Sam Altman slams former OpenAI board member who fired him

OpenAI CEO Sam Altman has delivered a scathing critique of his former board members who abruptly fired him in late November. “I feel like the people who really hurt me and the company are gone, and now I have to pick up their pieces,” he said in a wide-ranging interview. Just over a year ago, OpenAI’s old board fired Altman for “not always being forthcoming” in his communications with board members. According to Altman, the board quickly reversed course under pressure when he agreed to return only if the entire board resigned. Altman was caught off guard by the brief appointment of Twitch co-founder Emmett Shear as OpenAI’s CEO. “I was like, ‘OK, now I’m really done,’ because that was a real deception,” he said. Other interesting tidbits about OpenAI’s past and future were revealed in the interview, such as the fact that the company considered charging $42 per month for ChatGPT and that OpenAI intends to reveal more about its chip plans this year.