Sam Altman on Thursday denied there was any connection between the departure of OpenAI’s three senior executives and the company’s planned restructuring, saying the board had been considering it for several months.
Mira Muratti, the longtime chief technology officer of the world’s leading AI firm, announced her sudden departure on Wednesday. Within hours, two senior research executives, Barrett Zoff and Bob McGrew, revealed that they were also leaving the company.
The same day, Reuters reported that OpenAI was working on plans to reorganize its core business into a for-profit corporation that would no longer be controlled by its non-profit board, with the aim of making the company more attractive to investors. Have to make. ,
Speaking on stage at the Italian Tech Week conference in Turin, OpenAI CEO Altman said that “some things” reported about the executives’ departures were incorrect, adding that the personnel changes were not related to the restructuring.
“This is completely not true,” he told the event organizer, John Elkann, chairman of car companies Ferrari and Stellantis.
“What I saw was completely wrong, but we’ve been thinking about that (restructuring), our board has been thinking independently for about a year about what we need to do to get to our next stage. “
Altman praised the departing executives and said he was excited to simplify the company’s structure and work more closely with technology staff.
“I haven’t been as involved in tech as much as other things lately, because there’s so much going on, I’m excited to do that,” he said.
“Hopefully this will be a great change for everyone involved and OpenAI will be stronger for it, as we have been for all our changes.”
Details of the proposed restructuring highlight significant changes behind the scenes at one of the world’s top AI companies.
Sources told Reuters that at the time of writing the plans were still under negotiation between lawyers and shareholders, with the timeline for completion still uncertain.
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