Sam Altman has choice words for the OpenAI board members who fired him

OpenAI CEO Sam Altman has strong words for the former board members who abruptly fired him late last November.

“[A]ll those people that I feel, like, really f—ed me and f—ed the company were gone, and now I had to clean up their mess,” he told Bloomberg in a wide-ranging interview.

Just over a year ago, OpenAI’s old board removed Altman for not being “consistently candid” in his communications with board members. The way Altman tells it, the board quickly reversed course under pressure, at which point Altman agreed to return only if the entire board quit.

The brief appointment of Twitch co-founder Emmett Shear as OpenAI’s CEO took Altman by surprise. “[I] was like, ‘All right, now I’m f—ing really done,’ because that was real deception,” he told Bloomberg.

The interview reveals other interesting tidbits about OpenAI’s past and future, like that the company once considered charging $42 per month for ChatGPT and that OpenAI intends to reveal more about its chip plans this year.