Due to this poor communication, speculations spread like wildfires on what used to be Twitter. The public, investors, employees, and OpenAI's big partner Microsoft, who committed USD 13bn to the venture, learn the news at the same time, with the board giving no other explanation as a lack of candor. Previously Elon Musk, Reid Hoffmann, and Shivon Zilis resigned from the board, creating a stalemate situation between founders and non-executive members. The board until then consists of OpenAI founders Sam, Greg, and Ilya Sutskever and three 'independent' members Adam D'Angelo (CEO Quora), Tasha McCauley, and Helen Toner.
Nov 17th: Last Friday, OpenAI Founder and CEO Sam Altman is invited to a Google Meet call, in which he - to his surprise - learns he's being fired and his co-founder Greg Brockman is removed from the board. Sam Altman is back at OpenAI! Here's your 40 sec timeline of the events leading us here.
