Sam Altman To Return As OpenAI CEO, New Initial Board Announced

After several days of ambiguity, OpenAI confirmed on Wednesday that Sam Altman will reassume his role as CEO.

Alongside this, Greg Brockman, who previously resigned from the board of directors following Altman's removal, will also be reinstated at the chatGPT maker.

The newly formed board's initial members include Bret Taylor, former co-CEO of Salesforce, who will take on the role of chairman, Larry Summers, ex-US Treasury Secretary, and Adam D'Angelo, the CEO of the question-and-answer website Quora.

D'Angelo is the sole member who was also the part of the previous board.

"We have reached an agreement in principle for Sam Altman to return to OpenAI as CEO with a new initial board of Bret Taylor (Chair), Larry Summers, and Adam D’Angelo. We are collaborating to figure out the details. Thank you so much for your patience through this,” OpenAI said in a statement on microblogging platform X.

This comes after Microsoft CEO Satya Nadella on Saturday announced that Altman would be joining to lead the company's advance AI research tea,.

Taking to X, Altman said that when he decided to join Microsoft on Sunday evening, “It was clear that was the best path for me and the team. with the new board and w satya’s support, i’m looking forward to returning to openai, and building on our strong partnership with msft.”

“i love openai, and everything i’ve done over the past few days has been in service of keeping this team and its mission together,” he added.