OpenAI loses product chief, Sora head, and enterprise CTO in single-day triple exit
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By Alina Maria Stan
Published on April 18, 2026.
Three senior OpenAI executives, former CPO Kevin Weil, Sora head Bill Peebles, and enterprise CTO Srinivas Narayanan, all announced their exits on the same day as the company shut down “side quests” including Sora and OpenAI for Science. This follows a two-year pattern of leadership attrition that has claimed the majority of the company’s original leadership team. Only two of the 11 co-founders remain. The departures come as OpenAI shifts towards enterprise AI, focusing on $25 billion in annualised revenue against projected $14 billion losses. The company is consolidating around its core revenue-generating products, ChatGPT and the API, and shutting down exploratory projects that do not contribute directly to the enterprise business.
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