Google hires OpenAI’s ‘top executive’, read his message

One of the co-leads on OpenAI’s video generator, Sora, has departed the company to join Google DeepMind. Tim Brooks, who led Sora’s development alongside William Peebles, announced his move to Google’s AI research division on social media platform X (earlier Twitter). Brooks said that he will continue his work on video generation technologies and “world simulators” in Google DeepMind.