OpenAI's Update: Sam Altman returns, expresses love for the journey

Delhi : After the board of directors dismissed Altman last Friday, about 70% of the 770-person staff vowed to quit if he was not given a chance to return. After being fired by the board of directors on November 17, ChatGPT's inventor OpenAI announced on Wednesday that CEO Sam Altman will be rejoining the firm. This announcement put an end to the controversy that followed.

"A principled agreement has been achieved for Sam Altman to rejoin OpenAI as CEO, leading a new first board that includes Adam D'Angelo, Larry Summers, and Bret Taylor as Chair. We are working together to resolve the specifics. On X (previously Twitter), the San Francisco-based AI research company tweeted, "Thank you so much for your patience through this." "I love openai, and everything I've done over the past few days has been in service of keeping this team and its mission together," Altman wrote on X in response to the development. It seemed obvious that joining Microsoft on Sunday night was the right move for both the team and me. Building on our solid cooperation with msft, I'm looking forward to returning to openai with the support of W Satya and the new board.

Greg Brockman is returning as well, having resigned as President of OpenAI in protest at Altman's dismissal. After Altman was fired, Microsoft—the company with the biggest interest in OpenAI—hired him, and Brockman joined the 38-year-old at the tech behemoth led by Satya Nadella. When Altman was removed, over 500 workers at OpenAI—nearly 70% of the company's 770 employees—threatened to quit and join Microsoft in the event that he was not reinstated.

In an attempt to discover a solution, this led ChatGPT's developer to start "intense discussions."