Sam Altman will reportedly not be returning as chief executive of ChatGPT developer OpenAI after talks to reinstate him failed. The non-profit board of the San Francisco-based company has instead installed Emmett Shear, co-founder of video streaming site Twitch, as OpenAI's third CEO in three days, according to multiple reports. Altman was fired on Friday after being accused of not being "consistently candid in communications" with the board in a move that sent shockwaves through Silicon Valley. OpenAI's investors, led by Microsoft, then led an attempt to reinstate Altman and talks over an about-turn took place at the weekend – with Altman tweeting a picture of himself wearing a guest pass outside OpenAI's offices. However, the talks failed and OpenAI's board has appointed Shear as interim CEO, replacing Altman's short-lived temporary successor Mira Murati.

Sam Altman, the ousted CEO of ChatGPT creator OpenAI, will not return to the company he co-founded despite executives' efforts to bring him back, tech news site The Information has reported. Ilya Sutskever, OpenAI co-founder and board director, told staff on Sunday night that Altman would not be coming back after a weekend of negotiations with the board of directors, company leaders and investors, The Information reported on Sunday. Emmett Shear, co-founder of video streaming site Twitch, will take over as interim CEO, The Information said. OpenAI did not immediately respond to a request for comment from Al Jazeera. Altman, who became the public face of artificial intelligence with the releases of ChatGPT and GPT-4, was abruptly fired on Friday after the company's board determined he was "not consistently candid in his communications".

Talks over reinstating co-founder and former CEO Sam Altman at OpenAI have apparently broken down. According to The Information and Bloomberg, the board has now hired Altman's fellow Twitch co-founder Emmett Shear as OpenAI's new interim CEO. This appointment was apparently announced internally by co-founder and board director Ilya Sutskever. Altman was originally fired from OpenAI over "a breakdown in communication between Sam and the board," according to an oddly blunt internal staff memo published by Axios earlier. The news was subsequently followed by resignations from several key members, including co-founder Greg Brockman -- who was ousted as the chairman of the board -- along with a few senior researchers.

It took Steve Jobs 12 years to return as CEO after leaving the company he cofounded, and it looked like ousted OpenAI CEO Sam Altman might do it in three days. But late Sunday Emmett Shear, who formerly led Amazon's streaming platform Twitch, was appointed interim CEO at the AI company, according to multiple outlets. The Information first reported Shear's appointment. Shear and OpenAI did not immediately respond to requests for comment. Shear's arrival follows a dramatic and chaotic weekend at the world's most prominent artificial intelligence company, which develops the ChatGPT chatbot.

The latest development came after a chaotic weekend, where OpenAI investors and employees, blindsided by the board's move to fire Altman on Friday, mounted a campaign to get him reinstated. In its vague statement explaining the rationale for his ouster, OpenAI had said Altman wasn't always "candid" in his communications with them. The news reverberated through Silicon Valley and the halls of government, where Altman had become a major influencer of policy and regulation on AI.

Sam Altman will not return as the CEO of OpenAI and ex-Twitch boss Emmett Shear will become the new interim CEO, The Information reported on Sunday, citing board director Ilya Sutskever's statement to the company's staff. Shear co-founded Twitch and had stepped down from the Amazon-owned live video streaming platform earlier this year. OpenAI did not immediately respond to a request for comment.

Microsoft on Monday announced it has hired ousted OpenAI CEO and co-founder Sam Altman to head a new advanced AI research team after OpenAI's board decided against reinstating Altman following negotiations over the weekend. The appointment caps off a chaotic weekend for the tech world, which kicked off Friday after OpenAI's board of directors suddenly fired Altman, a high-profile figure and wunderkind of the artificial intelligence boom. It appeared there was a chance Altman could return to OpenAI but the board instead decided to appoint its second interim CEO, seemingly ending Altman's hopes of returning to the helm after his shocking ouster. Microsoft Chairman and CEO Satya Nadella said Monday the tech giant -- who is a lead investor in OpenAI -- is also bringing in OpenAI co-founder Greg Brockman, who resigned as president of the company in protest over the firing of Altman. "We're extremely excited to share the news that Sam Altman and Greg Brockman, together with colleagues, will be joining Microsoft to lead a new advanced AI research team," Nadella wrote in a statement posted on X, the platform formerly known as Twitter.

Efforts by a group of OpenAI executives and investors to reinstate Sam Altman to his role as chief executive officer reached an impasse over the makeup and role of the board, according to people familiar with the negotiations. Resolution could come quickly, though talks are fluid and ongoing. Altman, who was fired Friday, is open to returning but wants to see governance changes, including the removal of existing board members, said the people, who asked not to be identified because the negotiations are private. He's also seeking a statement absolving him of wrongdoing, they said. After facing intense outrage over the ouster, the board initially agreed in principle to step down, but have so far refused to officially do so.

To truly understand the events of this past weekend--the shocking, sudden ousting of OpenAI's CEO, Sam Altman, arguably the avatar of the generative-AI revolution, followed by reports that the company was in talks to bring him back, and then yet another shocking revelation that he would start a new AI team at Microsoft instead--one must understand that OpenAI is not a technology company. It was founded in 2015 as a nonprofit dedicated to the creation of artificial general intelligence, or AGI, that should benefit "humanity as a whole." In this conception, OpenAI would operate more like a research facility or a think tank. The company's charter bluntly states that OpenAI's "primary fiduciary duty is to humanity," not to investors or even employees. In 2019, OpenAI launched a subsidiary with a "capped profit" model that could raise money, attract top talent, and inevitably build commercial products.

Healthy companies led by competent, commercially successful and globally beloved founders generally don't tend to fire them. And, as Sam Altman walked on stage in San Francisco on Nov. 6, all those things could have described his role at OpenAI. The co-founder and chief executive officer had kicked off a global race for artificial intelligence supremacy, helped OpenAI surpass much larger competitors, and was, by this point, regularly compared to Bill Gates and Steve Jobs. Eleven days later he would be fired -- kicking off a chaotic weekend during which executives and investors loyal to Altman were agitating for his return. The board ignored them, and hired Emmett Shear, the former Twitch CEO, instead.