Sam Altman长文回应，CTO突然离职

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2024-09-27

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对于首席技术官Mira Murati的离职，Sam Altman也有点懵圈。毕竟前两天还畅谈很快会实现超级智能呢，Mira可是领导开发了ChatGPT、DALL·E、GPT-4、GPT-4o等一系列招牌产品的重要元老。

Mira的突然离开对于Altman来说相当于失去了一个“臂膀”，加上今年5月离开的首席科学家Ilya Sutskever，一年之内左膀右臂全没了~

Altman又一次发表了长文来纪念这位曾经一起创造过辉煌的小伙伴。

下面是「AIGC开放社区」按照原文整理翻译的内容。

Mira在过去6.5年中对OpenAI的进步和成长起到了关键作用；她是我们从一个不为人知的研究实验室发展成为一个重要公司的重要推动力。

今天早上，当Mira告诉我她要离开时，我感到非常难过，但我当然支持她的决定。在过去的一年里，她一直在培养一支强大的领导团队，他们将继续推动我们的进步。

我还想分享的是，Bob和Barret也决定离开OpenAI。Mira、Bob和Barret是独立且友好地做出这些决定的，但由于Mira的决定时机正好，我们决定现在一起进行，这样我们可以共同努力，为下一代领导层的顺利交接做好准备。

我对他们的付出表示衷心的感谢。

在OpenAI担任领导职位是一项非常耗费精力的工作。一方面，能够构建通用人工智能（AGI）并成为发展最快的公司，将我们的先进研究带给数亿人，这是一种荣幸。另一方面，领导一个团队经历这一切是无情的——他们为公司付出了超出职责的努力。

Mark将成为我们新的研究高级副总裁，并将与作为首席科学家的Jakub合作领导研究组织。这是我们长期以来为Bob准备的继任计划；虽然这比我们预期的要早，但我对Mark能够担任这个角色感到非常兴奋。Mark显然拥有深厚的技术专长，而且在过去几年里，他以令人印象深刻的方式学会了如何成为一名领导者和管理者。

Josh Achiam将担任新的使命对齐负责人，负责全公司的工作，确保我们正确地整合所有部分（和文化），以便成功完成我们的使命。

Kevin和Srinivas将继续领导应用团队。

Matt Knight将成为我们的首席信息安全官，他已经担任这一职位很长时间了。这是我们长期以来的计划。

Mark、Jakub、Kevin、Srinivas、Matt和Josh将向我汇报。在过去的一年左右，我大部分时间都在处理我们组织的非技术部分；现在我期待着将大部分时间花在公司的技术和产品部分。

领导层的变动是公司自然发展的一部分，尤其是对于增长如此迅速、要求如此高公司来说。我当然不会假装这种突然的变化是自然的，但我们不是一个普通的公司，我认为Mira向我解释的原因（永远不会有好时机，任何不突然的事情都会泄露，她希望在OpenAI处于上升期时这样做）是有道理的。我们明天可以在全员大会上进一步讨论这个问题。

感谢你们所有人的辛勤工作和奉献。

英文原版

Mira has been instrumental to OpenAI’s progress and growth the last 6.5 years; she has been a hugely significant factor in our development from an unknown research lab to an important company. When Mira informed me this morning that she was leaving, I was saddened but of course support her decision. For the past year, she has been building out a strong bench of leaders that will continue our progress. I also want to share that Bob and Barret have decided to depart OpenAI.

Mira, Bob, and Barret made these decisions independently of each other and amicably, but the timing of Mira’s decision was such that it made sense to now do this all at once, so that we can work together for a smooth handover to the next generation of leadership. I am extremely grateful to all of them for their contributions. Being a leader at OpenAI is all-consuming. On one hand it’s a privilege to build AGI and be the fastest-growing company that gets to put our advanced research in the hands of hundreds of millions of people.

On the other hand it’s relentless to lead a team through it—and they have gone above and beyond the call of duty for the company. Mark is going to be our new SVP of Research and will now lead the research org in partnership with Jakub as Chief Scientist. This has been our long-term succession plan for Bob someday;

although it’s happening sooner than we thought, I couldn’t be more excited that Mark is stepping into the role. Mark obviously has deep technical expertise, but he has also learned how to be a leader and manager in a very impressive way over the past few years. Josh Achiam is going to take on a new role as Head of Mission Alignment, working across the company to ensure that we get all pieces (and culture) right to be in a place to succeed at the mission. Kevin and Srinivas will continue to lead the Applied team.

Matt Knight will be our Chief Information Security Officer having already served in this capacity for a long time. This has been our plan for quite some time. Mark, Jakub, Kevin, Srinivas, Matt, and Josh will report to me. I have over the past year or so spent most of my time on the non-technical parts of our organization;

I am now looking forward to spending most of my time on the technical and product parts of the company. … Leadership changes are a natural part of companies, especially companies that grow so quickly and are so demanding. I obviously won’t pretend it’s natural for this one to be so abrupt, but we are not a normal company, and I think the reasons Mira explained to me (there is never a good time, anything not abrupt would have leaked, and she wanted to do this while OpenAI was in an upswing) make sense. We can both talk about this more tomorrow during all-hands. Thank you for all of your hard work and dedication。

希望Sam Altman以后少写点纪念小作文吧，就像去年他被罢免时，OpenAI的800多名员工喊出的口号那样“人没了，OpenAI就一无所有了。”

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