Chaos at OpenAI

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🗓️ 22 November 2023

⏱️ 27 minutes

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It’s been a wild few days at OpenAI, whose board fired CEO Sam Altman on Friday only to rehire him late Tuesday. Vox reporter Sigal Samuel explains what happened at the company behind ChatGPT — and what it tells us about the future of AI. This episode was produced by Avishay Artsy and Hady Mawajdeh, edited by Matt Collette, fact-checked by Laura Bullard and Isabel Angell, engineered by David Herman and Rob Byers, and hosted by Noel King. Transcript at vox.com/todayexplained Support Today, Explained by making a financial contribution to Vox! bit.ly/givepodcasts Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

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0:00.0	Breaking News overnight, a stunning new twist in the power struggle over the future of the company behind
0:06.9	Chat GPT.
0:07.9	Sam Altman, the co-founder and also leader that will now return to Open AI as CEO. We know that these negotiations
0:14.4	have been going on in the last 24 hours. The soap opera, I don't know if it's officially
0:18.7	over, but it's, I think we're to extra innings at this point.
0:22.8	Sam Altman's shocking ouster from his company on Friday
0:26.2	became a back-inster late yesterday.
0:28.7	Now, the man who some people feared had too much power
0:31.5	in the world of artificial intelligence has even more power
0:34.7	and the backing of a friendlier board.
0:36.7	Coming up on today explained, five days that shook the tech world.
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