Barret Zoph is out at OpenAI again after just five months

The Verge
By Hayden FieldJun 19, 2026, 12:49 am203 ptsTrendingTop
Five months after returning to OpenAI, Barret Zoph - the company's head of enterprise AI sales - has departed, The Verge has learned. Zoph returned to OpenAI in mid-January after a stint as co-founder and CTO of Thinking Machines Lab, the competing AI company founded by former OpenAI CTO Mira Murati. Shortly…

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