近日,人工智能領(lǐng)域的巨頭OpenAI迎來了一系列重大人事變動和可能的結(jié)構(gòu)調(diào)整,引發(fā)業(yè)界廣泛關(guān)注。多位公司高層相繼宣布離職,同時(shí)公司進(jìn)行了大規(guī)模的領(lǐng)導(dǎo)層重組,這些變化可能標(biāo)志著OpenAI即將進(jìn)入一個新的發(fā)展階段。

根據(jù)OpenAI CEO Sam Altman的內(nèi)部通知,長期擔(dān)任首席技術(shù)官(CTO)的Mira Murati已決定離職。Mira在OpenAI工作了6.5年,對公司從一個鮮為人知的研究實(shí)驗(yàn)室發(fā)展為重要的AI公司做出了巨大貢獻(xiàn)。在她的離職聲明中,Mira回顧了在OpenAI的時(shí)光,特別提到了最近發(fā)布的語音到語音技術(shù)和OpenAI o1,認(rèn)為這些標(biāo)志著交互和智能的新時(shí)代已經(jīng)開啟。

除Mira外,另外兩位元老高層領(lǐng)導(dǎo)首席研究官供職8年的McGrew Bob和研究副總裁Barret Zoph也決定離開公司。Sam Altman強(qiáng)調(diào),這三人的離職決定是獨(dú)立且友好的,但由于時(shí)間巧合,公司決定一次性公布這些變動。

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更令人驚訝的是,據(jù)可靠消息源透露,OpenAI的總裁兼聯(lián)合創(chuàng)始人Greg Brockman正在進(jìn)行長期休假。另一位聯(lián)合創(chuàng)始人兼關(guān)鍵領(lǐng)導(dǎo)者John Schulman已經(jīng)加入了由前OpenAI研究人員創(chuàng)立的競爭對手Anthropic。此外,去年才加入OpenAI的產(chǎn)品負(fù)責(zé)人Peter Deng也已離職,他此前曾在Meta Platforms、Uber和Airtable領(lǐng)導(dǎo)產(chǎn)品開發(fā)。

公司的VP Research Post-Training負(fù)責(zé)人Barret Zoph同樣宣布離開。他在離職聲明中表示,這是一個基于個人職業(yè)發(fā)展考慮的決定,并對公司給予的機(jī)會表示感激。他特別提到了自己加入ChatGPT項(xiàng)目之初的經(jīng)歷,以及在Bob的領(lǐng)導(dǎo)下工作的愉快時(shí)光。

為應(yīng)對這些變動,OpenAI宣布了一系列人事調(diào)整:

• Mark Chen將成為新的研究高級副總裁,與首席科學(xué)家Jakub一起領(lǐng)導(dǎo)研究組織。



• Mark Chen之前是OpenAI的前沿研究主管，并且還是美國IOI隊(duì)的教練。OpenAI五年多的老員工。此前曾在微軟、Trading實(shí)習(xí)，在哈佛做訪問學(xué)者，在量化研究工作過5年，并且成為合伙人。

Jakub Pachocki，卡內(nèi)基梅隆大學(xué)理論計(jì)算機(jī)科學(xué)博士學(xué)位，本科畢業(yè)于波蘭華沙大學(xué)，并在哈佛大學(xué)進(jìn)行了為期一年的博士后研究。2017年加入OpenAI，也是他第一份工作。他曾先后擔(dān)任Dota組、推理組以及深度學(xué)習(xí)科學(xué)團(tuán)隊(duì)的研究負(fù)責(zé)人，研究總監(jiān)。領(lǐng)導(dǎo)開發(fā)了GPT-4和OpenAI Five，此外他還參與了大規(guī)模強(qiáng)化學(xué)習(xí)（RL）和深度學(xué)習(xí)優(yōu)化的基礎(chǔ)研究。

• Josh Achiam將擔(dān)任新設(shè)立的使命對齊主管,負(fù)責(zé)確保公司各部門和文化符合公司使命。

Josh Achiam曾是OpenAI安全團(tuán)隊(duì)的研究科學(xué)家，加州大學(xué)伯克利分校Pieter Abbeel的博士生。

• 首席產(chǎn)品官Kevin Weil和工程副總裁Srinivas Narayanan將繼續(xù)領(lǐng)導(dǎo)應(yīng)用團(tuán)隊(duì)。

               Kevin Weil 于今年 6 月加入 OpenAI ，曾任 Instagram 產(chǎn)品副總裁和 Twitter 產(chǎn)品高級副總裁。

Srinivas Narayanan于2023年加入，擔(dān)任工程副總裁，領(lǐng)導(dǎo)OpenAI工程工作，包括ChatGPT、開發(fā)者平臺以及相關(guān)基礎(chǔ)設(shè)施支持工作。曾在 Facebook 擔(dān)任工程副總裁。曾就讀于威斯康星大學(xué)麥迪遜分校。

• Matt Knight將正式擔(dān)任首席信息安全官。

Matt Knight于2020年加入OpenAI，領(lǐng)導(dǎo)安全、IT以及安全隱私方面研究及工程工作。2018年曾作為聯(lián)合創(chuàng)始人加入Agitator。

Sam Altman表示,這些領(lǐng)導(dǎo)層變動是公司快速發(fā)展過程中的自然現(xiàn)象,盡管這次變動相對突然。他計(jì)劃在未來將更多時(shí)間投入到公司的技術(shù)和產(chǎn)品方面。

與此同時(shí),據(jù)路透社獨(dú)家報(bào)道,OpenAI正在醞釀一項(xiàng)重大的結(jié)構(gòu)調(diào)整。報(bào)道稱,公司計(jì)劃將其核心業(yè)務(wù)重組為追求盈利的公益公司,這意味著非營利董事會將不再控制盈利部門。這一變動可能使公司對投資者更具吸引力,同時(shí)也可能影響公司未來管理AI風(fēng)險(xiǎn)的方式。

值得注意的是,此次重組后,Sam Altman可能首次獲得OpenAI的股權(quán)。據(jù)悉,重組后公司估值可能達(dá)到1500億美元,較2021年的140億美元估值大幅增長。

OpenAI發(fā)言人回應(yīng)稱:"我們?nèi)匀粚Ｗ⒂跇?gòu)建對所有人有益的AI,并正在與董事會合作,確保我們處于最佳位置以實(shí)現(xiàn)我們的使命。非營利組織仍是我們使命的核心,并將繼續(xù)存在。"

這些變動發(fā)生在OpenAI經(jīng)歷了去年11月的董事會風(fēng)波之后,當(dāng)時(shí)Sam Altman曾短暫離職后又重返公司。如今,公司似乎正在經(jīng)歷一次更大規(guī)模的人事震蕩和可能的結(jié)構(gòu)調(diào)整,這無疑將對公司未來發(fā)展產(chǎn)生深遠(yuǎn)影響。

作為ChatGPT的締造者,OpenAI在全球AI領(lǐng)域扮演著舉足輕重的角色。此次的高層變動和潛在的結(jié)構(gòu)調(diào)整,引發(fā)了業(yè)界對公司未來發(fā)展方向的廣泛討論。一方面,這些變化可能使OpenAI更像一家典型的科技創(chuàng)業(yè)公司,增強(qiáng)其商業(yè)競爭力;另一方面,也有人擔(dān)心這可能影響公司在AI安全和倫理方面的堅(jiān)持。

隨著事態(tài)的進(jìn)一步發(fā)展,我們將繼續(xù)關(guān)注OpenAI的動向,以及這些變革對整個AI行業(yè)可能帶來的影響。無論如何,OpenAI的這一系列變動都將成為AI行業(yè)發(fā)展史上的重要一頁。

以下是SamAltman回應(yīng)全文：

i just posted this note to openai:

Hi All–

Mira has been instrumental to OpenAI’s progress and growth the last 6.5 years; she has been a hugely significant factor in our development from an unknown research lab to an important company.

When Mira informed me this morning that she was leaving, I was saddened but of course support her decision. For the past year, she has been building out a strong bench of leaders that will continue our progress.

I also want to share that Bob and Barret have decided to depart OpenAI. Mira, Bob, and Barret made these decisions independently of each other and amicably, but the timing of Mira’s decision was such that it made sense to now do this all at once, so that we can work together for a smooth handover to the next generation of leadership.

I am extremely grateful to all of them for their contributions.

Being a leader at OpenAI is all-consuming. On one hand it’s a privilege to build AGI and be the fastest-growing company that gets to put our advanced research in the hands of hundreds of millions of people. On the other hand it’s relentless to lead a team through it—and they have gone above and beyond the call of duty for the company.

Mark is going to be our new SVP of Research and will now lead the research org in partnership with Jakub as Chief Scientist. This has been our long-term succession plan for Bob someday; although it’s happening sooner than we thought, I couldn’t be more excited that Mark is stepping into the role. Mark obviously has deep technical expertise, but he has also learned how to be a leader and manager in a very impressive way over the past few years.

Josh Achiam is going to take on a new role as Head of Mission Alignment, working across the company to ensure that we get all pieces (and culture) right to be in a place to succeed at the mission.

Kevin and Srinivas will continue to lead the Applied team.

Matt Knight will be our Chief Information Security Officer having already served in this capacity for a long time. This has been our plan for quite some time.

Mark, Jakub, Kevin, Srinivas, Matt, and Josh will report to me. I have over the past year or so spent most of my time on the non-technical parts of our organization; I am now looking forward to spending most of my time on the technical and product parts of the company.

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Leadership changes are a natural part of companies, especially companies that grow so quickly and are so demanding. I obviously won’t pretend it’s natural for this one to be so abrupt, but we are not a normal company, and I think the reasons Mira explained to me (there is never a good time, anything not abrupt would have leaked, and she wanted to do this while OpenAI was in an upswing) make sense. We can both talk about this more tomorrow during all-hands.

Thank you for all of your hard work and dedication.

Sam

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