The mom of the late Suchir Balaji, a former OpenAI worker turned whistleblower, has raised over $140,000 price of cryptocurrency to gas an impartial investigation after she claims her son didn’t die by suicide.
Balaji was discovered useless in his San Francisco condo in November, with authorities figuring out the style of demise to be suicide. Nonetheless, his mom Poornima Ramarao disputes this conclusion, instantly launching a marketing campaign for a “complete investigation” into her son’s demise.
“We’re the dad and mom of blissful, sensible, and courageous younger man Suchir,” Ramarao posted on X (previously generally known as Twitter). “His time of demise is [a] few hours after his final name with household. We don’t perceive, inside [a] few hours, what occurred doesn’t align together with his blissful temper and return from trip.”
Balaji labored as a researcher at OpenAI from November 2020 to August 2024, earlier than going to the New York Occasions to make a litany of allegations in opposition to the corporate as a whistleblower, claiming the AI large was breaking copyright legal guidelines.
Two weeks after his demise, Ramarao claims to have employed a non-public investigator to hold out a second post-mortem. This investigator didn’t come to the identical reason for demise because the police, as a substitute discovering indicators of wrestle.
“It’s a cold-blooded homicide,” Ramarao posted on X. “We demand [an] FBI investigation.”
Impartial journalist George Webb later launched a video, in opposition to the desire of the household, displaying himself strolling round Balaji’s condo that’s nonetheless lined in blood. On this video, he factors out what he believes to be proof that the previous OpenAI worker didn’t die by suicide.
Because the household’s conviction grew, they claimed to have signed a retainer with an legal professional. With assist from the staff behind Solana token Justice For Suchir (SUCHIR), Ramarao arrange a Solana pockets and posted it on X, asking for donations to fund $100,000 in authorized charges.
Now three days later, the pockets holds over $140,000 in Solana (SOL) and a basket of different Suchir-inspired meme cash on the chain. The staff behind the aforementioned SUCHIR token, the biggest of the tokens devoted to the whistleblower, claims to be working instantly with the household to amplify the message.
“We’re doing every thing we will to deliver consciousness and assist fundraise,” a spokesperson for Justice for Suchir informed Decrypt.
Decrypt additionally reached out to Ramarao instantly, however didn’t instantly obtain a response.
Edited by Andrew Hayward
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