After 48 hours of furious negotiations, the A.I. company said Mr. Altman would not return to his job and that former Twitch C.E.O. Emmett Shear would be its interim boss.
Disagreements over the board’s makeup appear to be a reason for the delay. Mr. Altman was forced out as chief executive by the company’s board on Friday.
Sam Altman, who was forced out of his company on Friday afternoon, was quickly moving to create another company with another OpenAI executive who quit on Friday.