OpenAI’s CEO of AGI Deployment, Fidji Simo, Is Stepping Down

OpenAI's No. 2 executive, Fidji Simo, is stepping down from her full-time role after her medical leave proved longer than expected a leadership vacuum that comes at a tricky time as the company eyes a possible IPO and races to catch Anthropic in the enterprise market.

OpenAI's Fidji Simo is departing her full-time role as the company's AGI chief and is transitioning to being a "part-time advisor," she said on X . The news follows Simo's original announcement in April that she would take a few weeks of medical leave due to a neuroimmune condition, shortly after she had taken on the AGI chief title. (She had formerly been the company's CEO of applications). Around the same time, COO Brad Lightcap also stepped down from his role to focus on "special projects," and OpenAI CMO Kate Rouch also stepped down in order to focus on her health.