• Source:Reuters
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In an X post on Tuesday, Greg Brockman, a co-founder of OpenAI, said that he has rejoined the artificial intelligence startup three months after taking a leave of absence from his position as president. Brockman's return was confirmed by an OpenAI representative. According to Bloomberg News, which broke the story first, Brockman has been collaborating with CEO Sam Altman to design a new position that would allow him to concentrate on important technological issues.

"The longest vacation of my life is complete, going back to work on @OpenAI," he wrote on X.

His return to OpenAI follows a string of departures at the Microsoft-backed business, including co-founder Ilya Sutskever, John Schulman, and former Chief Technology Officer Mira Murati. Since then, Sutskever and Murati have established their own AI companies.

After a short, turbulent period following his dismissal by the company's board, which provided little justification for his termination, Altman also took over as CEO of OpenAI again in November 2023.

Meanwhile, according to two sources familiar with the matter, Sam Altman-led OpenAI is in preliminary talks with the California Attorney General's Office about changing its corporate structure in order to become a for-profit firm.

The AI pioneer, which was established in 2015 as a non-profit AI research facility, would undergo a significant change in governance structure if it were to become a for-profit business. Nonetheless, the action would increase the company's appeal to investors.

In September, Reuters first revealed that OpenAI, a company sponsored by Microsoft, was developing a plan to reorganise its main operations into a for-profit benefit corporation that would no longer be subject to the non-profit board's oversight.