San Francisco police entered the apartment of Suchir Balaji, a 26-year-old software developer, and found him dead from a gunshot wound to the head. Though authorities initially ruled his death a suicide,

A year before Elon Musk helped start OpenAI in San Francisco, philanthropist and Microsoft co-founder Paul Allen already had established his own nonprofit artificial intelligence research laboratory in Seattle.

Suchir Balaji, a former OpenAI employee, was found dead in his San Francisco apartment on Nov. 26; on Friday, the city’s medical examiner ruled his death

The San Francisco Medical Examiner says there was no foul play in an OpenAI whistleblower's death last November.

A year before Elon Musk helped start OpenAI in San Francisco, philanthropist and Microsoft co-founder Paul Allen already had established his own nonprofit artificial intelligence research laboratory in Seattle.

San Francisco’s medical examiner has ruled the death of former OpenAI researcher and whistleblower Suchir Balaji a suicide in new autopsy report.

In the fall, the company introduced technology called OpenAI o1, which was designed to reason through tasks involving math, coding and science. The new technology was part of a wider effort to build A.I. that can reason through complex tasks. Companies like Google, Meta and DeepSeek, a Chinese start-up, are developing similar technologies.

Balaji was born and raised in the San Francisco Bay Area and showed an early interest in computer programming. He ultimately attended the University of California, Berkeley and joined OpenAI out of college. Balaji worked at the startup for four years ...

The San Francisco Medical Examiner says there was no foul play in an OpenAI whistleblower's death last November.

San Francisco’s medical examiner has ruled the death of former OpenAI researcher and whistleblower Suchir Balaji a suicide in new autopsy report.

Suchir Balaji, a former OpenAI employee, was found dead in his San Francisco apartment on Nov. 26; on Friday, the city’s medical examiner ruled his death

Andrej Karpathy, an OpenAI co-founder and research scientist who has quit the A.I. powerhouse twice, has been making waves in the startup world since his last exit a year ago. Earlier this month, Karpathy participated in a $480 million round in Lambda,