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Barret Zoph posted on X on 26 September 2024 (UTC) a note to OpenAI saying that he had decided to leave the company. Copy claim link
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Date 2024-09-26 · event Role Research VP (as reported; not stated in the retrieved post text) Scope and limits A first-person announcement. The title rests on TechCrunch’s reporting of Sam Altman’s post. The retrieved text of the note is truncated.
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Post of 26 September 2024 (UTC) sharing his note on leaving OpenAI ↗ X · 2024-09-26
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Paraphrase Zoph writes in a note to OpenAI that he has decided to leave the company.
Location in source Post text, note to OpenAI, first sentence
How it was read Post text read through X’s syndication endpoint, which can truncate long notes
Machine-checked · 2026-10-15
Source details and check notes Authors Barret Zoph Version Dated post, retrieved on 2026-10-15 (SHA-256 b13d334b7bcbff9083dd5e3c7d5e9d44c96ac2651fd00eae7562af5f3069d091) through X’s own syndication endpoint for the post’s text, which truncates long notes. Read through X’s syndication endpoint (text only; the note is truncated in that text). Publication date is the post’s UTC timestamp (25 September in US Pacific time). Canonical address Open the canonical source ↗ Accessed 2026-10-15 Language English (en) Attribution Barret Zoph, “Post of 26 September 2024 (UTC) sharing his note on leaving OpenAI”, 2024-09-26. Reuse No open redistribution licence asserted. Bibliographic metadata, editorial paraphrases and short attributed quotations (at most 50 words each). Recheck terms before wider redistribution. Check notes Candidate pack passage, lab genealogy (research/lab-genealogy). The paraphrase’s verbatim anchor “to leave OpenAI” matched the retrieved text on 2026-10-15 and again in a fresh retrieval the same day. Read through X’s own syndication endpoint for the post’s text, which truncates long notes. Matching ignored differences of whitespace, case, quotation marks, apostrophes, dashes and Unicode compatibility forms, so the source’s typography can differ. The paraphrase is Selekoa’s; only the anchor is the source’s wording. No human editorial review. secondary source Supports the claim
OpenAI’s chief research officer has left following CTO Mira Murati’s exit ↗ TechCrunch · 2024-09-25
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Source excerpt “OpenAI’s chief research officer, Bob McGrew, and a research VP, Barret Zoph, left the company on Wednesday” Location in source Opening paragraph
How it was read Retrieved directly from the publisher
Machine-checked · 2026-10-15
Source details and check notes Authors Kyle Wiggers Version Dated page, retrieved on 2026-10-15 (SHA-256 55f6630b17d7f073216fecc85a4fc17bd1c93a094433fa6983bd3dac2f0c5f3d) directly from the publisher. Reporting used because Altman’s and McGrew’s notes were posted on X as long-form or image posts whose full text could not be retrieved. Canonical address Open the canonical source ↗ Accessed 2026-10-15 Language English (en) Attribution Kyle Wiggers, “OpenAI’s chief research officer has left following CTO Mira Murati’s exit”, 2024-09-25. Reuse No open redistribution licence asserted. Bibliographic metadata, editorial paraphrases and short attributed quotations (at most 50 words each). Recheck terms before wider redistribution. Check notes Candidate pack passage, lab genealogy (research/lab-genealogy). The quotation (17 words) matched the retrieved text on 2026-10-15 and again in a fresh retrieval the same day. Read directly from the publisher. Matching ignored differences of whitespace, case, quotation marks, apostrophes, dashes and Unicode compatibility forms, so the source’s typography can differ. No human editorial review. Status and meaning Editorial status. Not reviewed by an editor . An exploratory record that no editor has accepted. This status does not say whether a person has read any linked passage. Each evidence record above shows how it was checked.
Relation. A source announced this person’s departure from a specified role. The event date is the announcement, not an inferred final working day or end of every association.
Date. UTC date of the post (25 September in US Pacific time).
Record ID lg-oai-zoph-departure-2024