OpenAI 周五宣布成立新董事會(huì)，并結(jié)束美國(guó) WilmerHale 律師事務(wù)所對(duì)導(dǎo)致 OpenAI 首席執(zhí)行官 Sam Altman 下臺(tái)的事件的內(nèi)部調(diào)查。

Sam Altman 也將重新加入 OpenAI 董事會(huì)。

新的董事會(huì)成員是：

• 蘇·德斯蒙德·赫爾曼 (Sue Desmond-Hellmann) 博士，比爾和梅琳達(dá)·蓋茨基金會(huì)前首席執(zhí)行官，也是輝瑞公司董事會(huì)成員和總統(tǒng)科學(xué)技術(shù)顧問(wèn)委員會(huì)成員。

• Nicole Seligman，索尼前執(zhí)行副總裁兼全球總法律顧問(wèn)、索尼娛樂(lè)總裁，同時(shí)也是派拉蒙全球、Meira GTx 和 Intuitive Machines, Inc. 的董事會(huì)成員。

• Fidji Simo，Instacart 首席執(zhí)行官兼董事長(zhǎng)，同時(shí)也是 Shopify 董事會(huì)成員。

據(jù)一份新聞稿稱(chēng)，這三名新成員將“與現(xiàn)任董事會(huì)成員 Adam D'Angelo、Larry Summers 和 Bret Taylor 以及 Greg、Sam 和 OpenAI 的高級(jí)管理層密切合作”。

根據(jù) Zoom 與記者的電話(huà)會(huì)議，OpenAI 將繼續(xù)擴(kuò)大董事會(huì)規(guī)模。

泰勒說(shuō)：“審查得出的結(jié)論是，前任董事會(huì)與薩姆和格雷格之間的信任嚴(yán)重破裂。”他補(bǔ)充說(shuō)，審查還“得出結(jié)論，董事會(huì)的行為是善意的……[并且]沒(méi)有預(yù)料到會(huì)出現(xiàn)一些不穩(wěn)定的情況”。這導(dǎo)致了后來(lái)的事情。”

泰勒還表示，董事會(huì)的擔(dān)憂(yōu)并不是針對(duì)產(chǎn)品安全和安保、OpenAI 的財(cái)務(wù)或向客戶(hù)或業(yè)務(wù)合作伙伴的聲明，這“只是董事會(huì)與 Altman 先生之間信任的破裂”。

WilmerHale 的調(diào)查于 12 月開(kāi)始，律師今天提交了報(bào)告，其中包括對(duì) OpenAI 前任董事會(huì)成員和顧問(wèn)、現(xiàn)任高管和其他證人的數(shù)十次采訪(fǎng)。

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OpenAI 董事會(huì)主席 Bret Taylor 在一份新聞稿中表示：“我們一致認(rèn)為 Sam 和 Greg 是 OpenAI 的合適領(lǐng)導(dǎo)者。”

“我非常感謝布雷特、拉里和威爾默黑爾，”奧特曼在接受記者采訪(fǎng)時(shí)表示。

在談到首席技術(shù)官 Mira Murati 時(shí)，他補(bǔ)充道：“特別是 Mira 一直在為 OpenAI 帶來(lái)進(jìn)步……但在 11 月份的那段時(shí)間里，她在幫助領(lǐng)導(dǎo)公司方面做得非常出色。”

他補(bǔ)充說(shuō)，他“很高興能在這里向前邁進(jìn)”，也很高興局勢(shì)“結(jié)束”。

他還提到，他希望自己在與董事會(huì)的意見(jiàn)分歧方面采取不同的行動(dòng)。

In November, OpenAI's board ousted Altman, prompting resignations – or threats of resignations – including an open letter signed by virtually all of OpenAI's employees, and uproar from investors, including Microsoft. Within a week, Altman was back at the company, and board members Helen Toner, Tasha McCauley and Ilya Sutskever, who had voted to oust Altman, were out. Adam D'Angelo, who had also voted to oust Altman, stayed on the board.

When Altman was asked about Sutskever's status on the Zoom call with reporters, he said there were no updates to share.

"I love Ilya... I hope we work together for the rest of our careers, my career, whatever," Altman said. "Nothing to announce today."

Since then, OpenAI has announced new board members, including former Salesforce co-CEO Bret Taylor and former Treasury Secretary Larry Summers. Microsoft obtained a nonvoting board observer position.

After ChatGPT's launch in November 2022, it broke records at the time as the fastest-growing consumer app in history, and now has about 100 million weekly active users, along with more than 92% of Fortune 500 companies using the platform, according to OpenAI. Last year, Microsoft invested an additional $10 billion in the company, making it the biggest AI investment of the year, according to PitchBook, and OpenAI has reportedly closed a deal that will allow employees to sell shares at an $86 billion valuation, though the deal reportedly took longer to close than expected due to the events surrounding Altman's ouster.

The rollercoaster couple of weeks at the company are still affecting it months later.

This month, billionaire tech magnate Elon Musk sued OpenAI co-founders Sam Altman and Greg Brockman for breach of contract and breach of fiduciary duty, court filings revealed on Thursday.

In his complaint, Musk and his attorneys allege that the ChatGPT maker "has been transformed into a closed-source de facto subsidiary of the largest technology company in the world: Microsoft." They also argue that this arrangement goes against a founding agreement and 2015 certification of incorporation that OpenAI established with Musk, who was a pivotal donor to a cofounder of OpenAI in its early years.

As part of Microsoft's contract with OpenAI, the tech giant only has rights to OpenAI's "pre-AGI" technology, and it is up to OpenAI's board to determine whether the company has reached that milestone. Musk argued in his filing that since the OpenAI board shuffle in November – when Toner, McCauley and Sutskever were removed – the new board is "ill-equipped" to independently determine whether OpenAI has reached AGI and therefore whether its technology is outside the scope of the exclusivity deal with Microsoft.

Lawyers told CNBC that they had doubts about the legal viability of Musk's case, and OpenAI has said it plans to file a motion to dismiss all of Musk's claims.

為了回應(yīng)這起備受矚目的訴訟，OpenAI 轉(zhuǎn)載了馬斯克的舊電子郵件，其中這位特斯拉和 SpaceX 首席執(zhí)行官鼓勵(lì)這家新興初創(chuàng)公司籌集至少 10 億美元的資金，并同意隨著時(shí)間的推移，它應(yīng)該“開(kāi)始變得不那么開(kāi)放”，并且“不與公眾分享”公司的科學(xué)知識(shí)。

馬斯克提起訴訟之前，奧特曼之前的芯片努力和投資也引發(fā)了一些爭(zhēng)議。

據(jù)報(bào)道，就在奧特曼短暫下臺(tái)之前，他正在為一家代號(hào)為“Tigris”的新的、尚未成立的芯片企業(yè)尋求數(shù)十億美元的資金，以最終與英偉達(dá)競(jìng)爭(zhēng)，他前往中東向投資者籌集資金。

2018年，Altman個(gè)人投資了一家名為Rain Neuromorphics的AI芯片初創(chuàng)公司，總部位于OpenAI舊金山總部附近，2019年，OpenAI簽署了一份意向書(shū)，斥資5100萬(wàn)美元購(gòu)買(mǎi)Rain的芯片。

去年 12 月，美國(guó)迫使沙特阿美支持的一家風(fēng)險(xiǎn)投資公司出售其在 Rain 的股份。

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