OpenAI staff threatens to quit unless board resigns

By Al Mayadeen English
Source: Agencies
20 Nov 2023 21:52

Aside from Chief Technology Officer Mira Murati, Chief Data Scientist Ilya Sutskever, and Chief Operating Officer Brad Lightcap, roughly 500 OpenAI employees have announced their resignation.

The logo for OpenAI, maker of ChatGPT, appears on a phone in NYC on January 31, 2023. (AP)

According to a letter obtained by Reuters, OpenAI's workforce has threatened to leave the artificial intelligence firm and join former leader Sam Altman at Microsoft's (MSFT.O) new subsidiary unless the board resigns.

Aside from Chief Technology Officer Mira Murati, Chief Data Scientist Ilya Sutskever, and Chief Operating Officer Brad Lightcap, roughly 500 OpenAI employees have announced their resignation, according to a source close to the discussions.

In August, a report published in Analytics India Magazine warned that Artificial Intelligence company OpenAI may go bankrupt by the end of 2024 if it doesn't generate enough profit soon.

The report explained that while Sam Altman's company spends almost $700,000 per day to run AI studio ChatGPT, Microsoft and several other investors are covering these costs at their own expense.

"Microsoft’s $10 billion investment in OpenAI is possibly keeping the company afloat at the moment," the report indicated.