In an interview this week, Suchir Balaji’s mother and father expressed confusion and shock over his sudden passing, expressing doubt their son could have died by suicide, as determined by the county medical examiner. The family hired an expert to perform an independent autopsy, but has yet to release the report’s findings.

In an exclusive interview, Poornima Ramarao shared details of the young engineer's childhood, successes, and death.

OpenAI has extended its full support to the family of former researcher Suchir Balaji, who was found dead in his San Francisco apartment. Balaji had previously raised concerns about the company's use of copyrighted content for training AI models.

EST, the outages tracking website, showed that there were over 15,000 reports of OpenAI not working with a majority, 92 percent, saying the problems were directly related to ChatGPT. The live outage map shows issues occurring across the country,