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Sam Altman may have Elon Musk beat for the ability to pull off impressive technological achievements despite near-constant corporate drama. Wednesday’s news that OpenAI Chief Technology Officer Mira Murati is leaving comes after numerous other high-profile exits in recent months (or in the case of President Greg Brockman, a leave of absence.) You have to wonder—what is going on with this company?

Outwardly, OpenAI appears unaffected by the turmoil. It recently scored plaudits for its new reasoning model, as we detailed here and here, and is in the middle of a giant fundraising that could value it at $150 billion. Altman is everywhere—talking up his vision for artificial intelligence in an interview with Oprah a couple of weeks ago, on podcasts and in his own blog (not to mention pitching the White House on the need for new data centers). And yet the internal workings at OpenAI are something of a black box that seems to produce a lot of turnover. Investors in the upcoming round are surely asking for some clarity.