Sam Altman was fired from OpenAI because the board of the company lost confidence in his ability to lead and accused him of being dishonest in his communications with them. The exact details of what Altman lied about are not clear, but some sources suggest it might be related to the development and deployment of ChatGPT, the popular AI chatbot created by OpenAI Microsoft shortly hired him after he was fired. Microsoft is a major investor in open ai and committed 1 billion to support the research and development of artificial general intelligence.
Microsoft has own AI ambitions and has hired Altman to full fill it.
