The founding team of OpenAI started with 11 people, including Elon Musk. Now Musk is suing the company allegedly going against its founding mission and some of OpenAI's co-founders are stepping down from their roles.

Late Monday, OpenAI co-founder John Schulman announced in X that he would be leaving to join rival AI firm Anthropic. He specified that his decision was personal, and not based on a lack of support for AI security research.

“My decision is a personal one,” he wrote, later adding that he “will still be rooting” for the OpenAI team, “even though he works elsewhere.”

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Schulman's departure coincides with another OpenAI co-founder stepping down from the company. On Monday, OpenAI president Greg Brockman DECLARING that he would take an extended leave of absence for the rest of the year.

I'm taking a break until the end of the year. First time to relax since co-founding OpenAI 9 years ago. The mission is far from over; we still have a safe AGI to build.

— Greg Brockman (@gdb) August 6, 2024

Brockman, CEO Sam Altman and Wojciech Zaremba, a research and language team leader, are the only members of OpenAI founding team 2015 who remain in the company.

The rest, including former OpenAI chief scientist Ilya Sutskever, have leftwith Sutskever establishing his own Safe enterprise of superintelligence in June.

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Peter Deng, OpenAI's vice president of consumer products, also left OpenAI on Monday informationalthough he was not on the founding team.

OpenAI has faced controversy recently, with Jan Leike, its former head of security leaving for Anthropic in May, accusing the company prioritizing “shiny products” over security. That same month, Scarlett Johansson hired legal counsel after finding out the voice of ChatGPT it looked “strangely similar” to hers.