Sam Altman will not return as CEO of OpenAI and former Twitch boss Emmett Shear will become the new interim CEO, The Information reported on Sunday, citing board director Ilya Sutskever’s statement to staff. company.
Shear co-founded Twitch and retired from the Amazon.com Inc.-owned live video streaming platform earlier this year.
OpenAI did not immediately respond to a Reuters request for comment.
Altman will not return to the company as CEO despite efforts by company executives to bring him back, according to the report, citing Sutskever.
The report did not provide further details.
Reuters could not immediately verify the statement cited by The Information.
Altman and former OpenAI president Greg Brockman joined executives at the company’s San Francisco headquarters on Sunday after interim CEO Mira Murati told staff she invited Altman, The Information reported earlier on Sunday.
Altman is discussing a possible return to the company behind the ChatGPT bot and improving the company’s governance structure, even as he considers launching a new artificial intelligence (AI) company, Reuters reported on Sunday.
On Friday, the company’s board of directors fired Altman, who to many was the human face of generative AI, sending shockwaves through the tech industry.
Altman posted an image of himself wearing an OpenAI guest badge on messaging platform
