One day after OpenAI presented a new super-advanced version of ChatGPT called GPT-4o, the company announced that its chief scientist, Ilya Sutskever, is leaving the company.
Ilya Sutskever, co-founder and chief scientist of OpenAI, has left the company. The former Google AI researcher was one of the four board members who voted in November to fire the CEO of OpenAI, Sam Altman, which triggered days of chaos where staff threatened to resign en masse and Altman was eventually reinstated.
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Altman confirmed Sutskever’s departure on Tuesday in a Twitter post. In the months following Altman’s return to OpenAI, Sutskever had rarely made public appearances for the company.
On Monday, OpenAI unveiled a new version of ChatGPT capable of engaging in fast and emotive conversations. Sutskever was noticeably absent from the event, which was livestreamed from the company’s offices in San Francisco.
“OpenAI wouldn’t be what it is without him,” Altman wrote in his post about Sutskever’s departure. “I’m glad to have been close to such a genuinely remarkable genius for so long, and someone so focused on achieving the best future for humanity.”
Sutskever’s position, said Sam Altman, will be filled by Jakub Pachocki, current research director at OpenAI. This way the transition will be smooth and without the need for a landing, since Pachocki has been at OpenAI since 2017.
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