本文探讨了人工智能公司OpenAI近期面临的内部动荡和管理挑战。公司多名高级管理人员，包括首席技术官米拉·穆拉蒂在内的多位创始成员相继离职，引发了对CEO山姆·奥特曼领导能力的质疑。这一事件发生在OpenAI试图以高估值筹集大额资金的关键时期，使公司面临更多压力。

结构
①②段介绍了OpenAI高管离职的最新情况，突出了公司内部的不稳定性。

③段描述了公司对这一情况的回应，以及由此引发的新的争议。

④段分析了给予奥特曼大量股权的可能原因及其潜在好处。

⑤段提出了对奥特曼领导能力的质疑，暗示了公司可能存在的深层问题。

原文及翻译
① Afew weeks ago people within OpenAI were keen to assure your correspondent that the maker of ChatGPT had matured, following the coup almost a year ago against Sam Altman and the counter-coup shortly afterwards that reinstated him as CEO. But on September 25th not even Mr Altman could sustain the fiction. "We are not a normal company," he tweeted, admitting he was caught out by the abrupt decision to quit by Mira Murati, OpenAI's chief technology officer（pictured with Mr Altman last year）.

几周前，OpenAI内部人士还热衷于向您的记者保证，ChatGPT的制造商在经历了近一年前针对山姆·奥特曼的政变以及随后不久将他重新任命为CEO的反政变后已经成熟了。但在9月25日，就连奥特曼先生也无法维持这个假象。“我们不是一家普通的公司，”他在推特上写道，承认自己被OpenAI首席技术官米拉·穆拉蒂（去年与奥特曼先生合影）突然决定辞职的消息打了个措手不及。

② The resignation of one of Mr Altman's most prominent deputies, along with those of two other senior executives, is the latest in an exodus of OpenAI veterans, including most of those who co-founded the firm in 2015. It is taking place amid efforts by OpenAI to raise $6.5bn at a stonkingly high valuation and revives serious questions about Mr Altman's leadership qualities.

奥特曼先生最重要的副手之一，以及另外两名高级管理人员的辞职，是OpenAI老员工离职潮的最新一波，其中包括大多数2015年共同创立公司的人。这一事件发生在OpenAI试图以令人震惊的高估值筹集65亿美元的努力中，并再次引发了关于奥特曼先生领导能力的严重质疑。

③ Ms Murati gave no indication her departure was acrimonious. Mr Altman sought to put a positive spin on it, announcing that a succession plan was in place and that he would spend more time running the "technical and product" part of the company. News from Bloomberg that OpenAI was discussing giving Mr Altman a 7% equity stake as part of efforts to restructure it as a for-profit company stirred further controversy, though. "This is deeply wrong," said Elon Musk, one of OpenAI's co-founders（and a longtime antagonist of Mr Altman）, on X, his social-media platform.

穆拉蒂女士没有表示她的离职是不愉快的。奥特曼先生试图对此做出积极的解释，宣布已经有继任计划，并且他将花更多时间管理公司的“技术和产品”部分。然而，彭博社报道称OpenAI正在讨论给予奥特曼先生7%的股权，作为将公司重组为营利性公司努力的一部分，这引发了进一步的争议。“这是非常错误的，”OpenAI的联合创始人之一（也是奥特曼先生的长期对手）埃隆·马斯克在他的社交媒体平台X上说。

④ If OpenAI is valued, as expected, at about $150bn in the latest funding round, such a stake could shower billions on Mr Altman. Investors may feel that is justified. OpenAI has pioneered generative artificial intelligence, releasing product after product ahead of its peers, for which its leader deserves credit. It is considering transitioning from a non-profit with a capped-profit arm to a new structure in which investors would get a bigger share of the cake. In such a set-up, giving Mr Altman a big stake would better align his interests with theirs. As for the culture, insiders say, it may be quirky, but that helps give it a technological edge.

如果OpenAI在最新一轮融资中的估值如预期达到约1500亿美元，这样的股权可能会为奥特曼先生带来数十亿美元。投资者可能认为这是合理的。OpenAI在生成式人工智能领域开辟了先河，不断领先于同行推出产品，其领导者值得为此得到赞誉。公司正在考虑从一个有盈利上限的非营利组织转变为一个投资者能获得更大蛋糕份额的新结构。在这样的设置中，给予奥特曼先生大量股权将使他的利益与投资者的利益更好地保持一致。至于公司文化，内部人士说，它可能有些怪异，但这有助于公司保持技术优势。

⑤ And yet Mr Altman's failure to retain top executives may also be a red flag. One longtime Silicon Valley observer says the sense of upheaval looks similar to that at Uber, the ride-hailing company, in the days when it was led by Travis Kalanick. "Phenomenal product, rotten culture," as he puts it. That's not an image OpenAI's potential investors will savour.

然而，奥特曼先生未能留住高管也可能是一个危险信号。一位长期观察硅谷的人士表示，这种动荡感与优步在特拉维斯·卡兰尼克领导时期的情况类似。正如他所说的，“产品很棒，但文化糟糕。”这并不是OpenAI潜在投资者会喜欢看到的形象。