Scott Gray leaves OpenAI. He joined the company in 2016 and helped build the GPU infrastructure behind its earliest breakthroughs, from sparse transformers and scaling laws to GPT-3.

His exit comes as at least 12 senior leaders have already left OpenAI in 2026.

OpenAI's 2026 departures so far:

• Scott Gray - longtime GPU systems engineer • Denise Dresser - Chief Revenue Officer • Brad Lightcap - former COO • Fidji Simo - CEO of Applications • Kevin Weil - Head of OpenAI for Science • Bill Peebles - Head of Sora • Srinivas Narayanan - CTO of B2B Applications • Kate Rouch - Chief Marketing Officer • Barret Zoph - Enterprise Sales lead • Johannes Heidecke - Head of Safety Systems • Joshua Achiam - Chief Futurist • Chloé Bakalar - Head of Ethics • Caitlin Kalinowski - Head of Hardware and Robotics

Something is happening at OpenAI.