Sam Altman, CEO of Microsoft-backed OpenAI, denied that there was any connection between the exit of three senior executives at the ChatGPT maker and a planned restructuring of the company, which he said the board had been thinking about for several months, Reuters’ Giulio Piovaccari and Elvira Pollina report. Speaking on stage at the Italian Tech Week conference in Turin, Altman said that “some stuff” reported around the departures of Mira Murati, Barret Zoph, and Bob McGrew were not accurate, adding that such personnel changes had nothing to do with the restructuring, the authors say.
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