Sam Altman returns to OpenAI as CEO amid ouster of board members

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Sam Altman is back as CEO of ChatGPT developer OpenAI, the company he co-founded in 2015. In a post on X, aka Twitter, OpenAI announced that it reached an agreement in principle for Sam Altman to return to OpenAI as CEO following his dismissal last week, and with a new board of directors.

The new board members will be former Salesforce co-CEO Bret Taylor as chair, former U.S. Treasury Secretary Larry Summers, and Quora CEO and existing board member Adam D'Angelo. Gone in the board shakeup are Ilya Sutskever, Helen Toner, and Tasha McCauley. All three had voted to dismiss Altman as CEO, as did D'Angelo.

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