Overview
- Three leaders — Kevin Weil, Bill Peebles, and Srinivas Narayanan — announced departures Friday in the latest shake-up at the AI company.
- OpenAI confirmed it is sunsetting Prism, its AI workspace for scientists, and moving the roughly 10-person team into Thibault Sottiaux’s Codex group.
- The company said it is decentralizing OpenAI for Science to place the work closer to teams building models, products, and infrastructure.
- OpenAI previously shut down Sora, a short-form video app, citing cost and compute limits, and TechCrunch reported the project was burning about $1 million per day.
- Executives and company statements frame the changes as a shift toward enterprise offerings and a consolidated “superapp” plan after recent leadership moves, including medical leaves for product chief Fidji Simo and marketing head Kate Rouch.