Chubby♨️ (@kimmonismus) “Scott Gray leaves OpenAI. He joined the company in 2016 and helped build the GPU” — TopicDigg

Scott Gray leaves OpenAI. He joined the company in 2016 and helped build the GPU infrastructure behind its earliest breakthroughs, from sparse transformers and scaling laws to GPT‑3. His exit comes as at least 12 senior leaders have already left OpenAI in 2026. OpenAI’s 2026 departures so far: • Scott Gray - longtime GPU systems engineer • Denise Dresser - Chief Revenue Officer • Brad Lightcap - former COO • Fidji Simo - CEO of Applications • Kevin Weil - Head of OpenAI for Science • Bill Peebles - Head of Sora • Srinivas Narayanan - CTO of B2B Applications • Kate Rouch - Chief Marketing Officer • Barret Zoph - Enterprise Sales lead • Johannes Heidecke - Head of Safety Systems • Joshua Achiam - Chief Futurist • Chloé Bakalar - Head of Ethics • Caitlin Kalinowski - Head of Hardware and Robotics Something is happening at OpenAI.