WASHINGTON, D.C.: OpenAI, the company that launched ChatGPT a year ago, said on Friday it had dismissed Chief Executive Officer (CEO) Sam Altman in a shock firing of a central figure in the AI revolution.

Altman became a tech world sensation with the release nearly a year ago of ChatGPT, an artificial intelligence (AI) chatbot with unprecedented capabilities, churning out human-level content like poems or artwork in just seconds.

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