The imbroglio did not last even a week. While Microsoft announced the hiring of the two former leaders of the start-up, number one in intelligence, OpenAI wasted no time in reinstating the two emblematic figures of US technologies. A victory for Microsoft, the company’s minority shareholder, which managed to keep Altman at the top of the OpenAI hierarchy.
In a message addressed to OpenAI’s board of directors, Satya Nadella, CEO of Microsoft, was very explicit about the situation when responding to questions from ‘New York Magazine’: “There is no OpenAI without the massive support of Microsoft. We appreciate your independence, but… we have all ownership rights,” before adding, “Everything we do in partnership with OpenAI, we can do ourselves.”
It is recalled that 700 of the start-up’s approximately 770 employees who had threatened to resign if Sam Altman did not resume leadership of the company, made famous around the world thanks to its generative artificial intelligence program, ChatGPT.