In a post on X, Kaparthy said he left the company, of which he was a founding member, to “work on my personal projects and see what happens” and that his departure from the ChatGPT maker is “not a result of any particular event, issue or drama.” The Information first reported the news. (The Logic, The Information)

Talking point: Kaparthy’s family moved to Toronto from Slovakia when he was 15 and he studied computer science at the University of Toronto and the University of British Columbia. Like fellow OpenAI co-founder Ilya Sutskever, Kaparthy studied with AI pioneer Geoffrey Hinton at the University of Toronto, working with his very first data set while auditing Hinton’s class on neural networks. This is Kaparthy’s second departure from OpenAI—he also left in 2017 for a position as Tesla’s senior director of AI, before returning in February 2023. In a statement to TechCrunch, an unnamed OpenAI spokesperson said Kaparthy’s responsibilities have been transferred to another senior researcher and the company “wish[es] him the best.”