Old new CEO. Sam Altman returns to OpenAI

November 22, 09:49 Share:

Sam Altman (Photo:twitter.com/sama)

Sam Altman is returning to the CEO position at OpenAI after being fired on November 17th.

The company reported this in X.

“With the new board and support of Satya Nadella I look forward to returning to OpenAI and building on our strong partnership with Microsoft ,” Altman wrote .

OpenAI complied with Altman's demands and changed its board of directors. Its new lineup included, as previously predicted, Bret Taylor ( former co-chairman of Salesforce Inc, ex-CTO of Facebook and chairman of Twitter before its sale to billionaire Elon Musk), as well as Larry Summers ( American economist, director of the National Economic Council) and Adam D'Angelo (co-founder and CEO of Quora and ex-CTO of Facebook) .

“ We are collaborating to figure out the details.. Thank you for your patience ,” the company added .

Earlier it was reported that the OpenAI board of directors fired Sam Altman from the position of CEO. The company was first temporarily headed by technical director Mira Murati , and then former CEO of the streaming platform Twitch Emmet Shear.

OpenAI's largest investors demanded that the company reinstate him. Then, in order to get out of the crisis, on the eve of the opening of the stock market on Monday, Altman was announced to work at Microsoft . At the same time, hundreds of OpenAI employees began to threaten to quit and join Microsoft .

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