Bill Peebles

Fiji, SEMO, gone.

Kevin Wells, Srinivas, Narayan, Bill Peebles, Kate Roush, Barrett Zoff.

I didn't realize it was this many.

These are like head of ethics, head of robotics, head of data centers, head of safety systems, VP of sales America, head of enterprise AI sales.

In recent months, much of OpenAI's senior leadership has left abruptly for various reasons.

In April, the head of OpenAI's video generation and editing system, Sora, Bill Peebles, and OpenAI for Science chief, Kevin Weil, departed the company after OpenAI shut down their projects to focus on its core business.

Soon after, marketing chief Kate Rauch and Fiji Simo, who ran most of that core business as CEO of Applications, stepped down around the same time to focus on their health.

Then, in August, longtime executive Brad Lightcap left to, quote, start something new, while revenue chief Denise Dressers, eight months in that job, ended with little explanation.

And obviously, there's a lot that can be.

It was Bill Peebles, who is a SORA

researcher, not engineer.

And I just like any time a media company or industry or sector is trying to control its own destiny with technology instead of bowing to the tech overlords, I'm in favor of it.