Sam Altman joins Microsoft: Will not return to OpenAI, Emmett Shear gets the responsibility of interim CEO
Sam Altman, co-founder of OpenAI, the company that made ChatGPT, has joined Microsoft. He will lead the company’s new advanced AI research team. Microsoft CEO Satya Nadella gave this information on Monday. Apart from Altman, former OpenAI President Greg Brockman and some other employees will also join Microsoft.
Satya Nadella said- ‘We are committed to our partnership with openAI. We look forward to getting to know and working with Emmett Shear and the new team at OpenAI. “We are also excited to share the news that Sam and Greg will join their colleagues at Microsoft to lead a new advanced AI research team.”
Emmett Shear becomes interim CEO at OpenAI
On the other hand, former Twitch CEO Emmett Shear will take over the responsibility of interim CEO at OpenAI. After the removal of Altman, Mira Murati was given this responsibility, but now she has been removed from this post. An internal memo regarding this was issued to the company staff on Sunday night.
It bears the signatures of board directors Adam D’Angelo, Helen Toner, Ilya Sutskever and Tasha McCauley. The New York Times has seen this memo. The memo said- ‘The only way to advance OpenAI’s mission was to remove Altman and the board firmly stands by its decision.’
Emmett Shear is the co-founder of video streaming platform Twitch
- Emmett Shear, born 1983, is an American. Shear graduated in computer science from Yale University in 2005.
- Shear created the live video streaming platform Twitch in 2003 and became CEO of the company in August 2011.
- In 2014, Amazon bought Twitch for about Rs 8 thousand crores. Shear resigned as CEO in March 2023
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am Altman was called to the company headquarters.
OpenAI CEO Sam Altman and former President Greg Brockman were called to the company’s San Francisco headquarters on Sunday. Meira Murati and the leadership team invited him for further discussions. Altman also shared a photo of himself wearing an OpenAI guest badge with the caption: First and last time I’m wearing one of these. -
Investors had been pressuring the board for Altman’s return.
Altman was suddenly removed on Friday, November 17. After this the board of OpenAI had to face a lot of opposition. Some of the company’s investors and employees were putting pressure on the board for Altman’s return. The biggest investor of OpenAI is Microsoft.Co-founder Greg Brockman had also resigned.
Company co-founder Greg Brockman had also resigned after Sam Altman was fired. The two are talking to friends and investors to start a company together. Earlier, Gregg had expressed surprise about Altman’s removal. He wrote on X…Sam and I are shocked and saddened by what the board did today.
First of all, thank you to everyone we have worked with at OpenAI. Thank you to our customers, our investors and everyone who has been reaching out to us.
We are still trying to find out what exactly happened.
Things we know:
– Last night, Sam got a text from Alya asking to talk on Friday at noon. Sam attended the Google Meet and the entire board was there except Greg, that is, me. Ilya tells Sam that he is being fired from his job and that the news will be coming out soon.
– At 12:19 pm, I received a text from Ilya asking to call immediately. At 12:23 pm Ilya sent the Google Meet link. I was told that I was being removed from the board, but not from the company. Sam was fired. Around the same time, OpenAI published a blog post.
– As far as we know, the management team was informed about this immediately. Meera also came to know about this the night before.
Please don’t waste time worrying. We will be fine. Big things are coming soon.
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Meera Murati had got the responsibility of CEO.
After the removal of Sam Altman, the company’s board had given the responsibility of interim CEO to Chief Technology Officer (CTO) Meera Murati. The board had said that the company will also continue the search for a permanent CEO.- Mira Murati, born in Albania, studied in Canada. 34 year old Murati is a mechanical engineer. He built a hybrid racecar while an undergraduate at Dartmouth College. While in school, he interned at Goldman Sachs.
- She joined OpenAI in 2018 after working at Tesla. At Tesla, he played an important role in the development of the Model X car. He spent three years at Tesla as a senior product manager. From here he got the inspiration to go into AI field.
- OpenAI appointed her as Vice President of Applied AI and Partnerships. At that time, the company was a non-profitable organization. It later restructured itself as a for-profit company to raise funds and create AI products.
- Mira Murati has worked behind the scenes in the development of revolutionary products like ChatGPT and DALL-E. Last year he was made the Chief Technology Officer i.e. CTO. He ensured that engineers developed versions of ChatGPT on schedule.
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The company that created ChatGPT is OpenAI…
There are 7 co-founders of this company-
Sam Altman: Entrepreneur. Before OpenAI, he was the President of Y-Combinator, a group that funded start-ups. Then became the CEO of OpenAI.
Ilya Setskever: Chief Scientist of OpenAI.
Greg Brockman: President of OpenAI.
Wojciech Zoremba: Head of the Codex and LanguageWatch research teams at OpenAI.
Elon Musk: Has invested in OpenAI.
John Shulman: AI Research Scientist.
Andrej Karpathy: Research Scientist.
Among all these people, the role of Sam Altman is the most important, because he is the one who designed this research. That is, it was he who decided how this research related to AI would be done and what would be produced.
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ChatGPT was publicly unveiled in 2022.
OpenAI unveiled ChatGPT to the world in November 2022. This AI tool has gained popularity rapidly. From writing music and poetry to writing essays, ChatGPT can do a lot of things. This is a conversational AI. An artificial intelligence that answers you like a human.Big tech companies like Microsoft have invested more than $30 billion in OpenAI. The company has also integrated ChatGPT in its search engine ‘Bing’.
Many more companies are eager to use ChatGPT. In such a situation, the use of this AI based chatbot is expected to spread more in the coming days.
Critics say that the increasing use of AI will create problems for people. Jobs will end, people’s dependence on it will increase and perhaps one day a day will come when humans will completely leave the job of thinking to AI.
Sam Altman does not deny this danger. However, he says that it is difficult to imagine a world that does not need the human brain.
What kind of questions can you ask on ChatGPT?
You can ask any question from this. That means, from writing emails to CV, you can get it done. ChatGPT also gives the answer to how to make a reel or your video viral. ChatGPT also gives you suggestions on what gift to give to your wife.ChatGPT gives complete information in short and precise words instead of long answers. If a student wants to write an essay on democracy, then he will immediately type on ChatGPT Write an essay on democracy. After this, the complete text will appear in front of you. As…
