“OpenAI was at catastrophic risk of falling apart” when Altman was fired, Murati says.

Satya Nadella met with the OpenAI board. And Murati told Microsoft’s Kevin Scott about Ilya Sutskever signing a petition to reinstate Altman. Murati also wanted Altman back. “The board had not followed a process that could be trusted and it wasn’t transparent with regard to firing Sam.”

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“OpenAI was at catastrophic risk of falling apart” when Altman was fired, Murati says.

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