Oncey said Late Wednesday that she hired Fidji Simo, CEO of Instacart to take a new role that operates the business and operating teams of the artificial intelligence company.
In the blog post Sam Altman, CEO of Openai, he said he would be in charge of the company leader. However, the appointment of Mrs. Simo, as CEO of applications, would free him to focus on other parts of the organization, including research, computing and security systems, he said.
“We have become a global product company serving hundreds of millions of users around the world and grow very fast,” Altman said in a blog post. He added that OpenIi also became an “infrastructure company” that delivered artificial intelligence instruments on a scale.
“Each of them is a massive effort that could be his own big company,” he wrote. “Bringing an exceptional leader is a key part of it well.”
Mrs. Simo, a member of the Openai Board, will supervise sale, marketing and finance. He will report to Mr. Altman.
Openai, who lit madness over AI with his chatgpt chatbot, grew rapidly and juggled more initiatives – sometimes unsuccessfully. San Francisco has constantly released new AI models and products, including systems that can “sense”. In March, she completed an agreement to raise funds of $ 40 billion led by the Japanese conglomerate SoftBank, which appreciated it at $ 300 billion and made it one of the most valuable private companies in the world.
However, Openi, who was established as a non -profit organization, tried to accept a new corporate structure. As commercial attraction of artificial intelligence has grown, the company tried to remove from a non -profit organization. This attracted critics such as Elon Musk, the founder of Openi, who sued society and accused her of profit from AI security. The General Prosecutors in California and Delaware also explored restructuring.
On Monday, Openi retreated in the plan and said that the non -profit organization would allow its grip of society.
(The New York Times sued Openai and his partner Microsoft, who accused them of violating copyrights related to intelligence content AI.
In his statement of the late Wednesday, Mrs. Simo said that Openai “has the potential to accelerate the human potential at a pace he has never seen before, and I am deeply determined to form these applications towards public well -being.”
She added the instacart memorandum that she had “passion for AI and especially for the potential that she had to cure disease” “and that” the ability to lead such an important part of our collective future was a difficult opportunity to hand over. “
Mrs. Simo will stay on Instacart in the next few months because the company appoints a successor, a role that she said to be filled with a member of the Instacart Management Team. He will also remain on the Board of Directors of the Company as its chairman.
“Today’s announcement is not a reflection of any changes in our business or operations,” Instacart said in a statement.
