OpenAI's board dismissed CEO and cofounder Sam Altman in November 2023 for allegedly not being consistently candid, then named Mira Murati interim CEO. Ninety-five percent of staff signed a letter threatening to quit unless Altman returned, and Altman was reinstated after a brief internal crisis. Several cofounders later left OpenAI; Murati stepped down in 2024 and now leads Thinking Machine Lab, a well-funded AI startup expected to announce a product soon. Luca Guadagnino is directing a feature about the episode, with Andrew Garfield as Altman and Monica Barbaro as Murati, filming around San Francisco.
In November 2023, the board of ChatGPT-maker OpenAI fired its Chief Executive and cofounder, Sam Altman, after determining that he "was not consistently candid in his communications." The then-Chief Technology Officer, Mira Murati, was named interim CEO. Staff rebelled - 95% of the company signed a letter threatening to quit unless Altman was reinstated, and after a wild few days in the OpenAI offices (we imagine), Altman was back in the CEO role.
The film is being directed by Luca Guadagnino ("Call Me By Your Name," "After the Hunt"), and the cast is a who's who of awards show acting nominees: Andrew Garfield is playing Altman, Monica Barbaro plays Murati, and Ike Barinholtz is OpenAI cofounder and Altman nemesis, Elon Musk. Puck got a hold of the screenplay and compares it to the 2010 mega-hit "The Social Network," a fictionalized take on the origins of Facebook. (The Garfield casting is a coincidence, we also imagine.)
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