Microsoft’s premature release of GPT-4 test in India contributed to Sam Altman’s ouster from OpenAI: WSJ report

In November 2023, OpenAI’s board sacked chief executive officer Sam Altman without offering much detail beyond a statement that the leader of the company was not “consistently candid” with its directors.

Over a year on, many factors have come to light which could have led to Altman’s ouster. One of them is Microsoft, an investor in OpenAI, releasing a test of the still-unreleased GPT-4 in India, according to a report by The Wall Street Journal.

This was the first time the revolutionary code was being unveiled in the world, and it was done without approval from the joint safety board. As per the report, this information never reached OpenAI’s board. One of the independent board members was told the information by an employee after a six-hour board meeting, during which Altman failed to mention the breach, the report said.

Altman officially returned to the AI company days after the shocking ouster. Upon his return, Altman penned a heartfelt note thanking his peers, employees at OpenAI (who went to the extent of threatening to quit if he was not reinstated), investors, including Microsoft chief Satya Nadella, and others, including Airbnb CEO Brian Chesky, who rallied for his return.

As per the report, an OpenAI board member also heard that OpenAI’s Startup Fund, launched in 2021 to invest in AI-related startups supposedly managed by OpenAI, was not sharing profits from the fund with the investors.

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Way back when, the board also hadn’t been informed when OpenAI released ChatGPT, which ended up changing the AI world order. Since then, OpenAI has been hit by many senior-level exits.

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