As Altman confirmed his departure, it is reported that dozens of OpenAI employees have announced their resignation.

CTOnews.com, Nov. 20 (Xinhua)-- after OpenAI's former CEO Sam Altman confirmed he would not return to the company, a person familiar with the matter said dozens of employees tendered their resignations on Sunday night local time, according to The Information.

According to the report, dozens of employees have announced their departure this time, which will hinder the company's follow-up business and may also change the direction of AI development. At the same time, it will embolden competitors, including Google, which have been looking to hire OpenAI employees for the past 48 hours.

Some OpenAI employees have said they would be interested in joining Altman if he set up a new AI company.

CTOnews.com Note: just now, Microsoft CEO Nadella announced that Altman and Brockmann will join Microsoft.

According to reports from The Information and Forbes Beijing time today, OpenAI's board of directors has selected Emmett Shear, former CEO of Twitch, as interim CEO. Ilya Sutskever, co-founder and board member of OpenAI, told employees that despite the company's executives' efforts to get Altman back as chief executive of OpenAI, it was unsuccessful.

Emmett Shear is the co-founder of video streaming site Twitch.