{"id":639580,"date":"2024-09-26T03:11:04","date_gmt":"2024-09-26T00:11:04","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/en.buradabiliyorum.com\/openais-chief-research-officer-has-left-following-cto-mira-muratis-exit\/"},"modified":"2024-09-26T03:11:04","modified_gmt":"2024-09-26T00:11:04","slug":"openais-chief-research-officer-has-left-following-cto-mira-muratis-exit","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/buradabiliyorum.com\/en\/openais-chief-research-officer-has-left-following-cto-mira-muratis-exit\/","title":{"rendered":"#OpenAI’s chief research officer has left following CTO Mira Murati’s exit"},"content":{"rendered":"
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OpenAI\u2019s chief research officer, Bob McGrew, and a research VP, Barret Zoph, have left the company hours after OpenAI CTO Mira Murati announced she would be departing. <\/p>\n

CEO Sam Altman revealed the two latest resignations in a post<\/a> on X Wednesday evening, along with leadership transition plans. <\/p>\n

\u201cMira, Bob, and Barret made these decisions independently of each other and amicably,\u201d he said, \u201cbut the timing of Mira\u2019s decision was such that it made sense to now do this all at once, so that we can work together for a smooth handover to the next generation of leadership.\u201d<\/p>\n

VP of research Mark Chen is being promoted to OpenAI\u2019s new SVP of research, and will lead the company\u2019s research org in partnership with Jakub Pachocki as chief scientist, Altman said. <\/p>\n

Matt Knight, formerly head of security, will be OpenAI\u2019s chief information security officer. And chief product officer Kevin Weil and VP of engineering Srinivas Narayanan will continue to lead OpenAI\u2019s app<\/a>lied team, which is responsible for bringing the company\u2019s tech to both enterprise and cosumer customers.<\/p>\n

Josh Achiam, a research scientist, will be taking on a new role as head of mission alignment. Altman says he\u2019ll be \u201cworking across the company to ensure that we get all pieces and culture right to be in a place to succeed at the mission.\u201d<\/p>\n

\u201cMark, Jakub, Kevin, Srinivas, Matt, and Josh will report to me,\u201d Altman added. \u201cI have over the past year or so spent most of my time on the non-technical parts of our organization; I am now looking forward to spending most of my time on the technical and product parts of the company.\u201d<\/p>\n

In his post, Altman tried to assure staff \u2014 and those on the outside looking in \u2014 that the leadership changes were simply the normal course of business. <\/p>\n

\u201cLeadership changes are a natural part of companies, especially companies that grow so quickly and are so demanding,\u201d he said. \u201cI obviously won\u2019t pretend it\u2019s natural for this one to be so abrupt, but we are not a normal company, and I think the reasons Mira explained to me (there is never a good time, anything not abrupt would have leaked, and she wanted to do this while OpenAI was in an upswing) make sense.\u201d<\/p>\n

McGrew said simply that it was \u201ctime for [him] to take a break.\u201d<\/p>\n

\u201cThe last eight years of OpenAI has been a humbling and awe-inspiring journey,\u201d he added in a post<\/a> on X. \u201cThe small nonprofit I joined in January 2017 has become the most important research and deployment company in the world \u2026 I have great confidence in [OpenAI\u2019s] leadership.\u201d<\/p>\n

McGrew joined OpenAI as a member of the technical staff in 2017, and was promoted to VP of research in 2018 before assuming the role of chief research officer.<\/p>\n

Zoph \u2014 who joined OpenAI in 2022 \u2014 said in a post<\/a> that it \u201c[felt] like a natural point\u201d for him to \u201cexplore new opportunities outside of OpenAI.\u201d<\/p>\n

Zoph led the post-training team, which trains and improves OpenAI\u2019s models before they\u2019re deployed into products like ChatGPT and OpenAI\u2019s API and to other internal OpenAI research teams.<\/p>\n

\u201cThis is a personal decision based on how I want to evolve the next phase of my career,\u201d he continued.<\/p>\n

OpenAI\u2019s departing execs may say publicly<\/em> that the splits were amicable. But they come on the heels of reports that OpenAI is plotting a transition from a nonprofit-governed company to a for-profit entity, with Altman set to receive a 7% equity stake.<\/p>\n

Against the backdrop of a reported new funding round valuing OpenAI at $150 billion, disagreements over the company\u2019s direction may\u2019ve been the straw that broke the camel\u2019s back. <\/p>\n

We\u2019ll surely find out more on Thursday, when OpenAI is scheduled to have an all-hands meeting.<\/p>\n

McGrew, Zoph, and Murati are the latest high-level execs to depart OpenAI in recent months. Prominent research scientist Andrej Karpathy left OpenAI in February, Sutskever and former safety leader\u00a0Jan Leike\u00a0announced their departures\u00a0in May, and co-founder\u00a0John Schulman\u00a0said last month that he was leaving to join rival Anthropic. Meanwhile, Greg Brockman, OpenAI\u2019s president, is on extended leave through the end of the year.<\/p>\n

Of the 13 people who helped found OpenAI in 2015, only three remain. <\/p>\n

\u201cBeing a leader at OpenAI is all-consuming,\u201d Altman said in his post. \u201cOn one hand it\u2019s a privilege to \u2026 be the fastest-growing company that gets to put our advanced research in the hands of hundreds of millions of people. On the other hand it\u2019s relentless to lead a team through it \u2014 and they have gone above and beyond the call of duty for the company.\u201d<\/p>\n

OpenAI\u2019s press office didn\u2019t respond. <\/p>\n<\/div>\n

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