In BriefPosted:4:06 PM PST January 5, 2025Sam Altman has choice words for the OpenAI board members who fired himOpenAI CEO Sam Altman has strong words for the former board members who abruptly fired him late last November. [A]ll those people that I feel, like, really fed me and fed the company were gone, and now I had to clean up their mess, he told Bloomberg in a wide-ranging interview.Just over a year ago, OpenAIs old board removed Altman for not being consistently candid in his communications with board members. The way Altman tells it, the board quickly reversed course under pressure, at which point Altman agreed to return only if the entire board quit.The brief appointment of Twitch co-founder Emmett Shear as OpenAIs CEO took Altman by surprise. [I] was like, All right, now Im fing really done, because that wasrealdeception, he told Bloomberg. The interview reveals other interesting tidbits about OpenAIs past and future, like that the company once considered charging $42 per month for ChatGPT and that OpenAI intends to reveal more about its chip plans this year. Topics