Sarah Friar appointed OpenAI financial officer
Anjali Sundaram | CNBC
OpenAI hired two executives on Monday and announced a partnership with apple This includes ChatGPT-Siri integration.
The company said former Nextdoor CEO and Square finance chief Sarah Friar will join as chief financial officer. Friar is co-chair of the Digital Economics Laboratory at Stanford University.
OpenAI said: “She will lead a finance team that supports us through continued investment in our core research capabilities and ensuring we can scale to meet the needs of our growing customer base and the complex global environment in which we operate. duty of. Blog article.
OpenAI also hired Kevin Weil, the former president of OpenAI. Planet Labs, as its new chief product officer. Will previously served as senior vice president at Twitter and vice president at Facebook and Instagram. Weil’s product team will focus on “applying our research to products and services that benefit consumers, developers and businesses,” the company wrote.
OpenAI is beefing up its team of senior executives as its large-scale language models become increasingly important in the tech world and competition in the emerging generative artificial intelligence market rapidly intensifies. Although the company has been in high-growth mode since launching ChatGPT in late 2022, OpenAI has also been surrounded by controversy and has seen many employees leave recently.
In May, a group of current and former OpenAI employees published an open letter expressing concerns about the rapid growth of the artificial intelligence industry despite a lack of oversight and whistleblower protections for those willing to speak out.
“AI companies have strong financial incentives to avoid effective oversight, and we do not believe that customized corporate governance structures are sufficient to change this,” they wrote.
OpenAI and Apple announced a partnership on Monday to integrate ChatGPT into iOS, iPadOS and macOS in an update coming later this year.
OpenAI said in an article Blog article This integration allows users to access ChatGPT features such as image and document understanding, as well as text generation and image creation within Apple’s writing tool features.
“Siri can also tap into ChatGPT’s intelligence when it’s helpful,” OpenAI writes. “Apple users are asked any question before sending any file or photo to ChatGPT, and Siri delivers the answer directly.”
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