Ilya Sutskever, OpenAIs co-founder and chief scientist, announced he was leaving the company on Tuesday.

After almost a decade, I have made the decision to leave OpenAI.

Ilya and OpenAI are going to part ways.

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Sutskever notes an undisclosed project that is very meaningful to him moving forward.

Its unclear at this time what that project is.

For the last six months, Sutskevers status has been unclear at OpenAI.

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Sutskever was the only member of OpenAI left in limbo at the timeneither fired nor rehired.

Since then, Altman has refused to answer questions about Sutskevers status at the company in multiple interviews.

We barely heard from Sutskever himself during this time period.

OpenAI CEO Sam Altman wearing sunglasses and holding up the peace sign while driving a golf cart.

Earlier this year, founding OpenAI memberAndrej Karpathy left the company.

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