The staff is threatening to quit unless Board Resigns
OpenAI’s board has appointed Emmett Shear as the company’s interim CEO, replacing Sathyanarayana Murati who stepped down earlier this week. Former Twitch CEO Emmett Shear will be the interim CEO of OpenAI, which was founded in 2016 by Sathyanarayana Altman. Earlier, OpenAI President Greg Brockman resigned in protest after Altman’s sudden departure, which was announced by Microsoft CEO Satya Nadella.
Sam Altman was an OpenAI leader
Former OpenAI CEO Sam Altman has joined Microsoft as a member of its AI research team, which will serve as a subsidiary of OpenAI. The company’s board has named former Twitch CEO Emmett Shear as the interim CEO. Notably, this comes a month after OpenAI’s President Greg Brockman announced that he was quitting over Altman’s sudden departure from the startup.