Le conseil d'administration d'OpenAI licencie le PDG Sam Altman

OpenAI’s board of directors just fired CEO Sam Altman for not being “consistently candid” in his communications.

La CTO Mira Murati a été nommée PDG par intérim pour diriger le laboratoire en attendant que le conseil d'administration trouve un nouveau patron.

Dans un communiqué vendredi, le conseil d'administration a affirmé Valérie Plante.: « OpenAI a été délibérément structuré pour faire avancer notre mission : garantir que l’intelligence artificielle générale profite à toute l’humanité. Le conseil reste pleinement engagé à servir cette mission. Nous sommes reconnaissants pour les nombreuses contributions de Sam à la création et à la croissance d'OpenAI. Dans le même temps, nous pensons qu’un nouveau leadership est nécessaire à mesure que nous progressons.

Altman was ousted after the board said it found he had not been completely honest and forthright in his conversations with the directors, leading the panel to feel a lack of confidence in his abilities to continue as CEO. 

The move comes as a shock. Launched as a non-profit in 2015, Altman changed the upstart as it transformed into a for-profit, secretive biz. OpenAI is seen as a leader in generative AI technology, and was the first outfit to commercialize large language models with its GPT-3 system. 

Depuis lors, OpenAI a développé de nombreux autres types de modèles d'IA dotés d'autres capacités génératives, tels que son DALL-E de conversion texte-image, le Codex d'écriture de code utilisé dans GitHub Copilot, et bien plus encore, notamment ChatGPT, son produit le plus connu. .

Under Altman, the startup’s valuation catapulted as it attracted billions of dollars from investors. Its largest backer, Microsoft, reportedly splashed $10 billion in a deal that gave it 49 percent stake in the company at a valuation of a whopping $29 billion. At the same time, Microsoft has been keen to gifler sa propre image de marque sur la technologie OpenAI alors que le géant Windows et Azure intègre les réseaux neuronaux du laboratoire dans chaque coin de ses produits et services.

His sudden exit comes just as OpenAI talked up its vision to provide a marketplace for GPTs, applications built on top of its AI chatbot ChatGPT.

Nothing seemed amiss as Altman announced the new services during the US-based lab’s first developer conference a few weeks ago. Prior to this, he was flying around the globe talking to world leaders about the potential and dangers of AI as governments work towards crafting policy to regulate the technology. On Thursday, Altman showed up at the high-profile Asia-Pacific Economic Cooperation event in San Francisco, attended by US President Joe Biden and China’s President Xi Jinping. 

But behind closed doors, it must have been a different story for the board to fire him. “We believe new leadership is necessary as we move forward. As the leader of the company’s research, product, and safety functions, Mira is exceptionally qualified to step into the role of interim CEO. We have the utmost confidence in her ability to lead OpenAI during this transition period,” the org said. 

OpenAI’s board of directors include its co-founder chief scientist Ilya Sutskever; Quora CEO Adam D’Angelo; entrepreneur Tasha McCauley, and Georgetown Center for Security and Emerging Technology’s Director of Strategy and Foundational Research Grants Helen Toner. Co-founder Greg Brockman was chairman of the board, and will be stepping down as part of the reshuffle. ®

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