Altman Returns to OpenAI. The Board? Not So Much.
On Wednesday, Altman and Brockman returned to OpenAI as conquering heroes. Quora CEO Adam D’Angelo would be the only board member to stay in order to maintain some continuity.
OpenAI’s board of directors now features Larry Summers, a former US Treasury Secretary and board member at Jack Dorsey’s Block, as well as Bret Taylor, the co-creator of Google Maps who has had tenures at Facebook and Salesforce and served on boards at Spotify and Twitter. The new team undoubtedly represents Altman’s interests in advancing OpenAI’s economic interests and fighting policy in Washington.
While it may seem like the dust has settled, we still don’t know why Altman was fired in the first place and that question is not going away.
