OpenAI to cut back on side projects to focus on core business: Report

ChatGPT-maker ‌OpenAI’s top executives are ​finalising plans ⁠for a major strategy shift to refocus ‌the company around coding ‌and business ‌users, ⁠the Wall Street ⁠Journal reported on Monday.

Fidji Simo, chief of ​applications at ‌OpenAI, previewed the changes to employees in an all-hands ‌meeting, telling ​them that leaders including CEO Sam ⁠Altman and chief research officer ‌Mark Chen were actively looking at which areas to deprioritise, the Journal said, ‌adding that they expect ​to notify staff about the changes ⁠in the coming ⁠weeks.

OpenAI declined to comment.