Microsoft Is Discussing Governance Changes It Wants From OpenAI
- Company may aim to negotiate bigger, more experienced board
- Software maker may want more notice, consent to major changes
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Microsoft Corp. is discussing a list of governance changes it plans to request from OpenAI’s board in order to improve the board itself and prevent the software giant, the artificial intelligence startup’s biggest investor, from being caught flat-footed by major strategic moves.
OpenAI fired Chief Executive Officer Sam Altman on Friday, and since then investors have been agitating for his return. Microsoft, which offered to hire Altman, has said it is amenable to him returning to the ChatGPT maker as long as certain criteria are met. The software maker wants to sort out what it sees as the governance issues that led the existing OpenAI board to fire Altman.