Sam Altman, CEO of OpenAI, speaks during The Wall Street Journal's WSJ Tech Live Conference in Laguna Beach, California on October 17, 2023.
OpenAI CEO Sam Altman was ousted and rehired in the span of a week in November.
  • Sam Altman says the corporate drama around his ouster was "a real moment of growing up" for OpenAI.
  • Altman was fired as OpenAI's CEO in November and rehired within less than a week.
  • OpenAI's board at the time said he wasn't "consistently candid in his communications" but no further explanation was given for his dismissal.

Sam Altman's ouster from OpenAI was "a real moment of growing up" for the company, he said in a new interview.