Vaidehi R | 231ADP20 |
OpenAI's Leadership Turmoil OpenAI faced a crisis when CEO Sam Altman was unexpectedly removed by the board due to concerns regarding his abusive behaviour and management of AI safety. This was a major shock for the company as Altman had already established his presence in the company well versed. Although he was removed by the boards, due to the immense pressure from the employees and the investors, the board had to retrieve the decision and Sam Altman was reinstated on November 22. OpenAI OpenAI is a non-profit research company that develops AI with the goal of being beneficial to humanity. It conducts research in areas like machine learning, deep learning and reinforcement learning. It was founded in 2015 by a group of tech visionaries like Sam Altman, Greg Brockman, Ilya Sutskever, John Schulman and Wojciech. Altman and Tesla CEO Elon Must were co-chairs of the organization. In the beginning, OpenAI started with $1 billion in funding which was provided by Altman, Musk, A...