I am returning to OpenAI as CEO. Mira will return to her function as CTO. The brand new preliminary board consists of Brett Taylor (chair), Larry Summers, and Adam DeAngelo.
I’ve by no means been extra excited in regards to the future. We deeply respect everybody’s laborious work throughout these unsure and unprecedented occasions, and imagine our resilience and fortitude are distinctive in our business. We really feel superb about our possibilities of success in attaining our mission.
Earlier than I clarify additional, I want to specific my gratitude.
I really like and respect Ilya. I feel he’s a guiding gentle on this area and a gem of a human being. I’ve no in poor health will in direction of him in any respect. Though Ilya will not serve on the board, we want to proceed our collaboration and are discussing how he can proceed his work at OpenAI.
Thanks to Adam, Tasha, and Helen for working with us to reach at this answer that most closely fits our mission. I’m excited to proceed working with Adam and am extraordinarily grateful to Helen and Tasha for his or her laborious work on this course of.
We’d additionally prefer to thank Mr. Emmett for his necessary and constructive function in reaching this outcome. It was clear that Mr. Emmett is enthusiastic about balancing the security of his AI with the pursuits of his stakeholders.
Mila has carried out an ideal job via all of this, selflessly serving the mission, group, and firm. She is a good chief and with out her OpenAI would not be OpenAI. thanks.
Greg and I are companions in working this firm. I am not totally positive the right way to talk that on the org chart but, however I plan on doing so. For now, I simply needed to make one thing clear. I need to thanks all for every part you’ve got carried out from the start and the way you’ve got dealt with issues from the second this began till final week.
The administration group, together with Mila, Brad, Jason, Che, Hannah, Diane, Anna, Bob, Srinivas, Matt, Lillian, Miles, Jan, Wojciech, John, Jonathan, and Pat, is clearly ready to run the corporate with out workers. is accomplished. myself. They are saying a technique he evaluates a CEO is how he selects and trains potential successors. On this metric, I am doing significantly better than I anticipated. It is clear to me that the corporate is in nice fingers, and I hope that is abundantly clear to you as effectively. Thanks everybody.
Jakub, Szymon, and Aleksander are extraordinary abilities, and we’re thrilled to have them rejoin us to maneuver us and our analysis ahead. thanks.
To our group: I feel books will likely be written about this era, however I hope they begin by saying how wonderful our total group was. Now that we have gone via all of this, we’ve not misplaced a single worker. You stood agency for one another, this firm, and our mission. One of the vital necessary issues for a group to securely construct AGI is the power to cope with traumatic and unsure conditions and keep common sense all through. Prime mark. Thanks everybody.
Satya, Kevin, Amy and Brad have been nice companions all through this era and all the time had the suitable priorities. They supported us and have been able to welcome us all, even when we didn’t obtain our main objective. Our option to associate with Microsoft was clearly the suitable one, and we’re excited to incorporate them as non-voting observers on our new board. thanks.
Thanks to all our companions and customers on your continued help. We actually felt the outpouring of help and love and it helped us all get via this example. The truth that we did not lose a single buyer motivates us to work even more durable for our prospects, and we’re all excited to get again to work.
Will Hurd, Brian Chesky, Brett Taylor, and Larry Summers put their lives on the road and made unbelievable contributions to help this mission. I do not understand how they did it so effectively, nevertheless it actually did. thanks.
Ollie has additionally put his life on maintain all through this time to assist in any approach he can, along with providing his unconditional love and help as all the time. Thanks and I really like you.
So what’s subsequent?
We have now three rapid priorities.
We’ll advance our analysis agenda and make investments additional in our full-stack security efforts, that are all the time necessary to our work. Our analysis roadmap is evident. It was a splendidly centered time. I share the joy you are feeling. Let’s flip this disaster into a chance! I am going to strive working with Mira.
We proceed to enhance and introduce merchandise to serve our prospects. It’s important that folks expertise the advantages and promise of AI and have the chance to form it. We proceed to imagine that nice merchandise are the easiest way to realize this. I’ll work with Brad, Jason, and Anna to articulate our unwavering dedication to our customers, prospects, companions, and governments all over the world.
Brett, Larry, and Adam will proceed to work laborious on the crucial process of constructing a board with various views, enhancing our governance construction, and overseeing an unbiased evaluation of latest occasions. . We sit up for working intently with them on these necessary steps so everybody can believe within the stability of his OpenAI.
I am actually wanting ahead to working with you on the world’s finest group and world’s finest mission: constructing worthwhile AGI.
Love,
Sam
