Parents of Suchir Balaji, Poornima Ramarao, left, and Balaji Ramamurthy, right, hold a photograph of their son from 2022, in their home in Alameda County, Calif., on Monday, Dec. 23, 2024.

The family of Suchir Balaji, the 26-year-old OpenAI whistleblower who was found dead just a month after his New York Times exposé was published, is claiming that the young man was murdered.

Suchir Balaji, a former OpenAI engineer and whistleblower who helped train the artificial intelligence systems behind ChatGPT and later said he believed those practices violated copyright law, has ...

Parents of Suchir Balaji, Poornima Ramarao, left, and Balaji Ramamurthy, right, hold a photograph of their son from 2022, in their home in Alameda County, Calif., on Monday, Dec. 23, 2024.

Indeed, Balaji’s death — of a self-inflicted gunshot, per the San Francisco County Medical Examiner’s report — had become a focal point in debates over AI ethics, corporate accountability ...

Former OpenAI employee Suchir Balaji died by suicide late last month. He was part of a key copyright lawsuit that could have far-reaching implications for AI models like ChatGPT. Jaque Silva/NurPhoto ...

Suchir Balaji, a former OpenAI engineer from the Bay Area, and a whistleblower who helped train the artificial intelligence systems behind ChatGPT, was found deceased in his San Francisco apartment.

Suchir Balaji spent nearly four years as an artificial intelligence researcher at OpenAI. Among other projects, he helped gather and organize the enormous amounts of internet data the company used ...

Suchir Balaji, a 26-year-old former OpenAI researcher who backed claims of copyright infringement by the technology, was found dead on Nov. 26 in his San Francisco apartment by police making a ...