Barret Zoph Departs OpenAI Again After Just Five Months
Original: Barret Zoph is out at OpenAI again after just five months
OpenAI's head of enterprise AI sales Barret Zoph has left the company again after returning only five months ago.
Barret Zoph, OpenAI's head of enterprise AI sales, has departed the company just five months after rejoining in mid-January. Zoph had previously left OpenAI to co-found Thinking Machines Lab — the AI startup launched by former OpenAI CTO Mira Murati — serving there as CTO before returning. His second departure adds to a pattern of executive churn at OpenAI amid an intensely competitive AI landscape.
Barret Zoph, who held the role of head of enterprise AI sales at OpenAI, has left the company for the second time, departing just five months after rejoining in mid-January 2026. The exit was reported by The Verge on June 19, 2026.
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