It has been a wild ride for OpenAI in the past week or so. Both current and former employees have started to speak up about the OpenAI’s future.
Chaos kicked off last week when several prominent employees, including OpenAI’s chief technology officer Mira Murati and top researchers Barret Zoph and Bob McGrew announced that they were leaving the company.
A day later, OpenAI CEO Sam Altman confirmed the rumors that the company was indeed considering ditching its non-profit status and becoming a for-profit company instead.
This has sparked a lot of discussion and debate about the direction in which OpenAI is heading and what it means for the future of the company and AI.
OpenAI is has keep complete silence regarding this whole restructuring situation. They have not made any official announcements but CEO Sam Altman did mention that they are exploring this change as a way to reach their next stage of development.
This shift towards becoming a for-profit company seems to be connected to the fact that they want to raise billions in new investments.
Naturally, people are curious about what’s really going on behind the scenes at OpenAI, especially with the recent resignations of several key executives and researchers.
