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OpenAI's founding team initially consisted of eleven people, including Elon Musk. Now Musk is suing the company for allegedly violating its founding mission, and several of OpenAI's co-founders are resigning from their positions.
Late Monday, OpenAI co-founder John Schulman announced on X that he was leaving the company and joining rival AI company Anthropic, saying his decision was personal and not based on a lack of support for AI safety research.
“My decision is a personal one,” he wrote, later adding that he would “continue to support” the OpenAI team “even if I work elsewhere.”
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Schulman's departure coincides with the departure of another OpenAI co-founder from the company. On Monday, OpenAI President Greg Brockman announced he would be taking an extended sabbatical for the rest of the year.
I'm taking a break until the end of the year. Time to relax for the first time since co-founding OpenAI 9 years ago. The mission is far from complete; we still need to build a secure AGI.
— Greg Brockman (@gdb) August 6, 2024
Brockman, CEO Sam Altman and Wojciech Zaremba, head of a research and language team, are the only members of OpenAI's 2015 founding team still at the company.
The rest, including former OpenAI chief scientist Ilya Sutskever, have left the company; Sutskever founded his own company Safe Superintelligence in June.
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According to The Information, Peter Deng, OpenAI's vice president of consumer products, also left OpenAI on Monday, even though he was not part of the founding team.
OpenAI has been embroiled in controversy recently. Jan Leike, the company's former security chief who left to join Anthropic in May, accused the company of putting “shiny products” ahead of security. That same month, Scarlett Johansson hired legal counsel after noting that ChatGPT's voice sounded “eerily similar” to hers.
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