A year ago this week, the five-day saga that saw OpenAI's chief Sam Altman's dramatic

ousting and then reinstatement. But since then, Albin has reshaped the company, the culture,

the employees, the mission for today's tech check. Kate Rooney's taking a closer look at the year

that did change OpenAI and its 39-year-old CEO. Hey, Kate. Hey, Carl, good morning. Yeah, what a year.

So Sam Altman emerged from that dramatic weekend.

Stronger than ever, he's now consolidated power within OpenAI, raised billions of dollars and really

become the face of the AI industry at this point. As one person described it to me, Altman,

has been cemented in the tech history books. He has shown this prolific ability to raise

money, which so far has given Open AI an edge. But he is divisive. Just ask Elon Musk, for example,

the fractures within Open AI's executive ranks in the past year reveal some tensions about safety

and the company's competitive position. People close to Altman tell me his superpower, as they put it,

is strategic thinking. They remember a year ago being hunkered down at Sam Altman's San Francisco

home, trying to unwind what was really a coup at that point where board members had fired him

amid all of that weekend chaos. I'm also told one of his top advisors was getting married that weekend.

Another had just had a newborn. So people at the company tell me the tension within OpenAI.

It really comes from its deep academic roots, which brushes up against the massive commercial potential here.

There's also a motto, I'm told, that they use internally. You can either disagree and leave or disagree

and commit and plenty of people have chosen the former. Their departures have spawned an entire

new generation of startups that could now compete with Open AI. Most recently, Chief Technology

Officer Mira Muradi, founding her own company, you have co-founder Ilya Sutskavar. Other founders

as well have decamped for rival Anthropic. Those who have stayed see Sam Altman as a visionary. They're betting their

careers on it. He has been effective in hiring season executives from big tech, as one person

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