OpenAI Loses Three More Executives — Kevin Weil, Bill Peebles, Srinivas Narayanan Depart as Science Division Dissolved

r/singularity·high signal

Kevin Weil (who led OpenAI for Science), Bill Peebles (head of Sora), and Srinivas Narayanan (CTO of enterprise applications) all departed OpenAI on April 17. Weil confirmed on X that 'OpenAI for Science is being decentralized into other research teams,' effectively dissolving the division behind the Prism scientific AI platform. Combined with Sora's shutdown last month (which was costing an estimated $1M/day in compute), the departures confirm OpenAI's aggressive pivot away from consumer moonshots toward enterprise AI and its forthcoming 'superapp.'