OpenAI said on Wednesday that co-founder Sam Altman will return to his role as CEO.

The ChatGPT-maker also agreed to partially restructure its board, the company announced on X, formerly Twitter.

Former Salesforce co-CEO Bret Taylor, ex-US treasury secretary Larry Summers, and Quora CEO and current director Adam D'Angelo will join the board.

Altman was reinstated after being dismissed by the OpenAI board just days ago.

"I'm looking forward to returning to OpenAI," Altman wrote in a post on X.

Microsoft supports Altman

On Monday, ex-Twitch boss Emmett Shear was announced as the interim CEO by OpenAI in what has been a turbulent week at the artificial intelligence firm.

"With the new board and with Satya's support, i'm looking forward to returning to OpenAI, and building on our strong partnership with (Microsoft)," Altman wrote on X, formerly known as Twitter, referring to the support he received from Microsoft chief Satya Nadella.

Earlier, Microsoft had announced hiring Altman to run a new artificial intelligence research team soon after he was sacked by the artificial intelligence company. The tech giant is the biggest investor in OpenAI.

This story was originally published on DW.

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