Then Things Got Really Weird
Almost as soon as Altman was fired, Greg Brockman resigned. Brockman was a co-founder, president, and chairman of the board at OpenAI. It soon became clear that there was a schism among the board’s six members and most reports found that the anti-Altman faction was led by the company’s Chief Scientist, Ilya Sutskever. Sutskever had reportedly been disturbed by a technological breakthrough the company had achieved.
Rumors started circulating that OpenAI employees and investors (especially Microsoft) weren’t happy with Altman’s ouster and negotiations had begun to bring him back as CEO.
