Sam Altman returns as CEO, OpenAI has a brand new preliminary board

I’m returning to OpenAI as CEO. Mira will return to her function as CTO. The brand new preliminary board will encompass Bret Taylor (Chair), Larry Summers, and Adam D’Angelo.

I’ve by no means been extra excited in regards to the future. I’m extraordinarily grateful for everybody’s exhausting work in an unclear and unprecedented scenario, and I consider our resilience and spirit set us aside within the business. I really feel so, so good about our likelihood of success for attaining our mission.

Earlier than attending to what comes subsequent, I’d wish to share some thanks.

I like and respect Ilya, I believe he is a guiding mild of the sector and a gem of a human being. I harbor zero sick will in the direction of him. Whereas Ilya will not serve on the board, we hope to proceed our working relationship and are discussing how he can proceed his work at OpenAI.

I’m grateful to Adam, Tasha, and Helen for working with us to come back to this answer that finest serves the mission. I’m excited to proceed to work with Adam and am sincerely grateful to Helen and Tasha for investing an enormous quantity of effort on this course of.

Thanks additionally to Emmett who had a key and constructive function in serving to us attain this end result. Emmett’s dedication to AI security and balancing stakeholders’ pursuits was clear.

Mira did an incredible job all through all of this, serving the mission, the staff, and the corporate selflessly all through. She is an unbelievable chief and OpenAI wouldn’t be OpenAI with out her. Thanks.

Greg and I are companions in working this firm. Now we have by no means fairly found out easy methods to talk that on the org chart, however we’ll. Within the meantime, I simply needed to make it clear. Thanks for all the things you’ve got completed because the very starting, and for a way you dealt with issues from the second this began and over the past week.

The management staff–Mira, Brad, Jason, Che, Hannah, Diane, Anna, Bob, Srinivas, Matt, Lilian, Miles, Jan, Wojciech, John, Jonathan, Pat, and lots of extra–is clearly able to run the corporate with out me. They are saying one option to consider a CEO is the way you decide and prepare your potential successors; on that metric I’m doing much better than I noticed. It’s clear to me that the corporate is in nice arms, and I hope that is abundantly clear to everybody. Thanks all.

Jakub, Szymon, and Aleksander are distinctive skills and I’m so joyful they’ve rejoined to maneuver us and our analysis ahead. Thanks.

To all of you, our staff: I’m positive books are going to be written about this time interval, and I hope the very first thing they are saying is how wonderful your entire staff has been. Now that we’re via all of this, we didn’t lose a single worker. You stood agency for one another, this firm, and our mission. One of the crucial necessary issues for the staff that builds AGI safely is the flexibility to deal with nerve-racking and unsure conditions, and preserve common sense all through. High marks. Thanks all.

Satya, Kevin, Amy, and Brad have been unbelievable companions all through this, with precisely the proper priorities throughout. They’ve had our backs and had been able to welcome all of us if we couldn’t obtain our main objective. We clearly made the proper option to associate with Microsoft and I’m excited that our new board will embrace them as a non-voting observer. Thanks.

To our companions and customers, thanks for sticking with us. We actually felt the outpouring of help and love, and it helped all of us get via this. The truth that we didn’t lose a single buyer will drive us to work even more durable for you, and we’re all excited to get again to work.

Will Hurd, Brian Chesky, Bret Taylor and Larry Summers put their lives on maintain and did an unbelievable quantity to help the mission. I don’t understand how they did it so properly, however they actually did. Thanks.

Ollie additionally put his life on maintain this complete time to only do all the things he might to assist out, along with offering his common unconditional love and help. Thanks and I like you.

So what’s subsequent?

Now we have three fast priorities.

Advancing our analysis plan and additional investing in our full-stack security efforts, which have at all times been essential to our work. Our analysis roadmap is evident; this was a splendidly focusing time. I share the thrill you all really feel; we’ll flip this disaster into a possibility! I’ll work with Mira on this.

Persevering with to enhance and deploy our merchandise and serve our prospects. It’s necessary that folks get to expertise the advantages and promise of AI, and have the chance to form it. We proceed to consider that nice merchandise are one of the best ways to do that. I’ll work with Brad, Jason and Anna to make sure our unwavering dedication to customers, prospects, companions and governments world wide is evident.

Bret, Larry, and Adam shall be working very exhausting on the extraordinarily necessary job of constructing out a board of various views, bettering our governance construction and overseeing an impartial evaluation of current occasions. I sit up for working intently with them on these essential steps so everybody might be assured within the stability of OpenAI. 

I’m so trying ahead to ending the job of constructing useful AGI with you all—finest staff on the earth, finest mission on the earth.

Love,

Sam