Ultraman returns to the board of directors without charge! The truth about OpenAI’s internal strife is revealed, and the investigation results are made public

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Just now, OpenAI CEO Altman officially announced his return to the board of directors!

At the same time, OpenAI also concluded the OpenAI internal strife in November last year:

Announcing the completion of an independent review of the incident, "We agree that Sam (Sam Altman) and Greg (Greg Brockman) are the right leaders for OpenAI."

The announcement of the OpenAI Board of Directors Special Committee also shows that the board of directors will improve OpenAI’s governance structure, and the new members include:

Sue Desmond-Hellmann, an American oncologist and biotechnology leader, served as CEO of the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation from 2014 to 2020.

Nicole Seligman is a legal professional who has provided consulting services to Clinton and Hillary Clinton. She also served as executive vice president and global general counsel of Sony and president of Sony Entertainment.

Fidiji Simo, a consumer technology industry veteran, was the former Vice President and Head of Applications at Facebook.

Previously, when OpenAI reorganized its board of directors after the "Palace Fight", the initial members were:

Former Salesforce CEO, former Meta CTO, former Twitter chairman Bret Taylor (as chairman of the board) , former US Treasury Secretary Larry Summers, and Quora founder Adam D'Angelo.

Microsoft later joined as a non-voting observer.

The new development has attracted heated discussions among the melon-eating people. Of course, at this time, during the melon-eating process, everyone has not forgotten the "business": where is GPT4.5/5? ? ?

Many blind students have discovered Huadian: OpenAI, you boy, after seeing the impact of Claude 3, the GPT-4 Turbo ranking is still first, and you have started squeezing out toothpaste again, right?

The conclusion of the "Palace Fight" is final

On December 8, 2023, 22 days after OpenAI’s annual big melon, OpenAI hired the law firm WilmerHale to conduct a review of Ultraman’s elimination.

After reviewing more than 30,000 documents and conducting dozens of interviews, WilmerHale concluded:

A breakdown of trust between OpenAI's former board of directors and Altman led to the events of November 17.

The former board of directors believed at the time that the action (kicking Ultraman out) would alleviate internal management challenges and did not anticipate that the move would destabilize the company.

The investigation results also emphasized that OpenAI’s former board of directors made such a decision “not out of concerns about product safety, development speed, OpenAI’s finances, etc.,” but because the relationship with Altman himself broke down .

And the decision was implemented in a very short period of time, without even informing investors in advance and without conducting a comprehensive investigation.

Based on the results of this investigation, the OpenAI board of directors officially stated today that it has "full trust" in Altman and Greg Brockman, who "retired" with him at the time.

OpenAI Board Chairman Bret Taylor said:

We all agree that Sam and Greg are the right leaders for OpenAI.

More details of the investigation were not disclosed in OpenAI’s official announcement.

But just before, the New York Times broke the news that Mira Murati, OpenAI’s chief technology officer, who supported Ultraman’s return during the palace dispute and took the lead in posting comments, was also the key to ousting Ultraman. figure.

It was revealed that Mira and Ilya expressed concerns about Ultraman's leadership to the board of directors at about the same time, which became one of the important reasons for the board of directors to remove Ultraman.

But just now, Mira tweeted to refute this statement, saying that the previous board of directors pushed themselves out as a scapegoat for the sake of face, and was "very frustrated" by this move of the former board of directors.

New OpenAI Board Member

Finally, let’s take a look at the new member information and take a look at the new trends of the OpenAI board of directors after this reorganization.

Sue Desmond-Hellmann

Dr. Sue Desmond-Hellmann (66 years old) comes from the medical world and is an American oncologist and biotechnology leader.

Sue currently serves on the board of directors of Pfizer and the President's Council of Advisors on Science and Technology. She also previously served as president of the University of California, San Francisco (UCSF), CEO of the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation, and a member of the board of directors of Facebook.

She received her BS in pre-med and MD from the University of Nevada, Reno, and completed her residency training at UCSF.

In 1989, Sue traveled to Africa with her husband Nicholas, an infectious disease doctor, and served as a visiting professor at the Uganda Cancer Institute for two years.

During this time, they also provided treatment for patients with Kaposi's sarcoma with funding from the Rockefeller Foundation.

After leaving Africa, Sue worked in a private clinic for two years, then returned to the research world and became the deputy director of clinical cancer research at Bristol Myers Squibb Pharmaceutical Research Institute, responsible for the research and development of paclitaxel.

In 1995, she joined Genentech as a clinical scientist, was named chief medical officer the following year, and became executive vice president of development and product operations in 1999.

From 2004 to 2009, she served as President of Product Development, where she played an important role in the development of two of the earliest gene-targeted therapies for cancer, Avastin and Herceptin.
During this period, Sue also served as a member of the board of directors of the American Association for Cancer Research and a member of the executive committee of the board of directors of the Biotechnology Industry Organization.

In 2009, Sue, who left Genentech, received an invitation from UCSF, and in August of that year she officially became the ninth president of the University of California, San Francisco, and the first woman to hold this position.

During her tenure as president, UCSF had tense relations with other UC campuses due to funding issues, and Sue eventually stepped in to ease the situation——

She proposed forming partnerships with private pharmaceutical companies at UCSF to increase its revenue and address its precarious financial situation.

On December 17, 2013, the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation (BMGF) announced the selection of Sue as its next CEO. Until December 2019, Sue announced her resignation from the foundation "due to health and family reasons."

Nicole Seligman

Nicole Seligman (67 years old) comes from the legal field and is a world-renowned lawyer who currently serves on the boards of three listed companies.

Seligman has held a number of senior leadership positions at Sony, including executive vice president and general counsel, overseeing functions such as global legal and legal affairs, and has also served as president of Sony Entertainment and president of Sony America.

During his studies, Seligman received a bachelor's degree in law (1978) and a doctorate (1983) from Harvard University. After graduation, he served as a court clerk and entered the U.S. Supreme Court.

After leaving the court, Seligman worked as a partner in a Washington law firm, where she also defended Clinton in her scandals. CNN and other large media organizations were also her clients.

Seligman spent the 15 years starting in 2001 at Sony. In September of that year, she was hired by the then CEO of Sony America as executive vice president and general counsel; in June 2003, she became the corporate executive officer of Sony Corporation worldwide...

It was not until 2016 that Seligman, who was nearly sixty years old, announced his resignation as president of Sony Entertainment and Sony America, ending his working career at Sony.

Fidiji Simo

Fidiji Simo is currently CEO and Chairman of Instacart, which focuses on providing grocery delivery services similar to "errands".

Prior to this, this French businessman, who was included in Fortune's "Annual Most Powerful Women List", has nearly 15 years of experience in corporate operations, strategy and product development in the field of consumer technology.

Prior to Instacart, she served as vice president and head of apps at Facebook. It was her push to make video an important part of the Facebook experience. In 2021, Simo ended his 10-year working career at Facebook.

Information shows that Simo also participated in the co-creation of Women in Product, a non-profit organization dedicated to promoting the career development of women in the technology field.

Simo is also a member of Shopity's board of directors.

Oh, by the way, except for Ultraman, the other new board members are all women.

Previously, there have been doubts that OpenAI’s reorganized board of directors is composed entirely of white men and lacks diversity and experience in AI research.

It seems to have been completed now. (doge)

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