Kevin Weil and Bill Peebles exit OpenAI as company continues to shed ‘side quests’
TechCrunch | 18.04.2026 03:38
OpenAI is losing two of the architects of its most ambitious moonshots. Kevin Weil, who led the company’s science research initiative, and Bill Peebles, the researcher behind AI video tool Sora, both announced their departures on Friday. The exits come as OpenAI consolidates around enterprise AI and its forthcoming “superapp.”
