Bill Peebles<\/a>, who led OpenAI’s defunct short-form video app Sora<\/a>, and Kevin Weil<\/a>, the vice president of OpenAI for Science, shared the news about their exits in separate posts on X on Friday. <\/p>\n An OpenAI spokesperson said the company is decentralizing OpenAI for Science in an effort to bring its work closer to the teams that are building leading model capabilities, products and infrastructure. <\/p>\n Srinivas Narayanan<\/a>, CTO of B2B Applications at OpenAI, also announced that he would be leaving in a post on X.<\/p>\n The departures come just weeks after Fidji Simo<\/a>,\u00a0OpenAI’s\u00a0product and business chief, announced she would take a medical leave<\/a> because of a worsening\u00a0neuroimmune condition<\/a>. Kate Rouch, OpenAI’s marketing chief, also decided to step down to focus on her cancer recovery earlier this month, and Brad Lightcap, OpenAI’s operating chief, transitioned to a new role focused on “special projects.”<\/p>\n Weil joined OpenAI in 2024 and served as the company’s chief product officer before launching OpenAI for Science the following year, which aimed to “build the next great scientific instrument: an AI-powered platform that accelerates scientific discovery,” according to a post on LinkedIn<\/a>. He previously held leadership roles at Meta<\/a> and Twitter. <\/p>\n “It’s been a mind-expanding two years, from Chief Product Officer to joining the research team and starting OpenAI for Science,” Weil wrote on Friday. <\/p>\n Peebles joined OpenAI in 2023, and helped orchestrate Sora’s buzzy launch that catapulted the app to the top of Apple<\/a>‘s App Store. Sora allowed users to\u00a0generate short videos<\/a> and post them to a shared feed, but OpenAI shuttered the app last month as it looks to reel in costs and reallocate compute resources ahead of a potential IPO.<\/p>\n “I’m proud of all the sleepless nights before and after the launch this team endured in order to deploy the technology in a responsible way and help steer societal norms,” Peebles wrote. “Sora was a project that could not have happened anywhere but OpenAI, and I will always deeply love this place for that.”<\/p>\n
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