The time has come for Ilya Sutskever to leave OpenAI. The co-founder and chief scientist officially said goodbye to OpenAI after almost a decade spent working on the development of the company. The scientist and researcher made an announcement on X where he announced his departure after a long time when he kept his presence private from the public eye.
After his attempt to fire Sam Altman, the CEO of the company this November and the chaos created, Sutskever has decided to part ways with OpenAI. His decision to leave the company came as a response to Sam Altman's reinstalment after employees threatened to quit. However, Sutskever’s leaving the company doesn’t mean that he is no longer planning to reaper on the public spectrum as he announced that he is working on a new project: “I am excited for what comes next—a project that is very personally meaningful to me about which I will share details in due time.”
Credits: Post by Ilya Sutskever on X
On Tuesday, Altman posted on social media sharing his thoughts about Sustkever leaving:
“Ilya and OpenAI are going to part ways. This is very sad to me; Ilya is easily one of the greatest minds of our generation, a guiding light of our field, and a dear friend. His brilliance and vision are well known; his warmth and compassion are less well known but no less important.
OpenAI would not be what it is without him. Although he has something personally meaningful he is going to go work on, I am forever grateful for what he did here and committed to finishing the mission we started together. I am happy that for so long I got to be close to such genuinely remarkable genius, and someone so focused on getting to the best future for humanity.
Jakub is going to be our new Chief Scientist. Jakub is also easily one of the greatest minds of our generation; I am thrilled he is taking the baton here. He has run many of our most important projects, and I am very confident he will lead us to make rapid and safe progress towards our mission of ensuring that AGI benefits everyone.”
In his post, Altman announced that Sutskever’s position would be occupied by Jakub Pachocki, who had been working at OpenAI since 2017.
The announcement of Sutskever leaving the company came only a day after OpenAI released their new GPT-4o which will revolutionize the generative artificial intelligence industry, being the start of a more human-like behavior of AI.
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