SAN FRANCISCO: OpenAI co-founder Ilya Sutskever announced on Tuesday his departure from the startup that launched the artificial intelligence race with the release of ChatGPT.
Sutskever said on X (formerly Twitter) that he was leaving after nearly a decade at OpenAI, whose “trajectory was just wonderful.”
“I am confident that OpenAI will create AGI that is both secure and beneficial,” he added, referring to artificial general intelligence, a digital technology that is designed to perform as well as or better than human cognitive functions.
Sutskever, OpenAI’s chief scientist, served on the board that voted to oust CEO and co-founder Sam Altman last November.
The takedown caused turmoil at the San Francisco startup, and OpenAI’s board rehired Altman days later after a revolt from employees and investors.
Sutskever’s position on the board was not renewed, but he remained in his position at OpenAI.
“The cooperation was an honor and a privilege for me. I will miss everyone very much,” Suckewer said about his colleagues in his post.
He added that he would focus on a personal project.
On Monday, OpenAI released a more powerful and even more human version of the artificial intelligence technology that underpins ChatGPT, making it free for all users.
The novel mode, GPT-4o, will be rolled out to OpenAI products in the next few weeks, the company said, and paid customers will have unlimited access to the tool.
The company says the model can generate content or understand voice, text or image commands.
“Artificial intelligence seems to come from the movies,” Altman said in a blog post.
Altman has previously pointed to Scarlett Johansson’s character in “Her” as an inspiration for where he would like interaction with artificial intelligence to go.
Google also showed off its latest artificial intelligence innovations at its annual developer conference on Tuesday.
OpenAI and Microsoft are in a fierce competition with Google to be a major player in the generative AI market, but Facebook owner Meta and upstart Anthropic are also taking substantial steps to compete.
There will come a day when “digital brains will be as good or even better than ours,” Sutskever said during a speech at the TED AI Summit in San Francisco behind schedule last year.
“AGI will have a dramatic impact on every area of life.”
Sutskever said on X (formerly Twitter) that he was leaving after nearly a decade at OpenAI, whose “trajectory was just wonderful.”
“I am confident that OpenAI will create AGI that is both secure and beneficial,” he added, referring to artificial general intelligence, a digital technology that is designed to perform as well as or better than human cognitive functions.
Sutskever, OpenAI’s chief scientist, served on the board that voted to oust CEO and co-founder Sam Altman last November.
The takedown caused turmoil at the San Francisco startup, and OpenAI’s board rehired Altman days later after a revolt from employees and investors.
Sutskever’s position on the board was not renewed, but he remained in his position at OpenAI.
“The cooperation was an honor and a privilege for me. I will miss everyone very much,” Suckewer said about his colleagues in his post.
He added that he would focus on a personal project.
On Monday, OpenAI released a more powerful and even more human version of the artificial intelligence technology that underpins ChatGPT, making it free for all users.
The novel mode, GPT-4o, will be rolled out to OpenAI products in the next few weeks, the company said, and paid customers will have unlimited access to the tool.
The company says the model can generate content or understand voice, text or image commands.
“Artificial intelligence seems to come from the movies,” Altman said in a blog post.
Altman has previously pointed to Scarlett Johansson’s character in “Her” as an inspiration for where he would like interaction with artificial intelligence to go.
Google also showed off its latest artificial intelligence innovations at its annual developer conference on Tuesday.
OpenAI and Microsoft are in a fierce competition with Google to be a major player in the generative AI market, but Facebook owner Meta and upstart Anthropic are also taking substantial steps to compete.
There will come a day when “digital brains will be as good or even better than ours,” Sutskever said during a speech at the TED AI Summit in San Francisco behind schedule last year.
“AGI will have a dramatic impact on every area of life.”
