Bay Area residents Poornima Ramarao and Balaji Ramamurthy lost their only son, Suchir Balaji in November 2024. The 26-year-old, Florida-born, Cupertino-raised AI researcher was found dead in his San Francisco apartment on November 26, just a few days after he returned from a camping trip with his friends. The San Francisco Medical Examiner ruled his death a suicide, but his parents firmly believe that he was murdered.
Suchir Balaji was born to immigrant couple Poornima and Balaji, who moved from India to the United States in 1997. After Suchir was born in Florida, the family moved to Cupertino where Poornima and Balaji built successful careers in tech. Growing up, Suchir also exhibited a prodigious talent for computer science. After completing his undergraduate degree at UC Berkeley, he joined San Francisco-based OpenAI as an AI researcher.
Over four years, Balaji worked on landmark projects like WebGPT (which morphed into ChatGPT,) before quitting the company in August 2024. In an interview with the New York Times, he revealed that Open AI was violating copyright laws and that was why he quit his job. Shortly before his death, the New York Times listed Balaji as a custodian witness in a lawsuit the paper was bringing against OpenAI.
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