An excerpt from the upcoming book “The Optimist: Sam Altman, Openai, and the race to invent the future” Offers new details About why Openai’s board of directors fired the CEO of the CEO in 2023.

The book was written by the reporter of Wall Street Journal, and claims that the management members of the Non -profit organization became increasingly concerned after learning about issues such as an Open Start Fund that was actually owned by Altman.

At the same time, co-founder Ilya Cutskever and CTO Mira Murati gather evidence of what they saw as the toxic and dishonest behavior of Altman, complete with screenshots of Murati’s slack Channel. For example, Altman claimed that the company’s legal department said that GPT-4 Turbo should not be revised by the joint security council, but that the company’s top lawyer denied it.

After Sutskever gave this evidence to management members, they moved to Oust Altman and appointed Murati as interim CEO. But it returned quickly, with Openai employees (including Cutskever and Murati) signing a letter that claimed the return of Altman – which he soon did, with Sutskever and Murati to start their own startups.