In significant executive shuffling announced On Monday, Opeli extends the duties of COO Brad Lightcap, while the CEO of Altman himself transfers his attention to the technical direction of the company. The message was first Reported By Bloomberg.
Lightcap will be now “Supervise daily operations” According to international expansion and management of key partnerships with technological giants, such as Microsoft and Apple Bloomberg. Opeli also promoted the Chena brand as a research director (he was recently SVP of Research) and Julia Villagra for the Chief Director (previously she was the Vice President for People).
“OpenAI was developing a lot. We focus on the same core – by implementing research on the border that accelerate human progress – but now we provide products used by hundreds of millions of people,” wrote the company in blog posts, announcing changes.
The company said Bloomberg The fact that the latest changes in leadership mean that the general director of the Altman himself “focuses more on conducting research and activities of the manufacturer ChatgPT” and does not plan to replace the former CTO Mira Murati, who drove away in September to launch her own startup AI.
Changes in the leadership of OpenAI change thanks to some free places left by other departures. The startup research director, Bob McGrew, left in September with Murati and vice president after the training Barret Zoph. Altman at that time he said“Of course, I do not pretend that this is natural” for emergencies to leave “but we are not a normal company” and we call changes in leadership “a natural part of companies”.
Modern leadership promotions also lead to the upcoming restructuring of the startup. In December, Opeli announced that he would transform from a non-profit organization into a profit-oriented company that led to the lawsuit of co-founder Elon Musk, who claims that the startup wants to rather achieve maximum profits, and not create artificial intelligence “for the benefit of humanity.”