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Fortune
David Meyer

OpenAI implosion provides high drama—and for once, Elon Musk is on the sidelines

Elon Musk and Sam Altman, pictured together at the Vanity Fair New Establishment Summit in 2015. (Credit: Michael Kovac—Getty Images for Vanity Fair)

Well, that was quite the weekend.

In case you’ve managed to avoid the news for the last few days, OpenAI cofounders Sam Altman and Greg Brockman now work for Microsoft and OpenAI is being (temporarily?) led by former Twitch CEO Emmett Shear following the blink-and-you-missed-it interim-CEO-ship of chief technology officer Mira Murati, who took the reins when cofounder Ilya Sutskever and the OpenAI board booted out Altman for being “not consistently candid” with them, only to push for Altman’s return, which didn’t happen.

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