OpenAI lost three senior leaders on Friday as Kevin Weil, head of OpenAI for Science, Bill Peebles, creator of AI video tool Sora and B2B engineering head Srinivas Narayanan announced departures following the AI startup’s strategic pullback from consumer-facing moonshot projects.
OpenAI Kills ‘Side Quests’
The exits also come as the Sam Altman-led company cuts back on “side quests” in favor of enterprise AI and its upcoming “superapp.”
Sora, which was incurring an estimated $1 million per day in compute costs, was shut down last month. OpenAI for Science, the internal research group behind Prism, an AI-powered platform promising to accelerate scientific discovery, is being absorbed into “other research teams,” according to Weil’s social media post.
Weil’s departure comes after his team released GPT-Rosalind, a new model to expedite life sciences research and drug discovery.
Peebles, in his X post announcing his departure, credited Sora with sparking a “huge amount of investment in video across the industry.”
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