Three senior OpenAI executives left the company on the same day: chief product officer Kevin Weil, Sora creator Bill Peebles, and enterprise CTO Srinivas Narayanan. The departures coincide with OpenAI shutting down its AI video tool Sora — discontinued as of April 26 — and folding its OpenAI for Science team into other research groups.
Sora was reportedly costing around $1 million per day in compute before being shut down. OpenAI for Science, which had launched tools like Prism and GPT-Rosalind, is being absorbed rather than continued as a standalone effort.
The exits fit a pattern. Over the past two years, OpenAI has shed most of its founding team — only 2 of 11 co-founders remain. Departing talent has landed at Anthropic, Google DeepMind, and Meta’s Superintelligence Labs.
What’s left looks less like a research lab and more like an enterprise software company. OpenAI is reportedly pulling back from consumer moonshots in favor of enterprise AI products and a forthcoming superapp. The leadership team is now built almost entirely around revenue and operational execution.
The financials make the tension clear: $25 billion in annualized revenue, but projected losses of $14 billion this year. Whether the pivot toward enterprise closes that gap remains to be seen.

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Three senior OpenAI executives — CPO Kevin Weil, Sora creator Bill Peebles, and enterprise CTO Srinivas Narayanan — departed on the same day. Simultaneously, OpenAI shut down its AI video tool Sora (which was costing ~$1M/day in compute) and folded its OpenAI for Science team into other groups. The departures continue a broader exodus: only 2 of 11 co-founders remain, with talent flowing to Anthropic, Google DeepMind, and Meta. OpenAI appears to be pivoting away from research moonshots toward enterprise products and a superapp, with leadership now focused on revenue execution. The company reports $25B in annualized revenue but faces projected losses of $14B this year.

OpenAI loses CPO, Sora creator, and enterprise CTO in one day as it shuts down Sora and science team

Is OpenAI going to shut down soon?

Sounds like beginning of the end.