Barret Zoph departs OpenAI again five months after returning as enterprise AI head
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Hayden Field
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Barret Zoph has left OpenAI again just five months after returning, where he served as head of enterprise AI sales. He had rejoined in mid-January after co-founding Thinking Machines Lab, a competitor founded by former OpenAI CTO Mira Murati. His departure comes as OpenAI was focusing on enterprise and coding as key revenue drivers ahead of its planned IPO.
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The VergeBarret Zoph departs OpenAI again five months after returning as enterprise AI headtheverge.comKey quotes
· 3 pulledFive months after returning to OpenAI, Barret Zoph — the company's head of enterprise AI sales — has departed, The Verge has learned.
Zoph returned to OpenAI in mid-January after a stint as co-founder and CTO of Thinking Machines Lab, the competing AI company founded by former OpenAI CTO Mira Murati.
Shortly after Zoph returned to OpenAI, the company said he would lead its push into enterprise — a significant role at OpenAI, since in recent months it had vowed to stop chasing so-called 'side quests' and focus on key revenue drivers like enterprise and coding ahead of its planned IPO.
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