Ilya Sutskever Leaves OpenAI
After months of everyone wondering ‘where is Ilya’, there has finally been a revelation. Ilya Sutskever, the chief scientist and co-founder of OpenAI has decided to leave the company.
He posted on X saying that his decade long journey with OpenAI has been nothing short of miraculous and is confident that OpenAI is going to build AGI. He also revealed that he is working on a project that is very dear to him, for which he will reveal information soon.
Sam Altman also posted about the departure of Sutskever and said that he is the greatest minds of our generation. “OpenAI would not be what it is without him. Although he has something personally meaningful he is going to go work on, I am forever grateful for what he did here and committed to finishing the mission we started together,” Altman said.
Meanwhile, Altman also announced that Jakub Pachocki is going to replace Sutskever as the chief scientist at OpenAI. “He has run many of our most important projects, and I am very confident he will lead us to make rapid and safe progress towards our mission of ensuring that AGI benefits everyone,” he added.
Pachocki also posted on X saying that Sutskever introduced him to the world of deep learning and has been a great mentor to him.
Greg Brockman, co-founder of OpenAI, also shared on X that Sutskever played a key role in helping build OpenAI. “Ilya is an artist. His vision and gusto are infectious, and he helped me understand this field when I was just getting started. He is unafraid of thinking through the logical conclusion of his intuitions,” he said.
Speaking of Sutskever’s art, in an interview, Mira Murati revealed a painting by the former chief scientist that hangs on the wall of the company. The painting is of OpenAI’s logo created by Sutskever, which symbolises ‘AI That Loves Humanity’, which indirectly shows how much Sutskever loves the company, and the future of AGI.
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