sale of stake in OpenAI is under threat due to the dismissal of the CEO – Kommersant

The sale of shares of OpenAI, the developer of the ChatGPT chatbot, to the investment company Thrive Capital for $86 billion was in jeopardy due to the dismissal of CEO Sam Altman, the publication reports. The Information citing a source familiar with the situation.

According to the publication, the approval of the transaction is at the final stage and, according to the source, it was expected that it would be closed in December.

Mr. Altman dismissed yesterday, November 18, due to the fact that the head of the company “was not candid” in his interactions with the board. What exactly we are talking about is not specified. The company’s chief technology officer, Mira Murati, will temporarily serve as CEO. The report states that a “search is underway for a permanent successor.”

OpenAI was founded in 2015. He studies artificial intelligence. She is best known for creating several generations of the GPT language model, on which the ChatGPT chatbot is based. One of the founders was Elon Musk, who later announced his resignation from the board of directors due to potential future conflicts of interest. Microsoft invested $1 billion in the company in 2019. Sam Altman was also one of the founders of OpenAI. He has headed the company since 2020. Previously, he was the head of the business incubator Y Combinator.

Erdni Kagaltynov