In a significant executive shuffle announced Monday, OpenAI is expanding COO Brad Lightcap’s responsibilities while CEO Sam Altman shifts his attention more toward the company’s technical direction. The news was first reported by Bloomberg. Lightcap will now “oversee day-to-day opera tions,” international expansion, and manage key partnerships with tech giants like Microsoft and Apple, according to Bloomberg. OpenAI has also promoted Mark Chen to chief research officer (he was recently SVP of research) and Julia Villagra to chief people officer (she was formerly VP of people). “OpenAI has grown a lot. We remain focused on the same core — pursuing frontier AI research that accelerates human progress — but we now also deliver products used by hundreds of millions of people,” the company wrote in a blog post announcing the changes. The company told Bloomberg that the latest leadership changes mean CEO Sam Altman is “focusing more on guiding the ChatGPT maker’s research and product efforts” and have no plans to replace former CTO Mira Murati, who left in September to launch her own AI startup. The changes to OpenAI’s leadership is shifting thanks to some vacancies … Read the full story at The Verge. ...read more read less