Kevin Weil and Bill Peebles exit OpenAI as company continues to shed ‘side quests’
Kevin Weil and Bill Peebles are leaving OpenAI as the company shuts down Sora and folds its science team, signaling a sharp pivot away from consumer moonshots toward enterprise AI.
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