Suchir Balaji, the 26-year-old OpenAI researcher-turned-whistleblower, was found dead in an apartment in San Francisco, US last month. His death on November 26 was determined suicide by the San Francisco medical examiner's office.

An OpenAI researcher-turned-whistleblower has been found dead in his San Francisco apartment, authorities confirmed. The body of 26-year-old Suchir Balaji was discovered on November 26, after police received a call requesting a welfare check on him.

Employee-turned-whistleblower Suchir Balaji had alleged that OpenAI had flouted the norms of fair use under the US copyright act in sourcing data for its GPT-4 model to analyse and train on.