"Zoph returned to OpenAI last week after leaving Thinking Machine Labs, former OpenAI co-founder Mira Murati's AI startup where Zoph had served as a co-founder and chief technology officer since October 2024. The exact circumstances of his departure aren't clear, with rumors swirling about whether Zoph and a few other former OpenAI employees were fired or left on their own accord, possibly with plans to return to OpenAI all along."
"Zoph was previously the vice president of post-training inference at OpenAI from September 2022 to October 2024. He's stepping into a very different position and will likely play an important role at the company as it looks to grow its enterprise business - an area where it is losing ground to competitors. OpenAI launched its enterprise-focused ChatGPT Enterprise product in 2023 more than a year before Anthropic, and multiple years before Google, launched their enterprise offerings."
"But its market share is falling while its rivals are climbing. Anthropic holds a dominant lead over its AI rivals when it comes to enterprise large language model usage. The AI research lab holds a 40% market share, according to a December report from VC firm Menlo Ventures (which, it should be noted, has invested aggressively in Anthropic). In July, the startup's market share was estimated to be 32%."
OpenAI reorganized leadership and appointed Barret Zoph to lead efforts to sell AI to enterprise customers. Zoph returned after leaving Thinking Machine Labs, where he had been a co-founder and chief technology officer since October 2024; the circumstances of his departure remain unclear. Zoph previously served as vice president of post-training inference at OpenAI from September 2022 to October 2024. OpenAI aims to grow its enterprise business after launching ChatGPT Enterprise in 2023, which the company says has over 5 million business users including SoftBank, Target and Loewe's. Anthropic and Google are increasing enterprise adoption, with Anthropic holding a reported 40% market share.
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