Ilya Sutskever, OpenAI chief scientist and ChatGPT-4 creator, is officially leaving the company he co-founded nine years ago. Jakub Pachocki, the company’s director of research, will be OpenAI’s new chief scientist, the company said. Pachocki led the development of GPT-4 and OpenAI Five.
As you may all remember, Sutskever played a role in the decision that led to the oustering of the company’s co-founder and CEO, Sam Altman. He later changed his mind saying that “[He] deeply regret [his] participation in the board’s actions.” Sutskever’s employment status had been ambiguous since November of last year.
OpenAI would not be what it is without him,” Altman wrote in a message to the company, which OpenAI posted on its blog. In a post on X, Sutskever said,
After almost a decade, I have made the decision to leave OpenAI. The company’s trajectory has been nothing short of miraculous, and I’m confident that OpenAI will build AGI that is both safe and beneficial under the leadership of @sama, @gdb, @miramurati and now, under the…
— Ilya Sutskever (@ilyasut) May 14, 2024
“I deeply regret my participation in the board’s actions. I never intended to harm OpenAI. I love everything we’ve built together and I will do everything I can to reunite the company,” Sutskever shared on X.
Ilya Sutskever is a Russian-born computer scientist and a co-founder of OpenAI. Renowned for his role as the creator of ChatGPT-4, Sutskever currently serves as both a board member and the Chief Scientist at OpenAI. His significant contributions to the realm of deep learning have marked his influence in the field.
