SAN FRANCISCO– OpenAI co-founder Ilya Sutskever, one of the original creators of the artificial intelligence technology behind ChatGPT, said Tuesday he is leaving the company after nearly a decade.
Sutskever was one of four board members last fall who voted to oust CEO Sam Altman from the company — only to quickly reinstate him. It was Sutskever, OpenAI's chief scientist, who told Altman he was being fired last November.
Sutskever announced his decision on the social media site
Altman, meanwhile, wrote that saying goodbye is “very sad” and called Sutskever “one of the greatest minds of our generation, a leading light in our field and a dear friend.”
Sutskever will be replaced by Jakub Pachocki as chief scientist at OpenAI in San Francisco. Altman also called Pachocki “easily one of the greatest minds of our generation” and said he is “confident that he will lead us to make rapid and safe progress toward our mission of ensuring AGI provides everyone benefits.”
AGI, short for artificial general intelligence, is a futuristic vision of machines that are as smart as humans or at least can do many things as well as humans.
On Monday, OpenAI introduced an update to its AI model that it says can reason through text, audio and video in real time.
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