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However, the startup haslost its safety and super alignment teamover the past few months.

As it happens, the OpenAI is now more disintegrated than ever.

Satya Nadella and Sam Altman at OpenAI Dev Day

Sam Altman on stage with Satya Nadella.

Im taking a sabbatical through end of year.

First time to relax since co-founding OpenAI 9 years ago.

He indicated the move wasn’t triggered by a “lack of support for alignment research at OpenAI.”

Satya Nadella with Sam Altman at a conference

The researcher says “Company leaders have been very committed to investing in this area.”

Former OpenAI Chief Scientist Ilya Sutskever left the company to focus on a “personally meaningful” project.

Sutskever laterlaunched an OpenAI rival firmfocused on ‘building safe superintelligence.’

Marc Benioff, chief executive officer of Salesforce Inc., speaks during a keynote at the 2024 Dreamforce conference in San Francisco, California, US, on Tuesday, Sept. 17, 2024.

Is the pressure catching up to key OpenAI players?

OpenAI has been under fire for the past few months.

From claims of prioritizing shiny products like AGI while safety processes took a back seat toprematurely shipping GPT-4o.

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Musk had fileda similar suit against the parties, butabruptly withdrew it without prejudice.

Musk claims OpenAI leveraged a “fake humanitarian mission” to get investors to fund its advances.

Open AI CEO Sam Altman speaks during a talk session with SoftBank Group CEO Masayoshi Son at an event titled "Transforming Business through AI" in Tokyo, Japan, on February 03, 2025.

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