Todd Spangler NY Digital Editor After a flurry of weekend negotiations, Microsoft said it hired Sam Altman — just two days after the board of OpenAI ousted him as CEO — while OpenAI recruited Emmett Shear, most recently chief executive of livestreaming platform Twitch, to step in as interim CEO.
Altman will lead a new artificial-intelligence research team at Microsoft, alongside former OpenAI president Greg Brockman (who had quit after Altman was fired on Nov.
17), Microsoft CEO Satya Nadella announced in a post Sunday night. Microsoft previously announced plans to invest billions over several years in OpenAI, the research organization that created the buzzy AI chatbot ChatGPT.
Per the New York Times, Microsoft has invested more than $13 billion in San Francisco-based OpenAI. Other investors in OpenAI include Sequoia Capital and Thrive Capital.
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