OpenAI’s new SVP of research, and will lead the company’s research org in partnership with Jakub Pachocki as chief scientist.
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Its all about boni and stock options
Something stinks at OpenAI. Sam got pushed out by the board, then there was this giant online love fest on x where everyone proclaimed their support for Sam. Then he gets reinstated and shortly after all the key people around him start leaving ….. very strange… I’m not sure what to make of it.
The SPAC with Oklo doesn’t make sense to me.