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 push out CEO Sam Altman from the company — only to quickly reinstate him. It was Sutskever, OpenAI's chief scientist, who told Altman last November that he was being fired.
Sutskever announced his decision on the social media site X. He said he is working on a new project that is "very personally meaningful" to him, but he offered no other details.
Altman, meanwhile, wrote that parting ways is "very sad" and called Sutskever "one of the greatest minds of our generation, a guiding light of our field, and a dear friend."
Sutskever will be replaced by Jakub Pachocki as chief scientist at San Francisco-based OpenAI. Altman called Pachocki "also easily one of the greatest minds of our More