OpenAI chief product officer Kevin Weil departed the company on April 25, 2026, alongside two other senior executives in a single day of exits that underscores a broader period of upheaval at the AI company.
Weil, who joined OpenAI in June 2024 and most recently led a scientific AI initiative called OpenAI for Science, confirmed his departure in a social media post. “Today is my last day at OpenAI, as OpenAI for Science is being decentralized into other research teams,” he wrote. “It’s been a mind-expanding two years, from Chief Product Officer to joining the research team and starting OpenAI for Science.” Before OpenAI, Weil was an early product executive at Instagram.
Also departing on the same day were Srinivas Narayanan, OpenAI’s chief technology officer of enterprise applications, who announced internally he is leaving to spend time with his family, and Bill Peebles, head of Sora, who posted on X that he was done at the company.
OpenAI is sunsetting Prism, the AI workspace for scientists that Weil had been building since its January 2026 launch as a web app. The roughly 10-person team behind it will move under OpenAI’s head of Codex, Thibault Sottiaux, with Prism’s capabilities set to be folded into the desktop Codex app. An OpenAI spokesperson said the changes are part of an effort to unify the company’s business and product strategy. OpenAI has broader ambitions to turn Codex, its AI coding application, into an “everything app.”
The departures reflect a wider strategic refocus at OpenAI around enterprise offerings and coding, as the company faces competitive pressure and prepares to file for an IPO later in 2026. In March, OpenAI’s CEO of AGI deployment, Fidji Simo, told staff the company needs to simplify its product offerings — a push that has already resulted in the discontinuation of its Sora video-generation app. Separately on Friday, OpenAI announced a new series of AI models called GPT-Rosalind, built to assist life sciences researchers.
The three exits are the latest in a series of executive changes at OpenAI. Simo recently took a medical leave, with cofounder and president Greg Brockman stepping in to oversee products in the interim. Chief marketing officer Kate Rouch also took a medical leave of absence, and chief operating officer Brad Lightcap moved to a “special projects” role. CEO Sam Altman acknowledged the turbulence in a recent blog post, writing: “I am also very aware that OpenAI is now a major platform, not a scrappy startup, and we need to operate in a more predictable way now. It has been an extremely intense, chaotic, and high-pressure few years.”
Source: Business Latest