Considered one of the researchers who played a very powerful role in making OpenAI one in every of the world’s best artificial intelligence (AI) firms has left the corporate. As well as, the leakage of Open AI core developers continues, with the search manager who led the event of ‘ChatGPT Search’ leaving the corporate.
The Information reported on the nineteenth (local time) that researcher Alex Radford told his colleagues that he was leaving the corporate to pursue independent research.
In response to sources, it is thought that researcher Radford will proceed to collaborate with OpenAI even after leaving the corporate.
Mark Chen, OpenAI’s senior vp of research, said in a press release: “Now we have great respect and gratitude for him and stay up for continuing to work with him on the project while conducting independent research.”
Researcher Radford joined OpenAI in 2016, and in February 2019, he became generally known as a legendary developer because the fundamental writer of the ‘GPT-2’ paper, which became the idea for ‘ChatGPT’. Afterwards, he participated in the event of the GPT series, the voice model ‘Whisper’, and the image model ‘Dali’.
It’s unclear why he, one in every of OpenAI’s top officials, left the corporate. It’s also unknown whether this is expounded to the incontrovertible fact that GPT-5 has recently encountered limitations in its scaling laws.
Then, the following day, on the twentieth, Sivakumar Venkataraman, head of Open AI search, announced his resignation. He’s a former Google executive and joined OpenAI last May to develop the ChatGPT search function.
Coincidentally, he left the corporate shortly after opening ChatGPT search to free users on the sixteenth. Nonetheless, OpenAI is recently attempting to expand its business into enterprise search.
It is just not known where Venkataraman will move to or how OpenAI will fill his void. It looks as if a sudden move.
As such, the outflow of Open AI personnel, which began with the departure of chief scientist Ilya Sutskever in May, continued until the top of the 12 months. Key individuals who have left the corporate to date include co-founder John Shulman, Chief Technology Officer (CTO) Mira Murati, Chief Research Officer Bob Grow, and safety team leader Jan Reiche.
Then again, newly hired people corresponding to Sarah Pryor, Chief Financial Officer (CFO) and Kevin Weil, OpenAI Chief Product Officer (CPO), have established themselves as key personnel, and key researchers who joined around 2018 have been promoted to leadership levels, resulting in generational change. A substitute was made.
Reporter Lim Da-jun ydj@aitimes.com
