OpenAI Fires CEO Sam Altman, Sending Shock Waves Across Tech Industry

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The board of the company behind ChatGPT has fired OpenAI CEO Sam Altman, citing lack of consistent communication. OpenAI's chief technology officer will serve as interim CEO while a search for a permanent CEO is conducted. OpenAI president and co-founder Greg Brockman also quit the company.

The board of the company behind ChatGPT on Friday (Saturday AEDT) fired OpenAI CEO Sam Altman – to many, the human face of generative AI – sending shock waves across the tech industry. OpenAI’s chief technology officer Mira Murati will serve as interim CEO, the company said, adding that it will conduct a formal search for a permanent CEO.

“Altman’s departure follows a deliberative review process by the board, which concluded that he was not consistently candid in his communications with the board, hindering its ability to exercise its responsibilities,” OpenAI said in the blog without elaborating.Greg Brockman, OpenAI president and co-founder, who stepped down from the board as chairman as part of the management shuffle, quit the company, he announced on messaging platform X late on Friday. “Based on today’s news, i quit,” he wrote. The departures blindsided many employees who discovered the abrupt management change from an internal message and the company’s public facing blo

 

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