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Five days of chaos: What just happened at OpenAI?

Nearly as quickly as he left, Sam Altman is back. Following his abrupt and still largely unexplained firing from the influential artificial intelligence developer OpenAI on Friday, the 38-year-old technology entrepreneur will now return to the firm behind ChatGPT and other popular AI programs. The once and future chief executive will answer to a different board of directors than the one that ...
OpenAI CEO Sam Altman speaks during a keynote address announcing ChatGPT integration for Bing at Microsoft in Redmond, Washington, on Feb. 7, 2023.

Nearly as quickly as he left, Sam Altman is back.

Following his abrupt and still largely unexplained firing from the influential artificial intelligence developer OpenAI on Friday, the 38-year-old technology entrepreneur will now return to the firm behind ChatGPT and other popular AI programs.

The once and future chief executive will answer to a different board of directors than the one that fired him late last week, the company wrote on X, formerly Twitter, adding: "We are collaborating to figure out the details."

After a whirlwind week of boardroom

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