Kevin Weil and Bill Peebles exit OpenAI as company continues to shed ‘side quests’

OpenAI is losing two key researchers, Kevin Weil and Bill Peebles, who led the company's science research initiative and developed AI video tool Sora respectively. Their departures come as OpenAI consolidates around enterprise AI and its "superapp." Weil's team, OpenAI for Science, is being absorbed into other research teams, while Sora was shut down last month due to high compute costs.