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Ilya Sutskever Sheds New Light on OpenAI’s Power Struggle in Musk-Altman Case

A high-stakes trial reveals new details about OpenAI’s power struggle, including former chief scientist Ilya Sutskever’s pivotal role in Altman’s firing in 2023.

The relationship between Sam Altman and Ilya Sutskever, an OpenAI co-founder and the company’s former chief scientist, has long been tumultuous. Once considered close collaborators, the pair split in 2023 when Sutskever orchestrated Altman’s brief ouster as CEO. He later reversed course and called for Altman’s reinstatement, a move he described as a “Hail Mary” during testimony yesterday (May 11) in the ongoing trial of Elon Musk’s lawsuit against OpenAI.

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