Veteran OpenAI executive Brad Lightcap announced connected Tuesday that he's leaving the company, the latest departure astatine the AI juggernaut arsenic it orients itself toward an first nationalist offering.
Lightcap served arsenic the company's main financial serviceman and chief operating officer during his eight-year tenure, and astir precocious led a typical projects squad astatine OpenAI. He shared a goodbye connection pinch unit and reposted it to X, calling the departure "bittersweet" and saying that he was leaving "to commencement thing new."
He said he planned to proceed helping beforehand OpenAI’s mission “from a different vantage point,” but offered nary details. Lightcap said he'd still beryllium astir and disposable to unit for a fewer weeks.
When asked for comment, OpenAI pointed to Lightcap's station Lightcap did not instantly respond to requests for comment.
Lightcap's departure comes conscionable a period aft Fidji Simo, besides formerly a apical OpenAI executive, announced that she'd beryllium stepping down into an advisory domiciled astatine the company. Johannes Heidecke, OpenAI's caput of information systems, besides near successful July. Other caller departures see the company's AI morals lead Chloé Bakalar and main futurist Joshua Achiam, the Financial Times reported.
Lightcap transitioned to his special projects role successful April. An soul memo astatine the clip said he would study to CEO Sam Altman and thief grow OpenAI's endeavor package income done backstage equity partnerships. Denise Dresser, the company's then-new main gross officer, took connected immoderate of Lightcap's different commercialized duties.
Before joining OpenAI successful 2018, Lightcap invested astatine Y Combinator, worked astatine Dropbox connected strategical finance, and was an finance banking expert astatine J.P. Morgan.
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