I’m returning to OpenAI as CEO. Mira will return to her function 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 in regards to the future. I’m extraordinarily grateful for everybody’s onerous work in an unclear and unprecedented state of affairs, and I consider 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 wish to share some thanks.
I like and respect Ilya, I believe he’s a guiding gentle of the sphere and a gem of a human being. I harbor zero sick 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 answer that greatest 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 function in serving to us attain this consequence. Emmett’s dedication to AI security and balancing stakeholders’ pursuits was clear.
Mira did a tremendous job all through all of this, serving the mission, the group, and the corporate selflessly all through. She is an unimaginable chief and OpenAI wouldn’t be OpenAI with out her. Thanks.
Greg and I are companions in working this firm. We have now by no means fairly discovered the way to talk that on the org chart, however we are going to. Within the meantime, I simply needed to make it clear. Thanks for every part you have got executed because the very starting, and for a way you dealt with issues from the second this began and over the previous few days.
The management group–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 decide 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 arms, and I hope that is abundantly clear to everybody. Thanks all.
Jakub, Szymon, and Aleksander are distinctive skills and I’m so pleased they’ve rejoined to maneuver us and our analysis ahead. Thanks.
To all of you, our group: I’m certain books are going to be written about this time interval, and I hope the very first thing they are saying is how superb the whole group has been. Now that we’re by way of all of this, we didn’t lose a single worker. You stood agency for one another, this firm, and our mission. Probably the most necessary issues for the group that builds AGI safely is the power to deal with worrying and unsure conditions, and keep common sense all through. High marks. Thanks all.
Satya, Kevin, Amy, and Brad have been unimaginable companions all through this, with precisely the proper priorities all through. 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 proper 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 help and love, and it helped all of us get by way 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 unimaginable quantity to help the mission. I don’t know the way they did it so properly, however they actually did. Thanks.
Ollie additionally put his life on maintain this complete time to simply do every part he may to assist out, along with offering his ordinary unconditional love and help. Thanks and I like you.
So what’s subsequent?
We have now three fast priorities.
● Advancing our analysis plan and additional investing in our full-stack security efforts, which have all the time been important to our work. Our analysis roadmap is obvious; this was a splendidly focusing time. I share the joy you all really feel; we are going to flip this disaster into a possibility! I’ll work with Mira on this.
● Persevering with to enhance and deploy our merchandise and serve our prospects. It’s necessary that individuals get to expertise the advantages and promise of AI, and have the chance to form it. We proceed to consider 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, prospects, companions and governments around the globe is obvious.
● Bret, Larry, and Adam can 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 assessment of latest occasions. I stay up for working intently with them on these essential steps so everybody will be assured within the stability of OpenAI.
I’m so wanting ahead to ending the job of constructing helpful AGI with you all—greatest group on this planet, greatest mission on this planet.
Love, Sam