Sources say Altman is still willing to return to OpenAI as CEO, provided the board steps down.

CTOnews.com, November 21 (Xinhua)-- after being fired by OpenAI, Sam Altman (Sam Altman) unexpectedly joined Microsoft yesterday, but this is not certain. Several sources told The Verge that he and co-founder Greg Brockman would still be willing to return to OpenAI if the rest of his board members were fired.

At present, almost all OpenAI employees are threatened with mass departures-including Ilya Sutskever, the board member and chief scientist who led the recall, calling for the board to resign collectively, meaning the board is under more pressure than ever before. "We will all work together in some way," Altman said in a post on X, meaning the battle continues.

According to reports, several sources with direct knowledge of the situation said that Altman, former president Brockman and the company's investors are still trying to find a decent way for the board to step down. Sources described Microsoft's recruitment announcement as a "holding model" and the company needed to resolve the crisis before the stock market opened on Monday.

CTOnews.com noted that Microsoft CEO Satya Nadella (Satya Nadella) said in CNBC and Bloomberg interviews that "it is up to the board, management and employees of OpenAI to choose whether Altman and OpenAI employees will join Microsoft." Microsoft "clearly chooses to work with OpenAI, which obviously depends on whether OpenAI people stay at Microsoft or come to Microsoft, so I am open to both options," he added.