Suchir Balaji, 26, was found dead inside his Buchanan Street apartment on Nov. 26, San Francisco police and the Office of the Chief Medical Examiner said. Police had been called to the Lower Haight residence at about 1 p.m. that day, after receiving a call asking officers to check on his well-being, a police spokesperson said.

An OpenAI researcher turned whistleblower who accused the company of violating copyright law when it trained the artificial-intelligence models underlying ChatGPT has reportedly died.

Suchir Balaji, a 26-year-old former OpenAI researcher, died by suicide at his San Francisco apartment on November 26. Weeks before he passed away, Balaji, a major contributor to GPT-4 and ChatGPT, openly denounced OpenAI's usage of copyrighted material.

A former OpenAI employee has been found dead at his San Francisco apartment and officials determined he took his own life, months after he spoke to the New York Times about his view that his former employer’s AI programs violated copyright law.