OpenAI co-founder and Chief Scientist Ilya Sutskever is leaving the company

There is Ilya Sutskever announced at X, formerly known as Twitter, said he has left OpenAI nearly a decade after co-founding the company. He is confident that OpenAI will “build [artificial general intelligence] It’s both safe and rewarding,” he continued, under the leadership of CEO Sam Altman, President Greg Brockman and CTO Mira Murati. In his post about Sutskever’s departure, Altman called him “One of the greatest minds of our generation” and praised him for his work at the company. Jakub Pachocki, former Director of Research at OpenAI, who led the development of GPT-4 and OpenAI Five Sutskever took the role as chief scientist.

Although Sutskever and Altman praised each other in their farewell messages, the two were embroiled in the company’s biggest scandal last year. OpenAI’s board suddenly in November He fired Altman and company president Greg Brockman. “[T]he no longer trusts his board [Altman’s] The ability to continue to lead OpenAI,” the ChatGPT founder announced at the time. Sutskever, a board member, participated in and was the one to fire them. asked both Altman and Brockman to separate meetings where they were informed about their dismissal. According to reports at the time, Altman and Sutskever were up in arms about how quickly OpenAI was developing and commercializing its generative AI technology.

Both Altman and Brockman were was restored just five days after they were fired and the original board was disbanded and replaced by a new one. Just before that Sutskever Posted in X that he “deeply regrets[tted his] Involvement in the actions of the Board of Directors’ and he said he would do everything in his power to ‘put the company back together’. The New York Times he says he’s not really back to work.

Sutskever shared that he is moving on to a new project that is “very personally meaningful” to him, though he has yet to share details about it. As for OpenAI, it was introduced recently GPT-4oclaims to be able to recognize emotion and process and generate output in text, audio and images.