Barret Zoph is out at OpenAI again after just five months

Barret Zoph, OpenAI’s head of enterprise AI sales, has left the company again just five months after returning in mid-January, following a stint as co-founder and CTO of Thinking Machines Lab. His exit matters because OpenAI had put him in charge of its enterprise push as it tries to focus on major revenue drivers like enterprise and coding ahead of a planned IPO.

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 after Zoph returned to OpenAI, the company said he would lead its push into enterprise - a significant role at OpenAI, 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.