Barret Zoph Leaves OpenAI After 5 Months as Enterprise AI Sales Head
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Updated · The Verge · Jun 19
Barret Zoph Leaves OpenAI After 5 Months as Enterprise AI Sales Head
2 articles · Updated · The Verge · Jun 19
Summary
Five months after rejoining in January, Barret Zoph has left OpenAI again, ending a brief stint leading the company’s enterprise AI sales effort.
OpenAI confirmed the departure, and Zoph posted a goodbye message internally after taking a role tied to one of the company’s key revenue priorities ahead of a planned IPO.
Zoph had returned from Thinking Machines Lab, the startup founded by former OpenAI CTO Mira Murati, where he had served as co-founder and CTO.
That January exit from Thinking Machines came after reports of alleged misconduct involving an undisclosed relationship with a colleague, and Murati said the company had parted ways with him.