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openai has 11 founding members, including sam altman and musk. today, only altman and wojciech zaremba, head of the language and code generation team, are still with the company.

february 13: andrej karpathy, an ai researcher and founding member, leaves the company. karpathy announced in july that he would start an ai-based comprehensive education platform called eureka labs.

march 8: ceo sam altman returns to openai’s board after being fired last november, along with three new directors: sue desmond-hellmann, former ceo of the gates foundation, nicole seligman, former president of sony entertainment, and fidji simo, ceo of u.s. delivery company instacart.

may 14: co-founder and chief scientist ilya sutskever leaves. sutskever recently co-founded safe superintelligence, which raised $1 billion in cash in september to help develop safe ai systems.

june 10: openai hires sarah friar, former ceo of social media company nextdoor, as its first chief financial officer. it also appoints kevin weil, formerly of twitter, facebook, and instagram, as its chief product officer.

august 5: co-founder john schulman leaves for competitor anthropic.

august 8: zico kolter, professor and director of the machine learning department at carnegie mellon university, was appointed to the board and joined the openai board’s safety committee. kolter’s work focuses on ai safety.

september 25: chief technology officer mira murati leaves the company after six and a half years. she briefly served as ceo when sam altman was fired by the board.