OpenAI Co-Founder Greg Brockman Returns

(Reuters) – OpenAI co-founder Greg Brockman has returned to the artificial intelligence startup three months after taking a leave from his role as president, he said in a post on X on Tuesday.

An OpenAI spokesperson confirmed Brockman's return.

Brockman has been working with CEO Sam Altman on creating a new role for him to focus on significant technical challenges, Bloomberg News reported.

He posted on X, "longest vacation of my life complete. back to building @OpenAI."

His return comes after a series of departures at the Microsoft-backed company, including its former Chief Technology Officer Mira Murati, co-founder John Schulman, and co-founder Ilya Sutskever. Sutskever and Murati have founded their own AI startups.

Altman also returned to the helm of OpenAI in November 2023, after a brief tumultuous period following his ouster by the company's board, which had given scant explanation for firing him.