OpenAI co-founder Ilya Sutskever leaves the AI company

Ilya Sutskever, co-founder and chief scientist of OpenAI, announced that he was leaving the influential AI company Tuesday after almost a decade.

A person familiar with the situation, who spoke on the condition of anonymity to discuss sensitive matters, said Sutskever had not been at the company for months.

Sutskever was one of the OpenAI board members who voted to remove co-founder Sam Altman as chief executive in November. Altman was reinstated days later, and Sutskever and the other directors who voted against Altman resigned from the board.