Microsoft Ends Weekend of OpenAI Drama With Coup of Its Own
- Software giant hires Altman to help lead its own AI efforts
- Developments leave huge questions about future of OpenAI
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After three days of high drama at the world’s most closely watched startup, which many compared to a coup, Microsoft Corp. capped the weekend with one of its own: The software giant hired ousted OpenAI chief Sam Altman.
The moves reshape the world of artificial intelligence given that OpenAI is behind the hugely popular ChatGPT app that took generative AI into the mainstream, and Altman was its figurehead.