12 executives, researchers, others who left OpenAI in 2025 — mostly to Meta Superintelligence Lab

OpenAI lost at least 11 scientists and executives in 2025, including more than half a dozen researchers to Meta in the summer.

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• OpenAI lost more than half a dozen researchers to Meta in the summer of 2025.
• The chief people officer and the chief communications officer also left OpenAI.
• A top OpenAI researcher left to found a startup that aims to create an AI scientist.

OpenAI had a year of high-profile departures.

Over the summer...