OpenAI Leadership Shakeup Raises Questions About Future of Pioneering AI Lab
• OpenAI CEO Sam Altman abruptly fired by the board on Friday night for unspecified reasons, shocking the tech industry and triggering resignations of top executives
• With Altman and other leaders potentially leaving for Microsoft, OpenAI may cease to exist, opening the red-hot generative AI market for rivals
• Microsoft seemed poised to benefit but is now absorbing responsibility and risk, exposing its high-risk OpenAI partnership
• AI talent becoming central in fallout as companies poach from OpenAI and Microsoft rushes to retain employees
• Upended overnight, generative AI landscape now wide open amid chaos with competitors seizing opportunities