Overview
- OpenAI saw three senior exits on Friday, as Kevin Weil, Bill Peebles, and Srinivas Narayanan announced they were leaving the company.
- OpenAI confirmed it is shutting down Prism, the scientist workspace led by Weil, and moving its roughly 10-person team into Codex, the developer assistant the company plans to expand.
- Peebles’ departure follows last month’s shutdown of Sora, the short‑form video generator, which the company pulled back to conserve computing resources as reporting has estimated the app’s daily costs at about $1 million.
- Weil said OpenAI for Science is being decentralized, with its staff spread across product, research, and infrastructure groups as the company refocuses on enterprise uses and coding.
- The exits arrive as other senior roles shift, with product chief Fidji Simo on medical leave, marketing head Kate Rouch stepping away for treatment, and COO Brad Lightcap moving to special projects, while some outlets report investor and board concerns about leadership that the company has not confirmed.