Kris Holt's November 20, 2023 Engadget article reports that most of OpenAI's roughly 770 employees — reportedly more than 700 by afternoon — threatened to resign unless the board quit and reinstated Sam Altman and Greg Brockman, whom the board fired on November 17. The letter calls the board "incapable of overseeing OpenAI"; Microsoft had hired Altman and Brockman to lead a new AI research team, and Mira Murati and Ilya Sutskever were among those signing or backing staff.