Sarah
Friar
has
been
named
OpenAI
CFO
Anjali
Sundaram
|
CNBC
OpenAI
on
Monday
hired
two
top
executives
and
announced
a
partnership
with
Apple
that
includes
a
ChatGPT-Siri
integration,
the
company
announced
in
two
blog
posts.
The
company
said
Sarah
Friar,
previously
CEO
of
Nextdoor
and
finance
chief
at
Square,
is
joining
as
chief
financial
officer.
Friar
co-chairs
the
Stanford
Digital
Economy
Lab.
“She
will
lead
a
finance
team
that
supports
our
mission
by
providing
continued
investment
in
our
core
research
capabilities,
and
ensuring
that
we
can
scale
to
meet
the
needs
of
our
growing
customer
base
and
the
complex
and
global
environment
in
which
we
are
operating,”
OpenAI
wrote
in
a
blog
post.
OpenAI
also
hired
Kevin
Weil,
an
ex-president
at
Planet
Labs,
as
its
new
chief
product
officer,
according
to
the
blog
post.
Weill
was
previously
a
senior
vice
president
at
Twitter
and
a
vice
president
at
Facebook
and
Instagram.
Weil’s
product
team
will
be
focused
on
“applying
our
research
to
products
and
services
that
benefit
consumers,
developers,
and
businesses,”
the
company
wrote.
OpenAI
is
bolstering
its
C-suite
as
its
large
language
models
gain
importance
across
the
tech
sector
and
as
competition
rapidly
emerges
in
the
burgeoning
generative
artificial
intelligence
market.
While
the
company
has
been
in
hyper-growth
mode
since
late
2022,
when
it
launched
ChatGPT,
OpenAI
has
also
been
riddled
with
controversy
and
has
seen
many
employees
hit
the
exits
of
late.
In
May,
a
group
of
current
and
former
OpenAI
employees
published
an open
letter describing
concerns
about
the
AI
industry’s
rapid
advancement
despite
a
lack
of
oversight
and
an
absence
of
whistleblower
protections
for
people
who
wish
to
speak
up.
“AI
companies
have
strong
financial
incentives
to
avoid
effective
oversight,
and
we
do
not
believe
bespoke
structures
of
corporate
governance
are
sufficient
to
change
this,”
they
wrote.
OpenAI
on
Monday
also
announced
a
new
partnership
between
the
company
and
Apple
that
will
see
the
integration
of
ChatGPT
into
iOS,
iPadOS
and
macOS
in
updates
later
this
year.
OpenAI
said
in
a
separate
blog
post
that
the
integration
allows
users
to
access
ChatGPT
capabilities,
such
as
image
and
document
understanding,
as
well
as
text
generation
and
image
creation
within
Apple’s
Writing
Tools
feature.
“Siri
can
also
tap
into
ChatGPT’s
intelligence
when
helpful,”
OpenAI
wrote.
“Apple
users
are
asked
before
any
questions
are
sent
to
ChatGPT,
along
with
any
documents
or
photos,
and
Siri
then
presents
the
answer
directly.”
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