The mother of the late Suchir Balaji, a former OpenAI employee turned whistleblower, has raised over $140,000 worth of cryptocurrency to fuel an independent investigation after she claims her son didn’t die by suicide.
Balaji was found dead in his San Francisco apartment in November, with authorities determining the manner of death to be suicide. However, his mother Poornima Ramarao disputes this conclusion, immediately launching a campaign for a "comprehensive investigation" into her son’s death.
“We are the parents of happy, smart, and brave young man Suchir,” Ramarao posted on X (formerly known as Twitter). “His time of death is [a] few hours after his last call with family. We don’t understand, within [a] few hours, what happened does not align with his happy mood and return from vacation.”
Balaji worked as a researcher at OpenAI from November 2020 to August 2024, before going to the New York Times to make a litany of allegations against the company as a whistleblower, claiming the AI giant was breaking copyright laws.
Two weeks after his death, Ramarao claims to have hired a private investigator to carry out a second autopsy. This investigator did not come to the same cause of death as the police, instead finding signs of struggle.
“It’s a cold-blooded murder,” Ramarao posted on X. “We demand [an] FBI investigation.”
Independent journalist George Webb later released a video, against the will of the family, showing himself walking around Balaji’s apartment that is...
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