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Barret Zoph is out at OpenAI again after just five months

The Verge · Jun 19, 2026, 4:49 AM · Also reported by 2 other sources

Five months after returning to Open AI, Barret Zoph - the company's head of enterprise AI sales - has departed, The Verge has learned. Zoph returned to Open AI in mid-January after a stint as co-founder and CTO of Thinking Machines Lab, the competing AI company founded by former Open AI CTO Mira Murati. Shortly after Zoph returned to Open AI, the company said he would lead its push into enterprise - a significant role at Open AI, since in recent months it had vowed to stop chasing so-called "side quests" and focus on key revenue drivers like enterprise and coding ahead of its planned IPO. OpenAI confirmed to The Verge that Zoph will be depart … Read the full story at The Verge.

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