Three senior OpenAI executives — CPO Kevin Weil, Sora head Bill Peebles, and enterprise CTO Srinivas Narayanan — departed on the same day, continuing a two-year leadership exodus that has left only 2 of 11 co-founders at the company. The exits coincide with OpenAI shutting down Sora (discontinuing April 26) and dismantling OpenAI for Science as the company pivots hard toward enterprise AI. Departing talent is flowing to Anthropic, Google DeepMind, and Meta's Superintelligence Labs. OpenAI reports $25B annualised revenue but projects $14B in losses this year, with a leadership team now reconstituted almost entirely around enterprise revenue and operational execution rather than research vision.

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The end of side questsThe broader exodusThe leadership vacuumThe business context
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