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OpenAI announces new members to board of directors

OpenAI Blog 8 March 2024, 08:00 ● Covered by 2 sources

OpenAI appointed three new board members: Dr. Sue Desmond-Hellmann, Nicole Seligman, and Fidji Simo, while CEO Sam Altman rejoined the board. Desmond-Hellmann previously led the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation, Seligman served as general counsel at Sony, and Simo is the CEO of Instacart. The expanded board changes OpenAI's governance structure following its transition toward a for-profit model.

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The open-weight AI model market hit an inflection point today as Alibaba and Kimi released trillion-parameter competitors that challenge the closed-model orthodoxy—just as Washington moved to restrict them. Alibaba's Qwen 3.8 Max (2.4 trillion parameters) and Kimi K3 (2.8T) are going open-weight, with K3 ranking first on Frontend Web App Arena and fourth on agentic benchmarks, signaling that scale and transparency can coexist. The timing matters: while U.S. policymakers weigh layered restrictions on Chinese open models, technical experts are pushing back hard, arguing that closed gardens actually hurt security and competition more than they help. The real fragmentation risk isn't technical—it's regulatory.

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