{"id":101476,"date":"2026-07-10T10:16:20","date_gmt":"2026-07-10T10:16:20","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ai\/101476\/"},"modified":"2026-07-10T10:16:20","modified_gmt":"2026-07-10T10:16:20","slug":"openai-applications-chief-fidji-simo-steps-down-from-full-time-role-over-chronic-illness-recovery-says","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ai\/101476\/","title":{"rendered":"OpenAI Applications Chief Fidji Simo Steps Down From Full-Time Role Over Chronic Illness Recovery, Says &#8216;"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"block core-block\">Fidji Simo stepped down from her full-time role as OpenAI\u2018s president of applications on Thursday, transitioning to a part-time advisory position after her chronic illness recovery proved longer than she had anticipated.<\/p>\n<p class=\"block core-block\">In her X post, Simo wrote that she \u201cshared with the OpenAI team that I have decided to leave my full-time role at OpenAI and transition to being a part-time advisor.\u201d <\/p>\n<p class=\"block core-block\">She added that the truth is that she is \u201conly making this decision now because I failed to make it many times before.\u201d<\/p>\n<p class=\"block core-block\">Responding to Simo\u2019s post, Rishi N. Reddy, a colleague and co-founder, called Simo \u201can n of 1,\u201d writing that \u201csometimes the harder thing isn\u2019t to keep pushing, it\u2019s knowing when to prioritize you.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>From Instacart to OpenAI\u2019s Applications Chief<\/p>\n<p class=\"block core-block\">Simo\u2019s change in role follows a string of <a href=\"https:\/\/www.benzinga.com\/markets\/tech\/26\/05\/52313538\/openai-exodus-continues-as-two-senior-executives-depart-for-google-thrive-capital\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">senior departures<\/a> at OpenAI this year, including its head of private equity leaving for Google and a sales leader departing for Thrive Capital.<\/p>\n<p class=\"block core-block\">Simo also thanked OpenAI CEO Altman, President Brockman and the board for their support. In her post, she said she remains committed to working toward disease cures through OpenAI and her involvement with Chronicle BioAI and CODA Research.<\/p>\n<p class=\"block core-block\">Photo Courtesy: Shutterstock<\/p>\n<p class=\"block core-block\">Disclaimer: This content was partially produced with the help of AI tools and was reviewed and published by Benzinga editors.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Fidji Simo stepped down from her full-time role as OpenAI\u2018s president of applications on Thursday, transitioning to a&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":101477,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[7],"tags":[15261,5893,5896,5892,157,5891,52830,9068,14946,41423,9466,9656],"class_list":["post-101476","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-openai","tag-category-management","tag-category-news","tag-category-tech","tag-cms-wordpress","tag-openai","tag-pageisbzpro-bz","tag-symbol-cart","tag-symbol-meta","tag-tag-google","tag-tag-mark-zuckerberg","tag-tag-openai","tag-tag-sam-altman"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ai\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/101476","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ai\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ai\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ai\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ai\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=101476"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ai\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/101476\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ai\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/101477"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ai\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=101476"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ai\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=101476"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ai\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=101476"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}