OpenAI Hires Instacart C.E.O. to Run Business and Operations

Openai He said Late on Wednesday, Fidji Simo, CEO of Instacart, rented to take over a new role that runs the business teams and operations of the AI.
In a blog post, Saman, CEO of Openai, said he will remain responsible as the company president. He said that the appointment of Mrs. Simo as an executive head of applications will lead to his liberation to focus on other parts of the institution, including research, computing and safety systems.
“We have become a global product company that serves hundreds of millions of users all over the world and grows very quickly,” said Mr. Al -Tamman in the blog’s blog blog. He added that Openai has also become a “infrastructure company” that has provided widely artificial intelligence tools.
“Each of this effort is a great effort that can be his own large company,” he wrote. “The presentation of exceptional leaders is an essential part of doing it well.”
Mrs. Simo, a member of the Openai Board of Directors, will supervise sales, marketing and financing. It will make a report to Mr. Altman.
Openai, which was ignorant of frenzy on artificial intelligence with Chatbot Chatgpt, has quickly grown and toured multiple initiatives – sometimes to no avail. San Francisco is steadily released the new Amnesty International models and products, including the systems that can “a reason“In March, that I completed a $ 40 billion funding dealSoftbank, which is estimated at $ 300 billion and made it one of the most valuable private companies in the world.
But Openai, which was created as a non -profit organization, struggled Adopting the new corporate structure. With the growth of the commercial call for artificial intelligence, the company tried to remove itself from controlled by a non -profit. It attracted that scrutiny from critics such as Elon Musk, the founder of Openai who filed a lawsuit against the company and accused it of profit before the integrity of artificial intelligence. California and Dillauir general lawyers also examined the restructuring.
On Monday, Openai I retracted the plan She would allow the non -profit organization to keep its handle on the company.
(New York Times prosecution Openai and her partner, Microsoft, accused of violating copyright in terms of news content related to artificial intelligence systems. Openai and Microsoft denied these claims.)
In a statement late on Wednesday, Ms. Simo said that Openai “has the potential to accelerate human capabilities at an unprecedented pace before and I am strongly committed to forming these applications towards the public good.”
She added in a note to InstaCart employees that she had “a passion for artificial intelligence, especially for the capabilities she had to treat diseases” and that “the ability to lead such an important part of our collective future was a difficult opportunity to pass.”
Mrs. Simo will remain in InstaCart for the next few months, as the company calls Khalifa, a role that she said will be filled with a member of the InstaCart management team. It will also remain in the company’s board of directors as its chairman.
“Today’s announcement is not a reflection of any changes in our business or operations,” Instacart said in a statement.