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local time9moon25day,OpenAIchief technology officerMira Muratiindicates that inOpenAIafter working for more than six years, she decided to leave.Xin a memo shared onMuratishe said she would resign“to free up time and space for your own exploration”, but she did not give any details.

according to foreign media reports, regarding murati's departure,OpenAIemployees in-houseSlackeveryone on the channel expressed shock. at this point, only the ceo is left of openai’s four-member core technical team.samaltman was the only one. shortly after murati announced his resignation, altman released another bombshell: two other technology heavyweights also left.

openai’s high-level turmoil has also raised concerns about the safety of its ai development, that is, whether openai still has sufficient capabilities to take responsibility in the pursuit of agi.

however, foreign media quoted two people familiar with the matter as saying that the reason why executives have withdrawn one after another is thatOpenAI, because altman is trying toOpenAIopenai is also discussing granting altman7%the major shift would mark altman’s first time acquiring an equity stake in the artificial intelligence startup.

cto and three other technical experts resigned

local time9moon25day,OpenAIchief technology officermira murati posted on the social platform x that she would leave openai, where she had worked for more than six years.OpenAIinteriorturmoilit never seemed to end.

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including 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 stepped down from openai's daily work this year. this also means that altman is now the only one left in openai's original four-member core technical team.

Muratishe said“leave”is for“make time and space for your own exploration”regarding her resignation,OpenAIemployees in the internalSlackthe channel expressed shock.

regarding the shake-up of openai’s top management, a venture capitalist even sarcastically said: “airbnb has no hotels, uber has no cars,OpenAIthere are no executives. that’s the new economy.”

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some netizens even used the famous scene from the godfather to indicate the end of the old generation of senior executives.

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shortly after murati officially announced his resignation, altman published an open letter expressing hisMuratithanks and explained thatmuratithe reason for resigning suddenly is that any action that is not sudden may be leaked.

in this letter,altman also revealedOpenAIchief research officerBob McGrewand vice president for researchBarret Zophresignation news.

bob mcgrew joined openai as a member of the technical team in 2017. the following year, he was promoted to vice president of research and later appointed chief research officer. he has been working at openai for nearly 8 years.

barret zoph joined openai before chatgpt came out in 2022. he previously worked as a research scientist at google. after joining openai, he and john schulman and others built openai's post-training team from scratch.

in response to the resignation news,McGrewexpress,“it’s time to take a break”。zophexistXhe stated that he was“explore new opportunities”。

in an open letter, altman said:leadership changes are common, especially for fast-growing, demanding companies.he also explained thatthe decision of these three senior executives was independent and amicable。

is altman the biggest winner?

however, according to foreign media citing two people familiar with the matter, the reason why executives have withdrawn one after another is thatOpenAI, because altman is trying toOpenAItransformed into a traditional for-profit company.

local time9moon25according to foreign media reports,openai isdevelop a plan to reorganize the company as a for-profit corporation and remove it from control by its nonprofit board of directors.

sources said that under the new structure,OpenAIwill be like a competitorAnthropicas a for-profit company.the nonprofit board willlose control but retain a minority stake in the new for-profit openai entity.

this will be more attractive to investors, but it may be disturbing to those who are concerned about openai's safety and business model, because openai is working on some of the most cutting-edge ai models, which may also be the most dangerous. if openai abandons regulatory efforts because of business considerations, it may lead to serious consequences.

the company's restructuring plan was proposed at a time when openai was negotiating a new round of financing.

according to foreign media, citing informed sources,openai is activelythe reason for seeking financial support is that its expenditures far exceed its revenues.OpenAIannual sales exceed30billion, but its expenditure is about70billions of dollars.

at present,OpenAIexceeded65three people familiar with the matter said that the uae technology investment companyMGXis one of the potential investors, and other investors include microsoft,Nvidia, apple andTiger Global。

in addition, insiders revealed thatOpenAIthere is still discussion about awarding altman7%the major shift would mark altman’s first time acquiring an equity stake in the artificial intelligence startup.altman has previously said he never took an equity stake, that the company was designed to benefit society, and that he was already rich enough.

in this regard, technology practitioner amit paranjape commented that this is "the establishment of the altman empire."

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some netizens also mocked: "rememberOpenAIthe nonprofit committee said, 'this guy (altman) has been lying to us and doesn't seem to take the nonprofit mission seriously.' at the time, the outside world called him‘idiots’ and laugh at it? the funny thing is, they’re totally right.”

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altman was briefly ousted from the openai board of directors late last year, in part because he attempted to change openai's nonprofit structure. about a week later, altman returned to the ceo position, and in his letter he mentioned "improving the governance structure." after that, openai experienced a wave of executive departures.

in addition to the latest news, three co-founders, a security director and a product director have left openai this year, in addition to a series of researchers leaving.

of the 11 founding members of openai, only two people, apart from brockman who is on leave, are still involved in daily operations. image source: meijing charting

the turmoil at the top has also raised concerns about the safety of its ai development, that is, whether openai still has enough capabilities to take responsibility in the pursuit of agi. jane lake, the outgoing security director, once criticized: "openai's priority for agi safety governance is not as high as launching a 'shiny product'."

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