SAN FRANCISCO — OpenAI on Friday said its CEO Sam Altman would be returning to its board and it also named three new female board members.
The maker of the popular ChatGPT chatbot named Sue Desmond-Hellmann, a former CEO of the Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation; Nicole Seligman, a former executive vice president and general counsel of Sony Entertainment; and Fidji Simo, CEO of Instacart to its new board.
OpenAI’s previous board shocked the tech world in November when it announced Altman’s firing in a Friday afternoon blog post. After five days of wrangling between the board, company executives and OpenAI’s investors, Altman was reinstated as CEO and three of the four board members who fired him stepped down. The fourth, Quora CEO Adam D’Angelo, is part of the current temporary board, but was not part of the subcommittee that led the review into the boardroom crisis, according to a December update to a blog post from OpenAI and the board.
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