OpenAI co-founder Greg Brockman has returned to the artificial intelligence startup three months after taking a leave from his role as president, he said in a post on X on Tuesday.
An OpenAI spokesperson confirmed Brockman’s return.
Brockman has been working with CEO Sam Altman on creating a new role for him to focus on significant technical challenges, Bloomberg News said, which first reported on the development.
OpenAI co-founder Greg Brockman has returned three months after leaving his role as president. Getty Images for SXSWHe posted on X, “longest vacation of my life complete. back to building @OpenAI.”
His return to OpenAI comes after a series of departures at the Microsoft-backed company, including its former Chief Technology Officer Mira Murati, co-founder John Schulman and co-founder Ilya Sutskever. Sutskever and Murati have now founded their own AI startups.
Brockman has been working with CEO Sam Altman (right) on creating a new role for him to focus on significant technical challenges, Bloomberg reported. Above, Brockman and Altman in 2023. ZUMAPRESS.comAltman also returned to the helm of OpenAI in November 2023, after a brief, tumultuous period following his ouster by the company’s board, which had given scant explanation for firing him.
