Former OpenAI researcher and whistleblower found dead at age 26

December 16, 2024

OpenAI logo with a metallic outline of a brain

(NBC News) – Balaji left OpenAI earlier this year and raised concerns publicly that the company had allegedly violated U.S. copyright law while developing its popular ChatGPT chatbot.

“The manner of death has been determined to be suicide,” David Serrano Sewell, executive director of San Francisco’s Office of the Chief Medical Examiner, told CNBC in an email on Friday. He said Balaji’s next of kin have been notified. (Read More)