'Ctrl Altman Delete': How Sam Altman was pushed out of the world's best-known AI business
Sam Altman has been abruptly ejected from the board of OpenAI, in a move which sent shockwaves through the tech industry and raised questions over the direction of the company amid fears of internal rifts among senior management.
The 37-year-old reportedly received a text from a fellow board member inviting him to an impromptu Google Meet video call yesterday, whereupon Altman discovered he had been fired.
“Today was a weird experience in many ways,” a shaken Altman later posted on X, formally Twitter. ‘Ctrl, Altman, Delete’, as one analyst at JPMorgan succinctly put it in a note on the entrepreneur’s departure.
Altman had been at, and the firm reportedly hitting a valuation of as much as $90 billion. Such was the explosion of hype around ChatGPT, OpenAI soon ran out of server capacity and was forced to turn away customers.
