{"text":[[{"start":9.09,"text":"OpenAI’s chief operating officer is changing roles amid a broader management shake-up as the group prepares for an initial public offering as soon as this year. "}],[{"start":19.83,"text":"The ChatGPT-maker told employees on Friday that COO Brad Lightcap would take on new responsibilities focused on special projects, according to a memo seen by the FT. "}],[{"start":33.41,"text":"Lightcap, one of chief executive Sam Altman’s most trusted lieutenants, will oversee the group’s effort to get businesses to adopt AI by embedding company engineers in customers’ teams. Denise Dresser, who joined OpenAI from Salesforce as chief revenue officer, will absorb most of Lightcap’s previous responsibilities. "}],[{"start":55.41,"text":"Kate Rouch, chief marketing officer, will step down from her position as she recovers from cancer. She is expected to return in a different role. OpenAI is conducting a search for a replacement. "}],[{"start":68.71,"text":"The start-up’s applications chief, Fidji Simo, will also take medical leave for several weeks. Simo is seeking treatment for a pre-existing condition, she told employees in the memo. "}],[{"start":81.19999999999999,"text":"“We have a strong leadership team focused on our biggest priorities: advancing frontier research, growing our global user base of nearly 1bn users, and powering enterprise use cases,” OpenAI said in a statement. "}],[{"start":97.78999999999999,"text":"“We’re well-positioned to keep executing with continuity and momentum,” it added. "}],[{"start":103.58999999999999,"text":"The management changes come after the company closed a $122bn funding round this week. "}],[{"start":110.92999999999999,"text":"In preparation to go public, OpenAI has signalled its intent to focus on primary business lines, as it placed plans for an erotic chatbot on hold indefinitely and planned to shutter its Sora video-generation model and social media app. "}],[{"start":126.91999999999999,"text":"However, on Thursday said it struck a deal to acquire TBPN, a talk show popular in Silicon Valley, in its first move into broadcasting."}],[{"start":138.41,"text":"The start-up has been forced to rationalise its business amid a crunch in data centre capacity to train the AI models which underpin its products. It has also faced renewed pressure from competitors including Anthropic and Google. "}],[{"start":154.55,"text":"Simo, who previously led grocery app Instacart, joined OpenAI last year to lead its product strategy and spearheaded efforts to drop so-called “side quests” in favour of devoting resources to productivity tools. She has worked on the group’s efforts to bring together products such as its Codex coding assistant and ChatGPT into one “super app”. "}],[{"start":180.83,"text":"The former Instacart chief told employees that she had postponed medical tests for some time and it was “now clear that I’ve pushed a little too far”. "}],[{"start":191.62,"text":"Simo suffers from postural orthostatic tachycardia syndrome, a condition that makes her prone to fainting, which has forced her to work from home since joining the start-up. "}],[{"start":202.85,"text":"Greg Brockman, OpenAI’s president, will oversee product in Simo’s absence while Dresser, along with finance and strategy chiefs Sarah Friar and Jason Kwon, will take responsibility for day-to-day business operations. "}],[{"start":218.63,"text":"Bloomberg first reported the management changes. "}],[{"start":230.14999999999998,"text":""}]],"url":"https://audio.ftcn.net.cn/album/a_1775272013_4009.mp3"}