It took Steve Jobs 12 years to return as CEO after leaving the company he cofounded, and it looked like ousted OpenAI CEO, Sam Altman, was perhaps going to do it in three days. But late Sunday, Emmett Shear, who formerly led Amazon’s streaming platform Twitch, was appointed interim CEO at the AI company.
Shear confirmed his appointment in a post on X in the early hours of Monday morning, calling it a “once-in-a-lifetime opportunity.”
Hours earlier, Microsoft CEO Satya Nadella had announced that Altman and his OpenAI cofounder Greg Brockman would be joining the tech giant to head a new AI research unit.
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