At the end of last week, OpenAI's board of directors fired Sam Altman as the company's CEO, effective immediately, but not before Microsoft, the company's main investor, also announced that they were hiring him, along with several other fired individuals such as Greg Brockman to lead the newly developed Artificial Intelligence division at Microsoft.
But there have been many reports and rumors floating around these days that Sam Altman still wants to lead OpenAI, and discussions have taken place, with Sam Altman saying that the only way he will return to the company is if the company's board of directors is completely changed.
Sam Altman just released a tweet at X saying that he will be returning to OpenAI, possibly taking back his CEO role, along with a new board of directors and the full support of Microsoft CEO Satya Nadella.
Whether or not Satya Nadella had any say in the decision behind OpenAI's board reshuffle is not yet known, but given that he has already come out with his own take on Sam Altman's return as CEO of OpenAI, we're sure that he at least has insider knowledge of what's going on at the company now.
Greg Brockman, OpenAI's former president and chairman of the board also confirmed that he will be returning to OpenAI, most likely taking back his previous positions as well.
In the meantime, OpenAI is confirmed to be present with a new board of directors, consisting of ex-Salesforce CEO, Bret Taylor, ex-US Treasury Secretary, Larry Summers and Quora founder, Adam D'Angelo. Bret Taylor will assume the position of chairman of the board. So far it has not been confirmed whether Ilya Sutskever, Chief Scientist at OpenAI still holds a position as part of the company's board of directors or not.