Brockman is not expected to return to the company until 2025.
AI startup OpenAI abandoned three top managers: President Greg Brockman, product manager Peter Deng, and co-founder John Schulman. Brockman went on an extended leave, and Deng and Schulman decided to quit.
As Brockman himself explains, he has never taken a vacation in his 9 years at OpenAI; Greg decided that the time had come. Brockman’s vacation will last until at least the end of 2024, and he believes that these months will allow him to “recuperate.”
Schulman left OpenAI to join Anthropic, a rival AI company that previously hired Jan Leike, who worked on AI safety issues at OpenAI.
As TechCrunch notes, Schulman played a key role in creating ChatGPT, a platform that allows users to interact with OpenAI’s neural networks without using an API.
The reasons for Peter Deng’s dismissal have not been disclosed. OpenAI only confirmed the manager’s departure and noted that he left the company some time ago.
