That is how OpenAI fired its CEO, Sam Altman.
Former OpenAI president and chair Greg Brockman’s post on X tells his model of the occasions that pushed Sam Altman out of OpenAI (Altman reshared the put up, and put up a message that these days “has been sorta like studying your personal eulogy when you’re nonetheless alive”).
In keeping with Brockman, OpenAI Leader Scientist and board member Ilya Sutskever texted Altman on Thursday night time asking to speak at midday on Friday (November seventeenth). At midday, on a Google Meet name with Sutskever, in addition to non-employee board contributors Adam D’Angelo, Tasha McCauley, and Helen Toner, “Ilya informed Sam he used to be being fired and that the inside track used to be going out very quickly.”
Inside of mins, Sutskever invited Brockman to a Google Meet name the place he used to be knowledgeable of his elimination from the board “…and that Sam were fired. Round the similar time, OpenAI published a blog post.”