One and a half years after Suchir Balaji's mysterious death in San Francisco and his parents said they are not giving up the fight to prove that it was not a suicide. In a fresh interview with ABC7, his parents, Poornima Ramarao and Balaji Ramamurthy, said their private investigation through a former FBI official is going on and they have received tremendous support for their son's case.
OpenAI researcher-turned-whistleblower Suchir Balaji was found dead in his home in November 2024. The medical examiner ruled the death a suicide but his parents never believed and held OpenAI and Sam Altman responsible for the death. A month before Balaji's death, he gave an interview to The New York Times, where he said OpenAI was breaking the law. He said OpenAI violated US copyright law when they developed ChatGPT. Three months after his accusation and one month after his NYT interview, he was dead.
Balaji's parents attended the recent trial between Elon Musk and OpenAI. They said they wanted to support Elon Musk and also they wanted everyone to know about Suchir Balaji's case.
