Sam Altman, former CEO of OpenAI, an artificial intelligence (AI) research company, has joined Microsoft along with Greg Brockman, former chairman of OpenAI’s board. Through an official blog post, Satya Nadella, CEO, Microsoft, gave confirmation about the development.
“And we’re extremely excited to share the news that Sam Altman and Greg Brockman, together with colleagues, will be joining Microsoft to lead a new advanced AI research team. We look forward to moving quickly to provide them with the resources needed for their success,” the post stated.
According to the official blog post, Microsoft stated on remaining committed to their OpenAI partnership and expressed faith in their product roadmap. The post also showed Microsoft’s confidence in its innovations that were announced at Microsoft Ignite, along with providing continuous support to its customers and partners. “We look forward to getting to know Emmett Shear and OAI’s new leadership team and working with them,” the post added.
On November 17, 2023, Sam Altman was removed from his OpenAI position, after the platform’s board of directors took the call of not having confidence in him for running the company further. The OpenAI post mentioned that Sam Altman “was not consistently candid in his communications with the board, hindering its ability to exercise its responsibilities.” Shortly after that, Greg Brockman also resigned from his post but will continue reporting to the CEO. In order to fill in its vacant CEO role, OpenAI took the call of positioning Mira Murati, OpenAI’s CTO, as its interim CEO.
