Sam Altman and Greg Brockman return to the OpenAI board

The members of the transition board, formed after Altman’s dismissal in November, will not resign with the appointment of new people, the OpenAI press service reports. In this way, the board of directors will increase to eight people.

Salesforce co-CEO Bret Taylor (current president of OpenAI), Quora CEO Adam D’Angelo, and Larry Summers, an economist and former president of Harvard, will remain in their positions on the board, as will Dee Templeton, designated observer of the Microsoft board of directors.

An internal review by contract law firm WilmerHale found that Altman’s firing was the result of a “broken relationship and loss of trust” between him and the previous board of directors, and not “concerns about product safety, pace development or OpenAI capability. finance.”

In the end, the board vote showed rare unanimity, with Bret Taylor commenting: “We unanimously agreed that Sam and Greg are the right leaders for OpenAI. “We recognize the scope of our role in advancing transformative technologies for the benefit of the world.”

In addition to the new appointments, the OpenAI board also intends to implement a new set of corporate governance guidelines, create an additional mission and strategy committee, and strengthen internal conflict of interest policies (e.g., providing a hotline for “anonymous reporting for everyone”). OpenAI employees and contractors.” ).