I’m returning to OpenAI as CEO. Mira will return to her role as CTO. The brand new initial board will consist of Bret Taylor (Chair), Larry Summers, and Adam D’Angelo.

I even have never been more excited concerning the future. I’m extremely grateful for everybody’s labor in an unclear and unprecedented situation, and I consider our resilience and spirit set us apart within the industry. I feel so, so good about our probability of success for achieving our mission.

Before attending to what comes next, I’d prefer to share some thanks.

I really like and respect Ilya, I believe he’s a guiding light of the sector and a gem of a human being. I harbor zero ailing will towards him. While Ilya will not serve on the board, we hope to proceed our working relationship and are discussing how he can proceed his work at OpenAI.

I’m grateful to Adam, Tasha, and Helen for working with us to come back to this solution that best serves the mission. I’m excited to proceed to work with Adam and am sincerely thankful to Helen and Tasha for investing an enormous amount of effort on this process.

Thank you furthermore may to Emmett who had a key and constructive role in helping us reach this consequence. Emmett’s dedication to AI safety and balancing stakeholders’ interests was clear.

Mira did an incredible job throughout all of this, serving the mission, the team, and the corporate selflessly throughout. She is an incredible leader and OpenAI wouldn’t be OpenAI without her. Thanks.

Greg and I are partners in running this company. We’ve never quite discovered methods to communicate that on the org chart, but we’ll. Within the meantime, I just desired to make it clear. Thanks for all the pieces you’ve got done for the reason that very starting, and for a way you handled things from the moment this began and over the past week.

The leadership team–Mira, Brad, Jason, Che, Hannah, Diane, Anna, Bob, Srinivas, Matt, Lilian, Miles, Jan, Wojciech, John, Jonathan, Pat, and lots of more–is clearly able to run the corporate without me. They are saying one strategy to evaluate a CEO is how you choose and train your potential successors; on that metric I’m doing much better than I noticed. It’s clear to me that the corporate is in great hands, and I hope that is abundantly clear to everyone. Thanks all.

Jakub, Szymon, and Aleksander are exceptional talents and I’m so pleased they’ve rejoined to maneuver us and our research forward. Thanks.

To all of you, our team: I’m sure books are going to be written about this time period, and I hope the very first thing they are saying is how amazing the complete team has been. Now that we’re through all of this, we didn’t lose a single worker. You stood firm for one another, this company, and our mission. Probably the most vital things for the team that builds AGI safely is the flexibility to handle stressful and unsure situations, and maintain common sense throughout. Top marks. Thanks all.

Satya, Kevin, Amy, and Brad have been incredible partners throughout this, with exactly the correct priorities all through. They’ve had our backs and were able to welcome all of us if we couldn’t achieve our primary goal. We clearly made the correct alternative to partner with Microsoft and I’m excited that our latest board will include them as a non-voting observer. Thanks.

To our partners and users, thanks for sticking with us. We actually felt the outpouring of support and love, and it helped all of us get through this. The incontrovertible fact that we didn’t lose a single customer will drive us to work even harder for you, and we’re all excited to get back to work.

Will Hurd, Brian Chesky, Bret Taylor and Larry Summers put their lives on hold and did an incredible amount to support the mission. I don’t know the way they did it so well, but they really did. Thanks.

Ollie also put his life on hold this whole time to simply do all the pieces he could to assist out, along with providing his usual unconditional love and support. Thanks and I really like you.

So what’s next?

We’ve three immediate priorities.

Advancing our research plan and further investing in our full-stack safety efforts, which have all the time been critical to our work. Our research roadmap is obvious; this was a splendidly focusing time. I share the thrill you all feel; we’ll turn this crisis into a chance! I’ll work with Mira on this.

Continuing to enhance and deploy our products and serve our customers. It’s vital that folks get to experience the advantages and promise of AI, and have the chance to shape it. We proceed to consider that great products are one of the best strategy to do that. I’ll work with Brad, Jason and Anna to make sure our unwavering commitment to users, customers, partners and governments all over the world is obvious.

Bret, Larry, and Adam will probably be working very hard on the extremely vital task of constructing out a board of diverse perspectives, improving our governance structure and overseeing an independent review of recent events. I look ahead to working closely with them on these crucial steps so everyone could be confident in the soundness of OpenAI. 

I’m so looking forward to ending the job of constructing helpful AGI with you all—best team on the earth, best mission on the earth.

Love,

Sam