OpenAI co-founder Ilya Sutskever QUITS startup just months after sensationally kicking CEO Sam Altman out – then rehiring him
- Ilya Sutskever announced on Tuesday that he is leaving OpenAI after ten years
- He was one of four board members who voted to push out CEO Sam Altman
- Sutskever is said to have been concerned about Altman’s focus on growth over safety
OpenAI co-founder Ilya Sutskever, one of the original creators of the artificial intelligence technology behind ChatGPT, has announced that he will be leaving the company after nearly a decade.
Sutskever was one of four board members last fall who voted to oust CEO Sam Altman from the company — only to quickly reinstate him.
It was Sutskever, OpenAI’s chief scientist, who told Altman he was being fired last November.
Sutskever announced his decision Tuesday on the social media site
“After almost ten years, I have made the decision to leave OpenAI,” Sutskever said.
OpenAI co-founder Ilya Sutskever announced Tuesday that he will be leaving the company after nearly a decade
“It has been an honor and a privilege to have worked together, and I will miss everyone dearly. Goodbye, and thanks for everything. I’m excited about what comes next; a project that is very personally meaningful to me and about which I will share details in due course.”
Meanwhile, Altman wrote that saying goodbye is “very sad” and called Sutskever “one of the greatest minds of our generation, a leading light in our field and a dear friend.”
Altman had been fired from his role as CEO of OpenAI in November, leading the tech mogul to say on X that it was “a bit like reading your own eulogy while you were still alive.”
Jakob Pachocki and co-founder Greg Brockman were apparently surprised by the fire and both quit in protest of the alleged ambush.
Brockman said in a series of posts on X that Altman was asked by co-founder Ilya Sutskever to attend a meeting Friday at noon. Brockman was the only board member not present.
During that meeting, Altman was told he was being let go.
The New York Times later reported that Sutskever and Altman had been at odds for at least a year.
Sutskever was one of four board members who voted to oust CEO Sam Altman from the company last fall
Altman was fired as CEO of OpenAI in November
Sutskever is said to have been concerned about Altman’s focus on growth over AI safety. The pair had been working together for eight years at the time of the dismissal.
Sutskever is replaced by Jakub Pachoki as chief scientist at OpenAI in San Francisco.
Altman also called Pachocki “easily one of the greatest minds of our generation” and said he is “confident that he will lead us to make rapid and safe progress toward our mission of ensuring AGI provides everyone benefits.’
Shortly before artificial general intelligenceAGI is a futuristic vision of machines that are broadly as smart as humans, or at least can do many things as well as humans.
On Monday, OpenAI has introduced an update According to its AI model, it can reason through text, audio and video in real time.