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OpenAI co-founder and chief scientist Ilya Sutskever officially leaves the company – he is the most Known for leading the infamous and unsuccessful coup to oust Sam Altman as CEO.
Both Altman and Sutzkever released statements announcing their departure.
“This is very sad for me: Ilya is undoubtedly one of the most brilliant minds of our generation, a reference point in our industry and a good friend. Without him, OpenAI would not be what it is,” Altman wrote on X.
The position of OpenAI's chief scientist will be filled by Jakub Pachocki, who served as the company's director of research. An OpenAI press release said Pachocki “led the development of GPT-4 and OpenAI Five, as well as fundamental research in large-scale RL and deep learning optimization.”
“I'm excited about what's next – a project that means a lot to me. I will share details in due course,” Sutskever wrote in a statement on X.
The Verge also reported that Jan Leike, who led the Superalignment Sutskever team, has left OpenAI. His duties will be taken over by John Shulman, another co-founder of the company who sided with Altman during last year's failed coup.
As a reminder, in November 2023, OpenAI's board removed Sam Altman as CEO, alleging that “he was not consistently forthcoming in his communications, impeding the board's ability to carry out its responsibilities.” Microsoft CEO Satya Nadella announced some time later that Altman and his team would join the corporation to head a new AI research division, and then Sam strangely found himself back in the CEO position at OpenAI.
Ilya Sutskever, a native of Nizhny Novgorod, Russia, began his career at Google, where he was eventually lured away by Elon Musk to OpenAI. He became a co-founder and chief scientist of the company, and Musk left OpenAI in 2018 (officially due to a conflict of interest with Tesla, and rumored to be due to the fact that he was denied a leadership position) and began to actively criticize Altman.
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The media reported that it was Sutzkever who led the coup at OpenAI – although he later stated that he regretted his actions and signed a letter calling for Altman's return.
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