Elyssa Lopez · · 2 min readOpenAI founding scientist Ilya Sutskever is leaving the firm
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Ilya Sutskever, co-founder and chief scientist of OpenAI, is leaving the company. Jakub Pachocki, previously the AI firm’s director of research, will take over Sutskever’s chief scientist role, the company said in a statement.
The announcement comes just a day after OpenAI unveiled GPT-4 omni (GPT-4o), the first version of its advanced AI model, which can accept an input in any combination of text, audio, and image, and respond using a combination of these media.
Perhaps infamously, Sutskever led the board vote to fire CEO Sam Altman late last year, a move he later said he regretted.
A report from The New York Times said Sutskever remained an employee of OpenAI after the planned coup against Altman in November. But after Altman’s reinstatement, Sutskever never returned to work, with Pachocki filling in his role since then, the report noted.
In a letter to employees posted on OpenAI’s website, Altman called Sutskever “easily one of the greatest minds of our generation, a guiding light of our field, and a dear friend.”
Sutskever’s next act is something “very personally meaningful” that he will share more about in “due time,” he said in a post on X (formerly Twitter). However, The New York Times noted in its report that Jan Leike, Sutskever’s co-lead on OpenAI’s Superalignment team, also left the company.
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Editing by Putra Muskita and Lorenzo Kyle Subido
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