How do we explain OpenAI’s executive exodus?
OpenAI is the original frontier lab. Its latest publicly released model, GPT-5.6, is one of the most capable and efficient on the market. Its desktop app for agentic coding and workplace tasks has seen its user base grow by about 15 million subscribers in the last two months.
OpenAI has also already filed to go public. So why are all the executives heading out the door?
Since the turn of the year, more than a dozen executives have departed, including CEO Sam Altman’s top deputy, the chief operating officer, a chief revenue officer, its chief marketing officer, as well as several different team leads. Yesterday, news broke that Chris Malone, the company’s head of data centers, left the company last week after joining in March 2024.
Some of those departures have come due to health issues, and others are were due to reorganization that occurred...
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