https://techcrunch.com/2023/11/20/openai-emmett-shear-ceo/ > Emmett Shear, the interim CEO of OpenAI, may be out of a job by the end of the hour, day or week given how fast and unexpectedly things are moving at the world’s hottest hot mess artificial intelligence company. But for now, he is the person at the helm after a dramatic three days in which Sam Altman was fired on Friday with CTO Mira Murati put in to replace him, much speculation abounded about Altman returning after all, only for Altman and Greg Brockman to officially jump to OpenAI investor and partner Microsoft, and Murati to — late Sunday — get replaced by Shear. > “Today I got a call inviting me to consider a once-in-a-lifetime opportunity: to become the interim CEO of @OpenAI,” he posted on X (the site formerly known as Twitter) in the wee hours of Monday morning.