OpenAI’s president, and one of its co-founders, Greg Brockman, has announced his immediate resignation from the company after its co-founder and CEO Sam Altman was abruptly fired on Friday.
The fallout from Friday’s abrupt departure (and now confirmed as a firing) of OpenAI’s CEO and co-founder Sam Altman continues. Greg Brockman, who OpenAI stated was “stepping down as chairman of the board” has announced his resignation as President of the company.
In an X (formerly Twitter) post, Brockman reposted a message he sent to OpenAI employees. He stated that he was “super proud of what we’ve all built together since starting in my apartment 8 years ago”. However, he added, “based on today’s news, i quit.”
Brockman posted a follow-up message on X late on Friday, stating that both Altman and himself “are shocked and saddened by what the board did today”, adding, “We too are still trying to figure out exactly what happened.”
Brockman also posted a timeline of the events he claims happened before Friday’s firing of Altman, He stated that Altman received a message from OpenAI chief scientist and board member Ilya Sutskever on Thursday night to chat on Friday.
On Friday, Brockman claimed that Altman joined a Google Meet session with most of the board members, except for himself, and was told he was being fired.
