OpenAI Co-Founder Sam Altman to Return as Boss After Being Fired

OpenAI co-founder Sam Altman will return as boss just days after he was fired by the board, the firm has said. Mr Altman's sacking on Friday astonished industry watchers and led to staff threatening mass resignations unless he was reinstated. He added: "I love OpenAI, and everything I've done over the past few days has been in service of keeping this team and its mission together.

Last week, the board decided to remove Mr Altman, which led to co-founder Greg Brockman's resignation, sending the star artificial intelligence (AI) company into chaos. The decision was made by the three non-employee board members, Adam D'Angelo, Tasha McCauley and Helen Toner, and a third co-founder and the firm's chief scientist Ilya Sutskever., and signed the staff letter calling on the board to reverse course. Microsoft, which uses OpenAI technology in many of its products - and is its biggest investor - then offered Mr Altman a job leading "a new advanced AI research team" at the tech gian

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