# OpenAI Is Losing the Executives Who Came to Build AI for Science - slug: openai-is-losing-the-executives-who-came-to-build-ai-for-science - date: 2026-04-17 - category: Artificial Intelligence Three senior OpenAI executives focused on how AI actually gets used are gone or sidelined. The science team he built is now folded into a superapp project. The researchers who had a tool are now without one. ---