According to The Verge, former Instacart CEO Fidji Simo Officially taken over OpenAI most of the business, is responsible for managing the company's roughly 3,000 employees, and bears the burden of transforming the startup into a public tech giant.
As CEO of OpenAI's consumer business, Simo's arrival marks a significant realignment of power structures within OpenAI.With her extensive experience at Facebook and Instacart, as well as her in-depth knowledge of the advertising industry, she was considered the right person to drive the commercialization of ChatGPT.
The change also reveals OpenAI's transition from an early non-profit research organization to a more Silicon Valley-typical tech company.Altman will reportedly focus more on raising trillions of dollars for large-scale computing projects and incubating a brain-computer interface startup than managing day-to-day operations.
While Altman remains directly involved in OpenAI's research, computing and hardware programs, he has made it clear that he cannot manage multiple business segments at once.
In an internal organizational realignment, top executives reporting directly to Altman are expected to include Greg Brockman, company president; Mark Chen, chief research officer; Jakub Pachocki, chief scientist; and others.
While Fidji Simo takes over the team associated with consumer applications, including COO Brad Lightcap, CFO Sarah Friar, and Chief Product Officer Kevin Weil, her first priority is to expand the consumer product line, which currently consists of just one OpenAI application - ChatGPT - and the browser product may be next. -ChatGPT, and a browser product may be next.