India, Jan. 30 -- Former Cline AI head Nik Pash has joined Sam Altman's OpenAI after being fired over his "imagine the smell" remark about a picture of the xAI Hackathon, which triggered a massive backlash on social media.

People slammed Pash after he wrote "Imagine the smell" on a picture of hundreds of people sitting in a room working to win the tech event.

Initially, the founder of Cline, Saoud Rizwan, tweeted in support of Pash, adding that his tweet was taken the wrong way. He wrote, "Hey all, I'm founder/ceo at Cline and of south asian descent myself. Fun story cline was started at a hackathon which in fact was quite smelly. I work with Pash everyday and can confirm this tweet was taken the wrong way." Pash reacted and tweeted, "A...