Shengjia Zhao, Jason Wei and list of other executives, AI researchers who quit OpenAI in 2025
ChatGPT-maker OpenAI is among AI giants in the industry and as the company moved inroads into the expanding AI landscape, it is also the one to go under one of biggest transformation in 2025. OpenAI faced ‘brain drain’ of top-tier talent, losing mostly to Mark Zuckerberg’s Meta, the parent company of Facebook and Instagram. The company suffered the departure of more than a dozen researchers and executives this year, with several lured away by millions in pay and signing bonuses.
Currently, OpenAI has only two of the founding members in the team – CEO Sam Altman and Greg Brockman, president of OpenAI – from the company’s original 11-person group.
