Greg Brockman speaks during “OpenAI Co-Founder Talks ChatGPT, DALL·E” during the 2023 SXSW Conference and Festival at the Austin Convention Center in Austin, Texas, March 10, 2023 and the impact of generative AI”.
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OpenAI co-founder Greg Brockman has returned to the company as president, three months after announcing he would take a leave of absence “until the end of the year.” on tuesday he release On X, the “longest vacation” of his life was over, and he “started building OpenAI again.”
Brockman returns after more than a month OpenAI completes latest round of financing The valuation is US$157 billion. His departure comes amid a growing number of senior executive departures and the company facing intense controversy surrounding its impending transition to a for-profit structure and its decision to shutter certain security teams.
At the end of September, OpenAI Chief Technology Officer Mira Murati announced that she would Leave the company Six and a half years later. On the same day, head of research Bob McGrew and vice president of research Barret Zoph said they were leaving. OpenAI co-founder Ilya Sutskever and former security chief Jan Leike announce departure In May, Leike joined rival Anthropic. Co-founder John Schulman said August He’s also going to Anthropic. Last week, OpenAI vice president of research and security Lilian Weng said declare She left the company after seven years.
Brockman has long been an ally of OpenAI CEO Sam Altman, who was abruptly fired a year ago and then quickly reinstated. The company was founded as a nonprofit in 2015, with Brockman serving as chief technology officer and Altman serving as chief executive.
After Ultraman temporarily dismissedBrockman shared postal On X he resigned. He also wrote in an article postal At the time, both he and Altman were “shocked and saddened by what the board did today.”
