Barret Zoph exits OpenAI for Google's research VP
barret zoph left openai after 5 months to join google as vice president of research. this move adds to the high turnover rate in the ai industry.
barret zoph co-founded thinking machines with mira murati and luke metz, then rejoined openai in january to head ai enterprise sales. after just 5 months, zoph left openai and has now taken a position as vice president of research at google. at google, zoph will bring his reinforcement learning and post-training expertise to the gemini project. this move is the latest in a series of high-profile executive departures from openai, which has seen significant staff turnover in recent months.