Illya Sutskever said he’s leaving OpenAI for a “personally meaningful” project, and research director Jakub Pachocki is now taking over the role.
Ilya Sutskever, the OpenAI co-founder and chief scientist who helped briefly oust CEO Sam Altman last year, is leaving the artificial intelligence firm.
“After almost a decade, I have made the decision to leave OpenAI,” Sutskever wrote in a May 14 X post without explaining why. He added he was confident the firm would build an artificial general intelligence (AGI) that is “safe and beneficial.”
Altman posted on X that Sutskever and OpenAI would “part ways” and the former chief scientist “has something personally meaningful he is going to go work on.”
