It took Steve Jobs 12 years to return as CEO after leaving the company he cofounded, and it looked like ousted OpenAI CEO Sam Altman might do it in three days. But late Sunday Emmett Shear, who formerly led Amazon’s streaming platform Twitch, was appointed interim CEO at the AI company, according to multiple outlets. The Information first reported Shear’s appointment.
Shear and OpenAI did not immediately respond to requests for comment.
Shear’s arrival follows a dramatic and chaotic weekend at the world’s most prominent artificial intelligence company, which develops the ChatGPT chatbot.
Altman was suddenly and unexpectedly dismissed Friday, by many accounts after friction between the CEO and other board members, particularly the company’s chief scientist, Ilya Sutskever, over the risks of moving too quickly in developing AI. Greg Brockman, the company’s president was also removed from the board, and quit the company several hours after the announcement was made.
The board initially announced CTO Mira Murati as Altman’s temporary replacement, provoking mixed reactions from employees with some threatening to quit. Meanwhile, investors had urged the board to reconsider its decision to fire Altman, and on Sunday he posted a selfie from inside OpenAI’s offices holding a “guest” badge as the board weighed its next move. Bloomberg reported that the board’s decision to appoint Shear was made in defiance of demands to reinstate Altman.
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