OpenAI "Coup" 100 Hours: Ultraman Returns Brockman Returns to the Company Overnight to Write Code The former still wants to be on the board

"Science and Technology Innovation Board Daily" on November 22 (Reporter Zhu Ling Zhang Yangyang) With twists and turns, the storm of OpenAI's high-level coup has ushered in a new plot.

At around 2 p.m. Beijing time on Wednesday (10 p.m. local time in Silicon Valley, USA), OpenAI officially announced on the social platform X that it had reached a agreement in principle with Sam Altman, the former CEO who was expelled from the company last Friday, and he will return to OpenAI to continue as CEO.

▍Ultraman confirms his return Brockman went back to write code overnight

2 minutes later, Ultraman retweeted OpenAI's official announcement tweet and responded with the signature "" ❤️ emoji of love.

Immediately after, Altman also posted a tweet saying that he loves OpenAI and that everything he has done in the past few days has been to align the team with its mission. When he decided to join Microsoft on Sunday night, it was clear that this was the best path for himself and his team. With the support of the new board of directors and more, Altman looks forward to returning to OpenAI and cementing its partnership with Microsoft.

At the same time, Microsoft's CEO also posted: "We are encouraged by the change in OpenAI's board of directors. We believe that this is an important first step on the road to more stable, informed and effective governance. Altman, Greg, and I spoke and agreed that they could play a key role with the OAI leadership team to ensure that the OAI continues to thrive and continue to deliver on its mission. We look forward to building strong partnerships to deliver the value of next-generation AI to our customers and partners." ”

Brockman, the former president of OpenAI, who resigned with Ultraman, also tweeted two tweets in a row, one was that he returned to OpenAI overnight to write code, and the other was a group photo with many employees gathered in the company after returning.

▍Change of Board of Directors Ultraman is still seeking to be listed

OpenAI's management change turmoil has undergone many reversals within 100 hours, becoming the biggest "melon" in the global technology circle in the past few days.

Everything seems to be back to its original position, except for OpenAI's board composition. The latest information shows that OpenAI has made concessions on the composition of the board of directors for the return of Ultraman.

It should be pointed out that OpenAI's unique board structure is one of the important reasons for this "coup", and its structure was originally mainly based on OpenAI's non-profit characteristics.

Among the former board members, Ilya Sutskevi, the main person who launched the "oust" operation, and Tasha Macaulay and Helen Toner, conservatives who advocated AI safety, left. One of the original members of the board of directors will be retained, and two new members will be added.

The only remaining member of the original board of directors is Adam DiAngelo, CEO of Quora, a Q&A community that was a prep school classmate of Facebook's founder, Zuckerberg, who helped bring Facebook to life while attending Caltech, and then became Facebook's first chief technology officer, but left in June 2008.

The new board member, one is Summers, who is familiar to investors, is a famous American economist, director of the National Economic Council, the 71st secretary of the U.S. Treasury during the Clinton period, the president of Harvard University from 2001 to 2006, and the National Economic Council (NEC) from 2009 to 2011, and the chief architect of Obama's economic policy.

The other is Brett Taylor, who is also the chairman of OpenAI's new board of directors, having worked at Google, co-founding Google Maps, the Google Maps API, and driving the creation of Google's developer product group. In June 2010, Facebook appointed Bright Taylor as CTO, and in November 2021, Wright Taylor became chairman of Twitter.

As chairman of the board, Brett Taylor will have the daunting task of bridging differences and guiding major decisions during the transition, according to people familiar with the matter, having previously had some experience in this area from his tenure as Twitter's former board chairman.

In view of the fact that the plot of the OpenAI series is still reversing, there is no guarantee that this will be the final chapter. People familiar with the matter also said that the biggest crux of this peace talks is whether to accept Ultraman as a member of the board of directors, and Ultraman finally accepted, at least initially, he will not join the board of directors, but in the end, he still expects to become a member of the board of directors of OpenAI.

(Science and Technology Innovation Board Daily reporter Zhang Yangyang)