Sam Altman continues to be making an attempt to return as OpenAI CEO

Sam Altman’s shock transfer to Microsoft after his shock firing at OpenAI isn’t a finished deal. He and co-founder Greg Brockman are nonetheless open to returning to OpenAI if the remaining board members who fired him step apart, a number of sources inform The Verge.

The promised mass exodus of nearly each OpenAI worker, together with board member and chief scientist Ilya Sutskever who led the transfer to depose Altman, means that there’s extra push to take away the board than ever, and solely two of three remaining board members must flip to make it occur. Altman simply posted on X that “we’re all going to work collectively a way or different,” which we’re instructed is supposed to point that the struggle continues.

Altman, former president Greg Brockman, and the corporate’s buyers are all looking for a sleek exit for the board, says one supply with direct information of the state of affairs, who characterised the Microsoft hiring announcement as a “holding sample.”

Microsoft declined to remark.