Satya Nadella, CEO of Microsoft
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Microsoft CEO Satya Nadella told CNBC’s Jon Fortt on Monday that oversight of OpenAI needs to change.
These comments come after days of drama sparked by OpenAI’s board firing co-founder Sam Altman as CEO.
“At this point, I think it’s very clear that something needs to change when it comes to governance,” Nadella said. He said Microsoft would have “a good dialogue with its board about this.”
Early Monday morning, Nadella said Altman, fellow OpenAI co-founder Greg Brockman, and their colleagues would join Microsoft as part of a new artificial intelligence research group. This post followed the news that former Twitch CEO Emmett Shear had been named interim director of OpenAI as Altman considered leaving.
Hours later, hundreds of OpenAI employees signed a letter to the startup’s board saying they “may choose to resign from OpenAI and join the recently announced Microsoft subsidiary, led by Sam Altman and Greg Brockman.
Altman’s rapid reinstatement began to look like a possibility Saturday as news surfaced that a group of high-profile investors, including Microsoft, Tiger Global, Thrive Capital and Sequoia Capital, were working to return to the decision of the board of directors taken the day before. None of these companies had a seat on the board of directors and they were caught off guard by this decision.
In a post on late Saturday night, Altman wrote, “I love the openai team so much.” Brockman, who left the company after the board removed him as chairman alongside Altman’s ouster, reposted the comment with a heart symbol. Other OpenAI employees have done the same.
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