OpenAI co-founder Greg Brockman is leaving, too::OpenAI co-founder Greg Brockman announced that he’s quitting just hours after CEO Sam Altman was fired. OpenAI chief technology officer Mira Murati is taking over as interim CEO.

  • Hotzilla@sopuli.xyz
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    1 year ago

    OpenAI is not publicly traded company, but they have of course sold shares to other parties.

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      1 year ago

      It’s a little more complicated than that. OpenAI’s core business is a non-profit, and nobody has shares in it that generate any kind of returns. Any extra money they make is either reinvested, donated to another non-profit, or just sits in a bank account until they do one of the first two things.

      There is a for-profit arm of it, though, and some people do have shares in that.

      The board in question runs the non-profit part.

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      1 year ago

      It’s traded enough that a board could fire the other founder.

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        1 year ago

        Sure, Microsoft owns 49% so they just need extra 1% support from other stakeholders to run the show.