OpenAI Hires XAI’s Former Finance Chief

OpenAI has simply employed the previous finance chief at xAI as a senior finance government.Mike Liberatore begins his new position at OpenAI on Tuesday, an OpenAI spokesperson advised CNBC. Liberatore added the brand new job to his LinkedIn profile, too.He’ll report back to OpenAI’s chief monetary officer, Sarah Friar, and work with Greg Brockman’s workforce, which oversees the contracts and capital behind the corporate’s compute technique, CNBC stated.OpenAI and xAI didn’t reply to requests for remark from Enterprise Insider.Liberatore’s arrival at OpenAI comes weeks after he left xAI in July, following a three-month stint as CFO.His exit is a part of a string of high-level departures at xAI. Igor Babuschkin, who based xAI alongside Elon Musk in 2023, left the synthetic intelligence startup final month.The corporate additionally laid off at the very least 500 staff on its knowledge annotation workforce on Friday evening, Enterprise Insider reported. Not less than 9 high-level workers seem to now not be with the workforce as their Slack accounts had been deactivated final week, in keeping with screenshots seen by Enterprise Insider.Liberatore spent practically 9 years at Airbnb and held senior finance roles at SquareTrade, eBay, and PayPal, in keeping with his LinkedIn profile.The rent comes because the rivalry between Sam Altman and Elon Musk heats up.Musk final month threatened to sue Apple, alleging App Retailer favoritism towards OpenAI. Altman shot again by pointing to Musk’s management of X.A federal decide in Oakland, California, has set a March 2026 trial date for the primary of what could also be a number of trials in Musk’s civil racketeering lawsuit in opposition to Altman, Brockman, OpenAI, and Microsoft.Years in the past, the 2 cofounded OpenAI, which Altman now leads. Musk departed OpenAI in 2018 and began xAI.