# OpenAI is losing two of the architects of its most ambitious moonshots.

*genai · news · 2026-04-17 · TechCrunch*

## Key points

- Kevin Weil and Bill Peebles, key leaders of OpenAI's moonshots, have announced their departures.
- OpenAI is shutting down Sora, its AI video tool, due to $1 million daily compute losses.
- OpenAI for Science is being dissolved and its work, including Prism, is absorbed by other teams.
- Weil's team just released GPT-Rosalind, a new model focused on life sciences and drug discovery.

**Companies:** OpenAI

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