Two more OpenAI executives announced their departure from the artificial intelligence (AI) company Wednesday amid reports that the ChatGPT maker is considering restructuring into a for-profit business.\u00a0<\/p>\n
OpenAI\u2019s chief research officer, Bob McGrew, and a vice president of research, Barret Zoph, both announced they would be leaving the company, just hours after Chief Technology Officer Mira Murati shared that she was departing<\/a>.\u00a0<\/p>\n McGrew, who is leaving OpenAI after eight years, said in a statement posted Wednesday night to the social platform X that it was \u201ctime for me to take a break.\u201d\u00a0<\/p>\n \u201cThe last eight years of OpenAI has been a humbling and awe-inspiring journey,\u201d he said. \u201cThe small non-profit I joined in January 2017 has become the most important research and deployment company in the world.\u201d\u00a0<\/p>\n Zoph also explained his \u201cdifficult decision\u201d to leave the AI company in a post on X, describing the current moment as \u201ca natural point for me to explore new opportunities outside of OpenAI.\u201d <\/p>\n \u201cThis is a personal decision based on how I want to evolve the next phase of my career,\u201d he wrote. \u201cOpenAI is doing and will continue to do incredible work and I am very optimistic about the future trajectory of the company and will be rooting everybody on.\u201d\u00a0<\/p>\n OpenAI CEO Sam Altman said in a post of his own Wednesday night that the three company leaders had made their decisions to leave \u201cindependently of each other and amicably.\u201d\u00a0<\/p>\n \u201c[T]he timing of Mira\u2019s decision was such that it made sense to now do this all at once, so that we can work together for a smooth handover to the next generation of leadership,\u201d he said. \u201cI am extremely grateful to all of them for their contributions.\u201d\u00a0<\/p>\n The latest departures follow a string of resignations from OpenAI earlier this year. Co-founder Ilya Sutskever and machine learning researcher Jan Leike both\u00a0left the company in May, while co-founder John Schulman resigned last month.\u00a0<\/p>\n The turnover at the top of the company also\u00a0comes as OpenAI is reportedly considering restructuring to become a for-profit business.\u00a0<\/p>\n As part of the restructuring, the company would become a public benefit corporation, a for-profit entity aimed at bettering society, and would no longer be controlled by its nonprofit board, Reuters first reported<\/a> Wednesday.\u00a0<\/p>\n