OpenAI's Former CEO Sam Altman Joins Microsoft, Satya Nadella Extends Greetings Over X

OpenAI’s Former CEO Sam Altman Joins Microsoft, Satya Nadella Extends Greetings Over X،

Microsoft, creator of the Windows operating system and one of the biggest investors in OpenAI, is hiring Sam Altman and Greg Brockman. Following a deliberate review process by OpenAI’s board of directors, Altman was terminated as CEO last Friday. Shortly thereafter, Brockman resigned as president, along with several top researchers at the company. Although several reports over the weekend claimed that OpenAI was in talks with Altman and could bring back its CEO, Microsoft’s hiring of Altman and Brockman, two co-founders of OpenAI, is a big step forward.

Nadella announces hiring of Altman and Brockman

In a tweet from his official X account (formerly known as Twitter), Microsoft CEO Satya Nadella announced: “Sam Altman and Greg Brockman, along with their colleagues, will join Microsoft to lead a new research team advances in AI. Nadella added that Microsoft looks forward to “moving quickly to provide them [Altman and Brockman] with the resources necessary for their success. Following this, Altman reposted the tweet from his account saying: “The mission continues. »

We remain committed to our partnership with OpenAI and are confident in our product roadmap, our ability to continue to innovate with everything we announced at Microsoft Ignite, and to continue supporting our customers and partners. We can’t wait to get to know Emmett…

– Satya Nadella (@satyanadella) November 20, 2023

Another tweet from Nadella reveals that Altman is joining Microsoft as CEO of the new AI research team, which remains anonymous for now. “We’ve learned a lot over the year about how to give founders and innovators the space to build independent identities and cultures within Microsoft,” Nadella added. The hire comes hours after OpenAI negotiations failed to return Altman to his original role following pressure from investors.

What’s going on at OpenAI?

Previously, OpenAI fired Altman and appointed Mira Murati as the company’s interim CEO. However, according to a report from The Verge, the board has now decided to appoint Emmett Shear, the former CEO of Twitch, as interim CEO. Although the company has not confirmed the new appointment, it could do so in the coming days, given that there appears to be no way to bring Altman back.

Apparently, OpenAI’s four-person board of directors refused to resign amid Altman’s return. According to The Information, OpenAI employees were told on Sunday that removing Altman was the “only path” to achieving the company’s goal of creating “broadly beneficial” artificial general intelligence.

Microsoft had expressed interest in Altman’s ideas for creating a new TPU

Before being fired from OpenAI, Sam reportedly pitched a custom AI Tensor Processing Unit (TPU) to investors, The New York Times reported. The project, dubbed “Tigris,” has turned many heads among venture capitalists and sparked some interest from Microsoft, Bloomberg reported. Amid the chaos, the Nadella-led company remains committed to its partnership with OpenAI, as it reportedly invested around $10 billion.

It will be interesting to see what comes next, especially what Altman does with his team and Microsoft’s resources in his new role as CEO of the Advanced AI Research team.

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