OpenAI co-founder and Chief Scientist Ilya Sutskever is leaving the company

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OpenAI co-founder and Chief Scientist Ilya Sutskever is leaving the company

Ilya Sutskever has

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, that he’s leaving OpenAI almost a decade after he co-founded the company. He’s confident that OpenAI “will build [artificial general intelligence] that is both safe and beneficial” under the leadership of CEO Sam Altman, President Greg Brockman and CTO Mira Murati, he continued. In his own post about Sutskever’s departure, Altman

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“one of the greatest minds of our generation” and credited him for his work with the company. Jakub Pachocki, OpenAI’s previous Director of Research who headed the development of GPT-4 and OpenAI Five, has

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as Chief Scientist.

After almost a decade, I have made the decision to leave OpenAI. The company’s trajectory has been nothing short of miraculous, and I’m confident that OpenAI will build AGI that is both safe and beneficial under the leadership of

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and now, under the…

— Ilya Sutskever (@ilyasut)

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While Sutskever and Altman praised each other in their farewell messages, the two were embroiled in the company’s biggest scandal last year. In November, OpenAI’s board of directors suddenly fired Altman and company President Greg Brockman. “[T]he board no longer has confidence in [Altman’s] ability to continue leading OpenAI,” the ChatGPT-maker announced back then. Sutskever, who was a board member, was involved in their dismissal and was the one who asked both Altman and Brockman to separate meetings where they were informed that they were being fired. According to reports that came out at the time, Altman and Sutskever had been butting heads when it came to how quickly OpenAI was developing and commercializing its generative AI technology.

Both Altman and Brockman were reinstated just five days after they were fired, and the original board was disbanded and replaced with a new one. Shortly before that happened, Sutskever

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that he “deeply regre[tted his] participation in the board’s actions” and that he will do everything he can “to reunite the company.” He then stepped down from his role as a board member, and while he remained Chief Scientist,

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says he never really returned to work.

Sutskever shared that he’s moving on to a new project that’s “very personally meaningful” to him, though he has yet to share details about it. As for OpenAI, it recently unveiled GPT-4o, which it claims can recognize emotion and can process and generate output in text, audio and images.

Ilya and OpenAI are going to part ways. This is very sad to me; Ilya is easily one of the greatest minds of our generation, a guiding light of our field, and a dear friend. His brilliance and vision are well known; his warmth and compassion are less well known but no less…

— Sam Altman (@sama)

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