OpenAI engineers are making as much as $800,000 and were key in Altman's return to the AI startup.

One week after he was fired, Altman was restored as CEO of the leading artificial intelligence technology company as a result of a staff revolt, combined with the intervention of Microsoft Corporation and other powerful sections of the ruling class.

Following Sam Altman's rollercoaster of a return as OpenAI's CEO, the company announced that it will now include Microsoft as a non-voting observer on its board. The question remains as to why the firm's largest investor wasn't on its board in the first place,

One senior OpenAI staffer told Semafor that while employees were "happy" Altman was back they were "still in the dark about a lot of things."

And we’re making such great progress on the mission that I care so much about, the mission of safe and beneficial AGI.” After an attempted boardroom coup that lasted five days, Altman officially returned as CEO of OpenAI on Wednesday.

Sam Altman, the briefly fired and quickly rehired CEO of OpenAI, has a hot take about his short stint away from the company. Speaking to The Verge's Alex Heath, Altman said he was happy to be back — and that the firing,

Sam Altman, co-founder of OpenAI, recently resumed his role as the CEO of the AI startup after a recent tumultuous episode that involved his initial firing and subsequent rehiring. But, one question that still a lot of people have in mind is why all this happened in the first place.