So did Greg Brockman, what a weird turn of events

He would have been asked to step out and not had a vote in situations like these.

Why would Brockman have to step out of the room?

Who said anything about Brockman?

The OpenAI post, for one: Brockman lost his board seat.

Not Brockman, Altman.

Another article I read said both Sam Altman and Brockman left the room for the vote.

Greg Brockman was President and Chairman of the Board.

He was also removed from the board in this process.

Greg just announced he is leaving Open AI as well.

Announcement on twitter: https://twitter.com/gdb/status/1725667410387378559

That board meeting will be in a movie someday I'm pretty sure.

Only if it was contentious. From the strength of the press release, it sounds like it was a unanimous forced-hand decision.

I doubt that Altman voted to have himself removed so probably not unanimous. A movie scene about the reveal to the board would still be compelling.

Since both Sam and Greg are gone, that implies a 4-2 decision, which is as far from unanimous decision as a 6-person board could possibly make.

Given that personnel matters affecting an individual on the board often have mandatory recusal of the affected party, that's likely a 4-0 or two 4-1 decisions, depending on how they were structured.

A single 4-0 decision would imply the bylaws allow any group of members to oust all the other members by making a single proposal to oust everyone but their group, thus automatically forcing everyone else to recuse themselves :p

Yes, this can happen, though generally the ousting party would also need to be able to point to some policy or legal transgression to do it without putting themselves at risk of a lawsuit.