OpenAI Co-Founder and Chief Scientist Ilya Sutskever Announces Departure, Jakub Pachocki to Replace Him

May 14, 2024, 11:19 PM

Ilya Sutskever, the co-founder and longtime chief scientist of OpenAI, has announced his departure from the company. Sutskever, who played a pivotal role in the development of GPT language models, expressed confidence in OpenAI's future and its mission to build safe and beneficial artificial general intelligence (AGI). He mentioned that he is excited about his next project, which he described as personally meaningful but did not provide further details. Sutskever's departure follows a contentious period at OpenAI, including the ousting and reinstatement of CEO Sam Altman. Jakub Pachocki will replace Sutskever as the new chief scientist at OpenAI.