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Fidji Simo steps down from leading OpenAI’s AGI work due to illness

OpenAI's Fidji Simo is departing her full-time role as the company's AGI chief and is transitioning to being a "part-time advisor," she said on X.

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Fidji Simo, the leader of OpenAI's work on artificial general intelligence (AGI), has stepped down from her full-time role due to illness. Simo's departure follows her initial announcement in April that she would take a few weeks of medical leave due to a neuroimmune condition.

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