Ilya Sutskever, OpenAI’s longtime chief scientist and one of its co-founders, has left the company.
OpenAI CEO Sam Altman announced the new in a post on X Tuesday evening.
— Ilya Sutskever (@ilyasut) May 14, 2024
“This is very sad to me; Ilya is easily one of the greatest minds of our generation, a guiding light of our field, and a dear friend,” Altman wrote. “OpenAI would not be what it is without him. Although he has something personally meaningful he is going to go work on, I am forever grateful for what he did here and committed to finishing the mission we started together.”
Replacing Sutskever is Jakub Pachocki, director of research at OpenAI. Pachocki joined in 2017 as a research lead on OpenAI’s Dota team — the team that built an AI system that could defeat human players of Valve’s Dota 2 strategy game. He then became research lead at OpenAI’s reasoning team before a promotion to principal of research.
