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OpenAI co-founder Ilya Sutskever exits company that makes ChatGPT

OUR BUREAU The Open AI chief scientist has in November
along with three other board members forced out
San Francisco, CA
Sam Atlman, before saying he regretted the move.
icrosoft-backed OpenAI co-founder As a graduate student at the University of To-
and chief scientist Ilya Sutskever is exit- ronto, Sutskever had been part of an A.I. break-
Ming the US-based Artificial Intelligence through involving neural networks -- the technology
company, its Chief Executive Officer Sam Altman that has driven the field’s progress over the last de-
announced. The artificial intelligence research and cade, reported NYT
development startup, which was founded by Elon OpenAI in a posting on its blog announced that
Musk, Sam Altman and others in the year 2015, is Jakub Pachocki, the company’s director of research,
best known for ChatGPT, a chatbot driven by gener- is being promoted to chief scientist.
ative AI that allows one to have human like conver- Meanwhile, on Tuesday, OpenAI unveiled a
sations with it to get answers on a seemingly unlim- new version of its ChatGPT chatbot that can receive
ited range of topics ranging from debugging games, and respond to voice commands, images and videos.
composing poems, emails and essays among others. The company said the new app -based on an
Altman, in a post on X on Wednesday said, Artificial Intelligence system called GPT-4- juggles
“Ilya and OpenAI are going to part ways.” audio, images and video significantly faster than pre-
“This is very sad to me; Ilya is easily one of the vious versions of the technology. The app will be avail-
greatest minds of our generation, a guiding light of The Open AI chief scientist has in November along with three able for both smartphones and desktop computers.
our field, and a dear friend,” Altman said. “His bril- other board members forced out Sam Atlman (File photo) According to a NYT report, the new app is part
liance and vision are well known; his warmth and of a wider effort to combine conversational chatbots
compassion are less well known but no less import- will build AGI that is both safe and beneficial.” like ChatGPT with voice assistants like the Google
ant,” the OpenAI CEO posted. He went on to add, “I am excited for what comes Assistant and Apple’s Siri. As Google merges its
Sutskever also took to X to tweet, “After almost next - a project that is very personally meaningful Gemini chatbot with the Google Assistant, Apple
a decade, I have made the decision to leave Ope- to me about which I will share details in due time,” is preparing a new version of Siri that is more con-
nAI. The company’s trajectory has been nothing Sutskever, 38, said announcing his decision to leave versational.
short of miraculous, and I’m confident that OpenAI the company that he co-founded in the year 2015. (With agency reports)

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