OpenAI and the split relationship map

Family

Business

Social

Conflict

Other

2015 to 2024

Click anyone to see who they know, or any line to read it

made with sociogram

People in OpenAI and the split

Elon Musk, Co-founder and early funder, 2015 to 2018

Ilya Sutskever, Co-founder, chief scientist, 2015 to 2024

Sam Altman, Co-founder, chief executive, from 2015

Greg Brockman, Co-founder, president and chairman, from 2015

Andrej Karpathy, Founding member, 2015 to 2024

John Schulman, Co-founder, left for Anthropic in 2024, 2015 to 2024

Wojciech Zaremba, Co-founder, from 2015

Helen Toner, Board member, Georgetown CSET, 2021 to 2023-11

Tasha McCauley, Board member, 2018 to 2023-11

Adam D'Angelo, Board member, chief executive of Quora, from 2018

Mira Murati, Chief technology officer, first interim chief executive, 2018 to 2024

Emmett Shear, Twitch co-founder, second interim chief executive, 2023-11

Satya Nadella, Chief executive of Microsoft, from 2019

Bret Taylor, Chair of the board that reinstated him, from 2023-11

Larry Summers, Joined the new board, from 2023-11

Jakub Pachocki, Research director, resigned in protest, from 2023-11

Aleksander Mądry, Resigned in protest, from 2023-11

Szymon Sidor, Resigned in protest, from 2023-11

Dario Amodei, Left in 2020, founded Anthropic, from 2016

Daniela Amodei, Co-founder and president of Anthropic, from 2021

Tom Brown, Anthropic co-founder, from 2021

Jared Kaplan, Anthropic co-founder, chief science officer, from 2021

Sam McCandlish, Anthropic co-founder, chief architect, from 2021

Chris Olah, Anthropic co-founder, interpretability, from 2021

Benjamin Mann, Anthropic co-founder, from 2021

Jack Clark, Anthropic co-founder, policy, from 2021

Relationships in OpenAI and the split

Sam Altman and Greg Brockman: co-founded OpenAI with (business, confirmed, from 2015) source

Sam Altman and Ilya Sutskever: co-founded OpenAI with (business, confirmed, from 2015) source

Sam Altman and Elon Musk: co-founded OpenAI with (business, confirmed, 2015 to 2018) source

Greg Brockman and Ilya Sutskever: co-founded OpenAI with (business, confirmed, from 2015) source

Sam Altman and John Schulman: co-founded OpenAI with (business, confirmed, 2015 to 2024) source

Sam Altman and Wojciech Zaremba: co-founded OpenAI with (business, confirmed, from 2015) source

Ilya Sutskever and Andrej Karpathy: founding research team together (business, confirmed, from 2015) source

Elon Musk -> Sam Altman: left the board, and later sued (conflict, confirmed, from 2018) source

Andrej Karpathy and Elon Musk: went to Tesla, then came back (business, confirmed, 2017 to 2023) source

Ilya Sutskever -> Sam Altman: voted to remove him on 17 November (conflict, confirmed, 2023-11) source

Helen Toner -> Sam Altman: voted to remove him on 17 November (conflict, confirmed, 2023-11) source

Tasha McCauley -> Sam Altman: voted to remove him on 17 November (conflict, confirmed, 2023-11) source

Adam D'Angelo -> Sam Altman: voted to remove him on 17 November (conflict, confirmed, 2023-11) source

Greg Brockman -> Sam Altman: resigned as chairman hours later (other, confirmed, 2023-11) source

Mira Murati -> Sam Altman: took over as interim chief executive (business, confirmed, 2023-11) source

Emmett Shear -> Mira Murati: replaced her as interim chief executive (business, confirmed, 2023-11) source

Satya Nadella -> Sam Altman: offered him a Microsoft research division (business, confirmed, 2023-11) source

Jakub Pachocki -> Sam Altman: resigned alongside him (other, confirmed, 2023-11) source

Aleksander Mądry -> Sam Altman: resigned alongside him (other, confirmed, 2023-11) source

Szymon Sidor -> Sam Altman: resigned alongside him (other, confirmed, 2023-11) source

Mira Murati and Greg Brockman: signed the letter with 745 of 770 staff (social, confirmed, 2023-11) source

Ilya Sutskever and Helen Toner: recanted and signed the letter too (conflict, confirmed, 2023-11) source

Emmett Shear -> Sam Altman: handed it back after five days (business, confirmed, 2023-11) source

Bret Taylor -> Sam Altman: chaired the board that brought him back (business, confirmed, from 2023-11) source

Bret Taylor and Larry Summers: joined the new board together (business, confirmed, from 2023-11) source

Bret Taylor and Adam D'Angelo: the only director who stayed on (business, confirmed, from 2023-11) source

Dario Amodei -> Sam Altman: left over the direction of the work (conflict, confirmed, 2020) source

Dario Amodei and Daniela Amodei: brother and sister (family, confirmed) source

Dario Amodei and Daniela Amodei: co-founded Anthropic with (business, confirmed, from 2021) source

Dario Amodei and Tom Brown: co-founded Anthropic with (business, confirmed, from 2021) source

Dario Amodei and Jared Kaplan: co-founded Anthropic with (business, confirmed, from 2021) source

Dario Amodei and Sam McCandlish: co-founded Anthropic with (business, confirmed, from 2021) source

Dario Amodei and Chris Olah: co-founded Anthropic with (business, confirmed, from 2021) source

Dario Amodei and Benjamin Mann: co-founded Anthropic with (business, confirmed, from 2021) source

Dario Amodei and Jack Clark: co-founded Anthropic with (business, confirmed, from 2021) source

Tom Brown -> Sam Altman: left with the same group (other, confirmed, 2021) source

Chris Olah -> Ilya Sutskever: left the research team (other, reported, 2021) source

John Schulman -> Dario Amodei: followed them across (business, confirmed, 2024) source

John Schulman -> Sam Altman: a co-founder walking out (other, confirmed, 2024) source

About this map

People in OpenAI and the split

Relationships in OpenAI and the split