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openai's top management continues to be turbulent. on wednesday local time, openai cto mira murati posted on a social platform that she would leave openai, where she had worked for more than six years.

"after much reflection, i have made the difficult decision to leave openai. there is never an ideal time to leave a cherished place, but this moment feels right. i am stepping down in the hope of creating time and space to explore myself, and my priority now is to ensure the smoothest transition possible," wrote mira murati.

including mira murati, co-founder and president greg brockman, who announced in august that he would take a leave of absence until the end of the year, and co-founder and chief scientist ilya sutskever, who left in may, at least three senior executives have faded out of openai's daily work this year. however, there were no reports of conflicts between greg brockman and mira murati and other openai management before they faded out. the day before announcing her resignation, mira murati also called on chatgpt plus and team users on social platforms to try out chatgpt's newly launched advanced voice mode.

who is leaving openai?

before announcing her resignation, mira murati was still active in openai. in may this year, mira murati hosted the release of gpt-4o. in september, openai released the o1 series of models, and mira murati was one of the contributors. her social account has also been continuously forwarding new news about openai in recent days.

"when mira murati told me this morning that she was leaving, i was sad but supportive of her decision. over the past year, she has been developing a strong leadership team and driving our progress," said openai ceo sam altman.

last november, when the openai board of directors suddenly removed sam altman, mira murati was appointed interim ceo. a few days later, sam altman returned to the company and mira murati returned to the position of cto. mira murati has confidence in artificial intelligence. in a live broadcast in june, she said that new artificial intelligence tools may cause some creative jobs to disappear, but if the quality of the content produced is not very high, these jobs may not exist in the first place, and ai used as an education and creativity tool will expand people's intelligence, creativity and imagination. this has some similarities with sam altman's optimistic attitude towards artificial intelligence.

in addition to mira murati, the departure of some senior executives of openai this year may cause openai to lose a lot of talent.

in august, greg brockman, president and co-founder of openai, announced that he would take a leave of absence until the end of the year. although he did not mention his resignation, the long leave was also seen by the outside world as a signal of fading from the management of openai. ilya sutskever, co-founder and chief scientist of openai, also left openai before. among these senior executives, ilya sutskever is the only one who has exposed potential conflicts with sam altman. he participated in the board of directors' vote to fire sam altman during the internal strife at the end of last year, and then supported altman's return to the company. the "super intelligence alignment" team he was responsible for at openai has been disbanded.

in addition to several senior executives, there are other talent losses in the openai team, including some founding team members and key product managers. in august, john schulman, a member of the founding team of openai, announced his departure from openai. andrej karpathy, another founding team member of openai, left openai in february. peter deng, the product manager of openai, was also previously reported to be leaving.

in addition, a few hours after mira murati announced her resignation, sam altman revealed in his latest post on the social platform that openai chief research officer (bob mcgrew) bob mcgrew and vice president of research (barrett zoph) in charge of post-training will also leave. among them, bob mcgrew has worked at openai for 8 years, and barrett zoph joined openai before the release of chatgpt and participated in the establishment of the post-training team from scratch. the reporter saw in the list of contributors to the o1 series of large models that bob mcgrew and barrett zoph were on the list, and ilya sutskever, who has left, was one of the basic contributors.

sam altman revealed that mark chen will become the new senior vice president to lead the research team, and will lead the research team together with chief scientist jakub pachocki. he also announced the candidates for mission coordination leader and chief information security officer.

what changes will openai usher in?

some talents who have made important contributions have stepped down from their daily work or left openai. some of them have joined openai's competitors or started their own businesses, becoming potential competitors of openai. among them, andrei karpas announced in july that he had founded an ai+education company, and john schulman joined openai's competitor anthropic. mira murati has not yet revealed where she will go after leaving.

even after personnel changes, openai's research work is still moving forward this year. the o1 series, which some industry insiders believe has "changed the ai ​​paradigm," was launched in september. however, openai's video generation model sora and the next-generation large model gpt-5 have yet to be released.

from the internal strife that openai experienced at the end of last year to the continuous departure of key figures from the openai team this year, the outside world has been speculating that sam altman has disagreements with some team members. for example, ilya sutskever belongs to the conservative faction, emphasizing safety and openai's basic values, while sam altman belongs to the other faction, emphasizing the acceleration of the commercialization process.

sam altman seems to have greater ambitions for commercialization, and raising money and obtaining new financing are the only way to achieve rapid commercialization. previously, wedbush securities analysts said that sam is considered a "fundraising master" who successfully persuaded microsoft to invest billions of dollars and led the company's related transactions last year.

although it has not been confirmed by openai, there have been constant reports that openai will undergo major changes under the leadership of sam altman. the latest news is that openai plans to reorganize its core business into a for-profit company and will no longer be controlled by a non-profit board of directors. after the relevant changes, openai will be more attractive to investors. in addition, sam altman will hold a minority stake in the for-profit company, and the non-profit organization openai will continue to exist and hold a minority stake in the for-profit company. currently, openai is a non-profit organization with a restricted for-profit entity under the non-profit parent company, which is designed with a profit cap.

as research and development continues, openai will continue to "burn money" to build larger models, and may have to continue to attract investors for financing. recently, there are reports that openai is negotiating to raise $6.5 billion in financing from investors at a company valuation of $150 billion.