Microsoft hires OpenAI founders to lead AI research team after ChatGPT maker’s shakeup

Microsoft announced Monday that it has hired Sam Altman and another co-founder of ChatGPT maker OpenAI after unexpectedly leaving the company days earlier in a corporate shake-up that shocked the world of artificial intelligence.

Microsoft Chairman and CEO Satya Nadella also tweeted that the major investor in OpenAI – behind the chatbot that started the generative AI craze – was “looking forward to welcoming OpenAI’s new CEO, former Twitch leader Emmett Shear, and the rest of the organization. the management team.

Nadella wrote on

Altman said “the mission continues,” in response to Nadella on X.

OpenAI said Friday that Altman was pushed out after an investigation found he “was not consistently candid in his communications” with the board of directors, which had lost confidence in his ability to lead OpenAI.

Altman catapulted ChatGPT to global prominence when he was the company’s CEO and over the past year has become Silicon Valley’s sought-after voice on the promise and potential perils of artificial intelligence.

OpenAI had announced last week that co-founder Brockman would step down as chairman of the board, but would remain president. Brockman followed up with a post on

In another X post Friday evening, Brockman said Altman was asked to join a video meeting with the company’s board members when co-founder and chief scientist Ilya Sutskever informed Altman he was being fired.

Brockman added that he was informed of his removal from the board a short time later in a separate phone conversation with Sutskever.

“Sam and I are shocked and saddened by what the board did today,” Brockman wrote on X.