Factbox-OpenAI key personnel changes

(Reuters) - Microsoft-backed OpenAI is planning to restructure its core business into a for-profit benefit corporation no longer controlled by its non-profit board, Reuters reported on Wednesday, even as another senior executive departed.

The ChatGPT-maker could be worth $150 billion after the restructuring, and CEO Sam Altman will also receive equity for the first time, the report added. The news comes as Chief Technology Officer Mira Murati, announced she would leave, following a series of other senior executives.

Here is a list of some notable departures and additions.

OpenAI had 11 founding members, including Altman and Elon Musk, who were the group's co-chairs. Only two of the original members, Altman and Wojciech Zaremba are still with the company.

Date Personnel Changes

Feb. 13 Andrej Karpathy, an artificial intelligence

researcher and one of the founding members of

OpenAI leaves the company. Karpathy in July

announced that he was starting an AI-integrated

education platform named Eureka Labs.

March 8 CEO Sam Altman returns to OpenAI's board along

with three new directors: Sue Desmond-Hellmann,

a former CEO of the Bill and Melinda Gates

Foundation, Nicole Seligman, a former president

of Sony (NYSE:SONY ) Entertainment, and Fidji Simo, CEO of

Instacart (NASDAQ:CART ).

Altman was fired from his role in November,

with OpeanAI's board blaming his lack of candor

and its need to defend OpenAI's mission to

develop AI that benefits humanity, but swiftly

returned as CEO.

May 14 OpenAI co-founder and chief scientist Ilya

Sutskever, who was on its board and helped

orchestrate Altman's firing, exits the startup.

Safe Superintelligence (SSI), newly co-founded

by Sutskever, raised $1 billion in cash to help

develop safe artificial intelligence systems in

September.

June 10 OpenAI hires Sarah Friar, the former CEO of

social media firm Nextdoor, as its first chief

financial officer. Also appointed Kevin Weil,

who has previously worked at Twitter, Facebook (NASDAQ:META )

and Instagram, as chief product officer.

Aug. 5 John Schulman, one of the co-founders of

OpenAI, departs the ChatGPT maker for rival

Anthropic, while the company's president and

co-founder Greg Brockman also took a sabbatical

through the end of the year.

Aug. 8 Appoints Zico Kolter, professor and

director of the machine learning department at

Carnegie Mellon University, to its board.

Kolter, whose work predominantly focuses on AI

safety, will also join OpenAI board's safety

and security committee.

Sept. 25 Mira Murati, OpenAI's Chief Technology Officer

leaves the firm after six-and-a-half years. She



had served as CEO briefly when Altman was

sacked by the company's board.

Source: Investing.com