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In the message, Altman described Simo as bringing “a rare blend of leadership, product and operational expertise” and expressed that her addition to the team makes him “even more optimistic about our future as we continue advancing toward becoming the superintelligence company.”<\/p>\n
Simo becomes the newest high-profile female executive at OpenAI following the departure<\/a> of Chief Technology Officer Mira Murati in September. Murati, who had been with the company since 2018 and helped launch ChatGPT, left alongside two other senior leaders and founded Thinking Machines Lab<\/a> in February.<\/p>\n The leadership addition comes as OpenAI continues to evolve beyond its origins as a research lab. In his announcement, Altman described how the company now operates in three distinct areas: as a research lab focused on artificial general intelligence (AGI), as a “global product company serving hundreds of millions of users,” and as an “infrastructure company” building systems that advance research and deliver AI tools “at unprecedented scale.”<\/p>\n Altman mentioned that as CEO of OpenAI, he will “continue to directly oversee success across all pillars,” including Research, Compute, and Applications, while staying “closely involved with key company decisions.”<\/p>\nOpenAI\u2019s evolving structure<\/h2>\n