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OPENAI HIRES INSTACART CEO AS HEAD OF APPLICATIONS

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Instacart CEO Fidji Simo is joining OpenAI to lead its applications business. Simo has served as an OpenAI board member over the last year. She will remain CEO of Instacart for the next few months. Simo will focus on enabling OpenAI's traditional company functions to scale as it enters its next phase of growth, which will allow CEO Sam Altman to increase his focus on research, compute, and safety, which are critical as the company approaches superintelligence.