OpenAI has lost a lot of top leadership lately, but they're gaining a big one: a top AI researcher from Microsoft. In the wake of several high-profile exits, Microsoft's Sebastien Bubeck is joining the OpenAI team,

As of this writing, neither OpenAI nor Bubeck have shared his new title.

High-profile exits from OpenAI, and now Microsoft, signal fierce competition for AI talent as big tech companies race toward developing artificial general intelligence (AGI), with top executives shifting between industry leaders.

Microsoft on Monday said that its vice president of GenAI research, Sebastien Bubeck, is leaving the company to join ChatGPT-maker OpenAI.

His role at Open AI, reported, has not been specified, but his departure points out the close working relationship and talent exchange shared between the two entities.

Bubeck’s exit follows his key involvement in Microsoft’s development of Phi LLMs, a more compact version of traditional AI models. Despite his departure, Microsoft has confirmed that research in this area will continue,

Sebastien Bubeck, the Vice President of Generative AI research at Microsoft, has left the tech giant to join OpenAI, the company behind ChatGPT. The exact role Bubeck will take on at the Sam Altman-led firm is not known yet. A Microsoft spokesperson confirmed the move by Bubeck, and expressed hope for future collaborations with him.

Sebastian Bubeck, a prominent figure in Microsoft’s artificial intelligence research, has left the company to join OpenAI, marking a major shift in the AI research landscape. This departure was first reported by The Information and later confirmed by Reuters.