When Sam Altman, Elon Musk, and other investors formed the startup behind ChatGPT as a US not-for-profit organization in 2015, Altman told Vanity Fair he had very little experience with nonprofits. "So I'm just not sure how it's going to go," he said. He couldn't have imagined the drama of this week, with four directors on OpenAI's nonprofit board unexpectedly firing him as CEO and removing the company's president as chairman of the board. But the bylaws Altman and his cofounders initially established and a restructuring in 2019 that opened the door to billions of dollars in investment from Microsoft gave a handful of people with no financial stake in the company the power to upend the project on a whim. An attempt to restore Altman as CEO and replace the board ran into difficulty Sunday over the role of existing directors in choosing their replacements, Bloomberg reported.

Newly ousted OpenAI CEO Sam Altman and former president Greg Brockman are meeting with executives at the company's San Francisco headquarters now as discussions about possibly reinstating their positions continue, The Information reports. Per The Information, interim CEO Mira Murati and others have been leading the push to get Altman reinstated as CEO, and invited the two to HQ on Sunday. Altman and Brockman showed up for talks this afternoon, sources told The Information. Around the time of the report's publication, Altman tweeted a photo of himself wearing a guest badge for entry into the building, writing, "first and last time i ever wear one of these (sic)" -- which could be interpreted several different ways, at this point. Sources told The Verge that Altman has set a 5PM PT deadline for board members to reach an agreement that could ultimately determine whether he walks away from OpenAI, or they do. After Altman was fired without warning on Friday, Brockman stepped down in solidarity, along with a slew of senior researchers.

Sam Altman is being lined up for a surprise return as the chief executive of the ChatGPT developer OpenAI amid pressure from investors to reverse his surprise ousting. Altman was fired by the company board on Friday, citing a failure to be "candid in his communications", in a move that shocked Silicon Valley. However, OpenAI's investors – who include Microsoft – are pushing for his reinstatement, according to reports. On Saturday, the Information, a tech news website, reported that OpenAI was "optimistic" it could bring back Altman. The report quoted a memo from the company's chief strategy officer, Jason Kwon, telling staff that an effort was under way to bring back Altman and other senior colleagues who had left. "We are still working towards a resolution and we remain optimistic," Kwon wrote, according to the Information.

The news on Friday that Sam Altman, the chief executive of OpenAI, had been abruptly sacked by the company's board came as a shock to the tech industry. "Mr Altman's departure," said the ponderous announcement, "follows a deliberative review process by the board, which concluded that he was not consistently candid in his communications with the board, hindering its ability to exercise its responsibilities. The board no longer has confidence in his ability to continue leading OpenAI." Given that, ever since ChatGPT took the world by storm last December, Altman has been the photogenic poster-boy for generative AI – the darling of the mainstream media and an honoured invitee to the corridors of western power – news of his sudden fall from grace launched a torrent of excited speculation in the tech commentariat. Nobody, it seems, actually knew anything, but there was a consensus that Something Was Up. No doubt we will get to the bottom of the mystery in due course, but for now a more productive line of inquiry might be into the corporate history of OpenAI.

Following his surprise firing on Friday, currently-former OpenAI CEO Sam Altman might not be as out of a job as we initially thought he was, according to new word from The Verge on Saturday. Reportedly, sources close to Altman say that the board itself, in a stunning reversal, have "agreed in principal" to resign while reinstating him to his former position. However, the board has since reportedly missed a 5pm PT deadline regarding the decision. Shortly after Altman's firing on Friday afternoon, several senior staffers including former Chairman and President Greg Brockman, Director of Research Jakub Pachocki, Head of Preparedness Aleksander Madry and Senior Researcher Szymon Sidor tendered their resignations in protest. Numerous additional OpenAI staffers were set to quit in solidarity at that meeting.

Two of the board members who voted Altman out worked for think tanks backed by Open Philanthropy, a tech billionaire-backed foundation that supports projects preventing AI from causing catastrophic risk to humanity: Helen Toner, the director of strategy and foundational research grants for Center for Security and Emerging Technology at Georgetown, and Tasha McCauley, whose LinkedIn profile says she began work as an adjunct senior management scientist at Rand Corporation earlier this year. Toner has previously spoken at conferences for a philanthropic movement closely tied to AI safety. McCauley is also involved in the work.

OpenAI investors are pressing the company's board to reverse its decision to fire Sam Altman as chief executive officer and remove him as a director, according to people with knowledge of the matter. Some of the investors including Thrive Global are also in talks with Microsoft, the largest shareholder of OpenAI, said the people, who asked not to be identified because the overtures are private. Altman is open to returning to the company, one of the people said. In one scenario under consideration, members of the current OpenAI board would step down as soon as this weekend, according to multiple with knowledge of the situation. However, the situation is still fluid and no decisions have been made, the people said.

For most of his life, Sam Altman has resembled an accelerating train. He founded a startup as a teenager, achieved middling success -- and then jumped to running Silicon Valley's premier startup accelerator. After that, Altman co-founded OpenAI, whose ChatGPT tool has whipped up a frenzy of excitement about generative AI. Now 38, Altman has become the face of an AI-fueled future, traveling around the world to explain to world leaders and everyone else how the technology he'd helped create would change everything about human existence. He was the most Silicon Valley person alive.

More recently, (Fu et al., 2023) natural language processing (NLP) tasks using creates a meta-model responsible for predicting the latest generative pretrained models such as the accuracy of the LLM model using the model's GPT (OpenAI, 2023; Ouyang et al., 2022), PaLM confidence scores as features. Methods from the (Chowdhery et al., 2022), and many others (Touvron computer vision (CV) domain to assess unlabeled et al., 2023; Bai et al., 2022; Penedo et al., data more generally have, for example, proposed 2023; Taori et al., 2023). This new generation of the average threshold confidence method that learns models opens up many new possibilities including a threshold over the model's confidence, predicting competitive performance in zero-shot and few-shot accuracy as the fraction of unlabeled examples settings for tasks that have typically been modeled exceeding that threshold (Garg et al., 2022), or iteratively using a supervised setting (OpenAI, 2023). More learn an ensemble of models to identify established language models (BERT (Devlin et al., misclassified data points and perform self-training 2019), RoBERTa (Liu et al., 2019), XLM-Roberta to improve the ensemble with the identified points (Conneau et al., 2020b), etc.) provide a strong balance (Chen et al., 2021). However, the metrics and hyperparameters of inference cost and task performance for in previous works are specifically for such systems. This broad class of large language classification tasks and cannot be easily extended models (LLMs) used for complex supervised NLP to more complex tasks.

OpenAI's investors are making efforts to bring back Sam Altman, the chief executive who was ousted Friday, said people familiar with the matter, the latest development in a fast-moving chain of events at the artificial-intelligence company behind ChatGPT. Altman is considering returning but has told investors that he wants a new board, the people said. He has also discussed starting a company that would bring on former OpenAI employees, and is deciding between the two options, the people said.