I’m returning to OpenAI as CEO. Mira will return to her position as CTO. The brand new preliminary board will encompass Bret Taylor (Chair), Larry Summers, and Adam D’Angelo.
I’ve by no means been extra excited concerning the future. I’m extraordinarily grateful for everybody’s onerous work in an unclear and unprecedented scenario, and I imagine our resilience and spirit set us aside within the trade. I really feel so, so good about our likelihood of success for attaining our mission.
Earlier than attending to what comes subsequent, I’d prefer to share some thanks.
I like and respect Ilya, I feel he is a guiding mild of the sector and a gem of a human being. I harbor zero in poor health will in direction of him. Whereas Ilya will not serve on the board, we hope to proceed our working relationship and are discussing how he can proceed his work at OpenAI.
I’m grateful to Adam, Tasha, and Helen for working with us to come back to this resolution that finest serves the mission. I’m excited to proceed to work with Adam and am sincerely grateful to Helen and Tasha for investing an enormous quantity of effort on this course of.
Thanks additionally to Emmett who had a key and constructive position in serving to us attain this final result. Emmett’s dedication to AI security and balancing stakeholders’ pursuits was clear.
Mira did an incredible job all through all of this, serving the mission, the crew, and the corporate selflessly all through. She is an unbelievable chief and OpenAI wouldn’t be OpenAI with out her. Thanks.
Greg and I are companions in working this firm. Now we have by no means fairly found out learn how to talk that on the org chart, however we’ll. Within the meantime, I simply needed to make it clear. Thanks for all the things you’ve gotten accomplished because the very starting, and for a way you dealt with issues from the second this began and over the past week.
The management crew–Mira, Brad, Jason, Che, Hannah, Diane, Anna, Bob, Srinivas, Matt, Lilian, Miles, Jan, Wojciech, John, Jonathan, Pat, and lots of extra–is clearly able to run the corporate with out me. They are saying one option to consider a CEO is the way you choose and prepare your potential successors; on that metric I’m doing much better than I noticed. It’s clear to me that the corporate is in nice palms, and I hope that is abundantly clear to everybody. Thanks all.
Jakub, Szymon, and Aleksander are distinctive skills and I’m so comfortable they’ve rejoined to maneuver us and our analysis ahead. Thanks.
To all of you, our crew: I’m positive books are going to be written about this time interval, and I hope the very first thing they are saying is how wonderful all the crew has been. Now that we’re by means of all of this, we didn’t lose a single worker. You stood agency for one another, this firm, and our mission. One of the necessary issues for the crew that builds AGI safely is the flexibility to deal with irritating and unsure conditions, and preserve logic all through. High marks. Thanks all.
Satya, Kevin, Amy, and Brad have been unbelievable companions all through this, with precisely the best priorities all over. They’ve had our backs and have been able to welcome all of us if we couldn’t obtain our main purpose. We clearly made the best option to associate with Microsoft and I’m excited that our new board will embrace them as a non-voting observer. Thanks.
To our companions and customers, thanks for sticking with us. We actually felt the outpouring of assist and love, and it helped all of us get by means of this. The truth that we didn’t lose a single buyer will drive us to work even more durable for you, and we’re all excited to get again to work.
Will Hurd, Brian Chesky, Bret Taylor and Larry Summers put their lives on maintain and did an unbelievable quantity to assist the mission. I don’t understand how they did it so effectively, however they actually did. Thanks.
Ollie additionally put his life on maintain this whole time to only do all the things he may to assist out, along with offering his common unconditional love and assist. Thanks and I like you.
So what’s subsequent?
Now we have three fast priorities.
Advancing our analysis plan and additional investing in our full-stack security efforts, which have at all times been important to our work. Our analysis roadmap is obvious; this was a splendidly focusing time. I share the thrill you all really feel; we’ll flip this disaster into a possibility! I’ll work with Mira on this.
Persevering with to enhance and deploy our merchandise and serve our clients. It’s necessary that folks get to expertise the advantages and promise of AI, and have the chance to form it. We proceed to imagine that nice merchandise are one of the simplest ways to do that. I’ll work with Brad, Jason and Anna to make sure our unwavering dedication to customers, clients, companions and governments around the globe is obvious.
Bret, Larry, and Adam will likely be working very onerous on the extraordinarily necessary job of constructing out a board of various views, bettering our governance construction and overseeing an unbiased evaluation of current occasions. I look ahead to working intently with them on these essential steps so everybody could be assured within the stability of OpenAI.
I’m so trying ahead to ending the job of constructing helpful AGI with you all—finest crew on the earth, finest mission on the earth.
Love,
Sam