Mira Murati, OpenAI’s chief technology officer, joins a growing list of OpenAI executives who have departed the company in 2024.
Since ChatGPT took the world by storm in late 2022, OpenAI’s revenue and market value have skyrocketed. But internally, the company hasn’t necessarily had the smoothest ride. The A.I. giant, valued at $150 billion, lost a slew of top executives this year. On Wednesday (Sept. 25) alone, a trio of leaders, including chief technology officer Mira Murati, chief research officer Bob McGrew, and VP of research Barret Zoph, all announced their departures. They join a larger group of former OpenAI employees who have left for rival A.I. developers and startups. As of now, CEO Sam Altman is one of only two active remaining members of the company’s original 11-person founding team.
Andrej Karpathy, research scientist
Ilya Sutskever, chief scientist and co-head of the super alignment team
Jan Leike, co-head of the super alignment team
John Schulman, head of alignment science
Peter Deng, vice president of consumer product
Greg Brockman, president
Mira Murati, chief technology officer
Bob McGrew, chief research officer
Barret Zoph, vice president of research
OpenAI hasn’t just lost employees—it has also rehired some familiar faces. In May, OpenAI welcomed back Kyle Kosic, who worked at the company between 2021 and 2023 on its technical staff. Kosic left last year to join Elon Musk’s xAI. Several other outgoing OpenAI employees have taken similar routes and gone on to work for competing A.I. companies, showing just how competitive the industry is at the moment.
https://www.cnn.com/2024/09/25/tech/openai-technology-chief-mira-murati-leaving/index.html
https://fortune.com/2024/09/26/mira-murati-openai-cto-departure-women/