Only 3 of the Original 11 OpenAI Cofounders Are Still at the Company After Another Leader Departs

OpenAI's founding squad started pinch 11 people, including Elon Musk. Now Musk is suing nan company for allegedly going against its founding ngo and respective of OpenAI's cofounders are stepping distant from their roles.

Late Monday, OpenAI cofounder John Schulman announced connected X that he would beryllium leaving to subordinate rival AI patient Anthropic. He specified that his determination was personal, and not based connected deficiency of support for AI information research.

"My determination is simply a individual one," he wrote, adding later that he will "still beryllium rooting" for nan OpenAI team, "even while moving elsewhere."

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Schulman's departure overlaps pinch different OpenAI cofounder stepping backmost from nan company. On Monday, OpenAI president Greg Brockman stated that he would beryllium taking an extended sabbatical for nan remainder of nan year.

I'm taking a sabbatical done extremity of year. First clip to relax since co-founding OpenAI 9 years ago. The ngo is acold from complete; we still person a safe AGI to build.

Brockman, CEO Sam Altman, and Wojciech Zaremba, a investigation and connection squad leader, are nan only members of OpenAI's 2015 founding team who stay astatine nan company.

The rest, including erstwhile OpenAI main intelligence Ilya Sutskever, have left, pinch Sutskever founding his ain Safe Superintelligence venture successful June.

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Peter Deng, OpenAI's vice president of user product, besides near OpenAI connected Monday per The Information, though he wasn't connected nan founding team.

OpenAI has faced contention recently, pinch Jan Leike, its erstwhile information leader who departed for Anthropic successful May, accusing nan company of prioritizing "shiny products" complete safety. In nan aforesaid month, Scarlett Johansson hired ineligible counsel aft uncovering that ChatGPT's voice sounded "eerily similar" to hers.