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OpenAI’s founding team started with 11 people, including Elon Musk. Now Musk is suing the company<\/a> for allegedly going against<\/a> its founding mission and several of OpenAI’s cofounders are stepping away from their roles.<\/p>\n Late Monday, OpenAI cofounder John Schulman announced on X<\/a> that he would be leaving to join rival AI firm Anthropic. He specified that his decision was personal, and not based on lack of support for AI safety research.<\/p>\n “My decision is a personal one,” he wrote, adding later that he will “still be rooting” for the OpenAI team, “even while working elsewhere.”<\/p>\n Related: <\/b>AI Is Standing Between You and Your Next Job \u2014 Here’s How to Get Your Application Into Human Hands.<\/b><\/a><\/p>\n Schulman’s departure overlaps with another OpenAI cofounder stepping back from the company. On Monday, OpenAI president Greg Brockman stated<\/a> that he would be taking an extended sabbatical for the rest of the year.<\/p>\n I’m taking a sabbatical through end of year. First time to relax since co-founding OpenAI 9 years ago. The mission is far from complete; we still have a safe AGI to build.<\/p>\n \u2014 Greg Brockman (@gdb) August 6, 2024<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n Brockman, CEO Sam Altman, and Wojciech Zaremba, a research and language team leader, are the only members of OpenAI’s 2015 founding team<\/a> who remain at the company.<\/p>\n The rest, including former OpenAI chief scientist Ilya Sutskever, have left<\/a>, with Sutskever founding his own Safe Superintelligence venture<\/a> in June.<\/p>\n Related: <\/b>OpenAI Resignations: How Do We Prevent AI From Going Rogue?<\/b><\/a><\/p>\n Peter Deng, OpenAI’s vice president of consumer product, also left OpenAI on Monday per The Information<\/a>, though he wasn’t on the founding team.<\/p>\n OpenAI has faced controversy recently, with Jan Leike, its former safety leader who departed for Anthropic in May, accusing the company<\/a> of prioritizing “shiny products” over safety. In the same month, Scarlett Johansson hired legal counsel after finding that ChatGPT’s voice<\/a> sounded “eerily similar” to hers.<\/p>\n<\/p><\/div>\n\n