Ilya Sutskever, the OpenAI co-founder and chief scientist who played a major role in an ultimately unsuccessful bid to push chief executive Sam Altman out of the business last year, is now on the way out of the company himself.
The news was confirmed Tuesday both by Sutskever and the ChatGPT maker, which announced his departure in a blog post. “Ilya and OpenAI are going to part ways,” Altman wrote in a message to the company, the post says. “This is very sad to me; Ilya is easily one of the greatest minds of our generation, a guiding light of our field, and a dear friend.”
“His brilliance and vision are well known; his warmth and compassion are less well known but no less important,” Altman’s message continued. “OpenAI would not be what it is without him.”
