Details emerge of surprise board coup that ousted CEO Sam Altman at OpenAI

“The board no longer has confidence in his ability to continue leading OpenAI.”

Altman said there had been “a brutal crunch” all year due to supply shortages of Nvidia’s $40,000-a-piece chips. He said his company had received H100s, and was expecting more soon, adding that “next year looks already like it’s going to be better.”

However, as other players such as Google, Microsoft, AMD and Intel prepare to release rival AI chips,... See more