OpenAI co-founder Greg Brockman returns after three months of leave

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OpenAI co-founder Greg Brockman returns after three months of leave

Greg Brockman speaks onstage at “OpenAI Co-founder on ChatGPT, DALL·E, and the Impact of Generative AI” during 2023 SXSW Conference and Festivals at Austin Convention Center on March 10, 2023 in Austin, Texas. 

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OpenAI co-founder Greg Brockman has returned to the company as president, three months after announcing he would take a sabbatical “through end of year.” On Tuesday, he

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on X that the “longest vacation” of his life was complete and that he was “back to building OpenAI.”

Brockman’s return comes more than a month after OpenAI closed its latest funding round at a valuation of $157 billion. In the time he was gone, an increasing number of executives departed and the company faced heightened controversy surrounding its upcoming conversion to a for-profit structure and its decision to shutter certain safety teams.

In late September, OpenAI Chief Technology Officer Mira Murati announced she would depart the company after six and a half years. The same day, research chief Bob McGrew and Barret Zoph, a research vice president, said they were leaving. OpenAI co-founder Ilya Sutskever and former safety leader Jan Leike announced their departures in May, with Leike joining rival Anthropic. Co-founder John Schulman said in August that he was also leaving for Anthropic. And last week, Lilian Weng, OpenAI’s vice president of research and safety,

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she would depart after seven years at the company.

Brockman has long been an ally of OpenAI CEO Sam Altman, who was abruptly fired and then swiftly reinstated a year ago. The company debuted in 2015 as a nonprofit with Brockman as chief technology officer and Altman as CEO.

Following Altman’s temporary ouster, Brockman shared a 

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 on X that he quit. He also wrote in a 

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 at the time that both he and Altman were “shocked and saddened by what the board did today.”

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