Similarly, OpenAI’s President Greg Brockman will be away from work until the end of the year also.
Significant turnover at OpenAI
Current happenings, the artificial intelligence organisation of global stature, OpenAI’s is experiencing rather charged staff turnover. Two of its key members resign from the company while the other screams out loud saying that he or she is to take a sabbatical.
Departures and holidays
OpenAI President Greg Brockman speaking in Davos said that he will be moving aside from the presidency until the end of the year. Finally, in a message published on his social networks, he admits that it is the first time he has been able to rest since the beginning of the creation of OpenAI nine years ago. However, he tries to console his colleagues that he will be back from that break. He had briefly resigned from the company last year after the removal of “Sam Altman”, the company’s CEO although he had to return back to the company shortly.
As for Anthropic’s competitor, formerly affiliated with OpenAI, co-founder and ex-CEO John Schulman took to social networks stating that he was leaving OpenAI for good and joining Anthropic. He justifies this choice by his need to dedicate his energies towards the correct positioning of Artificial Intelligence and the called for need to go back to basics technical problems.
Follow-up of previous changes
These recent announcements have been made at the backdrop of several changes within the organizational structure of OpenAI. For instance, co-founder alongside with chief scientist Ilya Sutskever has left the company this spring saying he did not want to be involved in the discharge of Sam Altman.
On the other hand, the appointment of the company’s first CFO and the CPO may have influenced Peter Deng, the vice president in charge of the consumer product at OpenAI, to also depart. Deng was until recently a head of product development at Meta, the company behind Facebook, and Uber.
While I was away on maternity leave and now that I have returned to only work one day a week, these changes mark the new beginning for OpenAI. It remains for time for it to tell a story of the effects of these changes on long-term strategy and destiny of the company.
