OpenAI resolved its five-day-long saga late Tuesday night when it reinstated Sam Altman as CEO and restructured its board. Now the board that had previously fired Altman without giving the public a clear reason looks very different upon the cofounder’s comeback.
Along with his return, Altman secured a more favorable board. Two new directors will join: Bret Taylor, former board chair of Twitter, who will lead the new board (Altman ally Greg Brockman was stripped of that role at the time Altman was ousted) and Larry Summers, the former Treasury Secretary and Harvard president and currently a vocal presence on all macroeconomic matters from his perch in the university’s economics department.
