- Ilya Sutskever’s future is unsure at OpenAI after serving to to oust Sam Altman.
- Elon Musk has prompt that Sutskever might come work with him once more.
- Musk and Altman poached Sutskever from Google in 2015 to cofound OpenAI.
OpenAI chief scientist and cofounder Ilya Sutskever faces an unsure future on the firm after collaborating in — and later regretting — the board’s ousting of CEO Sam Altman in November.
Insiders instructed Enterprise Insider on Saturday that Sutskever is in a state of limbo on the firm, as OpenAI’s management has but to deal with his future. Sutskever is now not a member of OpenAI’s board.
Now, one other former OpenAI board member could be providing Sutskever his subsequent job.
On December 9, one particular person wrote on X — previously Twitter — that Sutskever ought to work at Tesla. The put up obtained a response from Elon Musk, who can also be a former OpenAI board member.
“Or xAI,” replied Musk.
Musk launched his AI startup, xAI, in July. The corporate began rolling out Grok, its AI rival to ChatGPT, to paying X subscribers in November.
This would not mark the primary collaboration between Sutskever and Musk. In 2015, Musk and Altman satisfied Sutskever to go away Google with a $1.9 million wage and beginning bonus, and be part of them in cofounding OpenAI.
Musk and Altman had been the primary board members of the group. Musk left the OpenAI board in 2018 after OpenAI’s cofounders rejected his plan to take over the corporate, based on Semafor.
In an interview with CNBC in Could, Musk described Sutskever because the “linchpin” of OpenAI’s success.
After OpenAI’s board fired Altman, Musk defended Sutskever on X, writing, “Ilya has an excellent ethical compass and doesn’t search energy. He wouldn’t take such drastic motion except he felt it was completely obligatory.”
Sutskever didn’t instantly reply to a request for remark from BI despatched by means of his lawyer, outdoors common enterprise hours.
