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Fidji Simo steps down from leading OpenAI’s AGI work due to illness

Zac Boring July 9, 2026 1 min read
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OpenAI's Fidji Simo is departing her full-time role as the company's AGI chief and is transitioning to being a "part-time advisor," she said on X. The news follows Simo's original announcement in April that she would take a few weeks of medical leave due to a neuroimmune condition, shortly after she had taken on the […]

By Jay Peters

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