激起IPO猜測!OpenAI任命首位CFO
官宣與蘋果合作前夕,OpenAI任命了首位CFO,引發市場關於其可能IPO的猜測。
當地時間週一,OpenAI官宣,已聘請社交媒體公司Nextdoor的前首席執行官Sarah Friar擔任首任首席財務官(CFO)。

資料顯示,Sarah Friar是一位資深的硅谷人士,之前曾擔任全美最大支付平台之一Square的首席財務官,也是沃爾瑪董事會成員,還曾在高盛 、麥肯錫和雲計算服務巨頭賽富時工作過。她曾在高盛工作了10年,擔任軟件行業的科技分析師。
OpenAI還任命曾在Twitter、Facebook和Instagram工作過的Kevin Weil擔任首席產品官。
在聲明中,OpenAI CEO Sam Altman表示:“Sarah 和 Kevin有着豐富的經驗,這將使OpenAI能夠擴大我們的業務,為下一階段的增長制定戰略,並確保我們的團隊擁有繼續蓬勃發展所需的資源。”

據悉,任職後,Friar將領導一個財務團隊,幫助OpenAI在發展全球業務的同時繼續投資AI研究。
Weil將領導一個產品團隊,致力於用OpenAI的研究工作來服務消費者和企業客户。
盈利能力逐漸顯現
此前,OpenAI發展快速,不斷推出ChatGPT、Sora、GPT-4o等頗具顛覆意義的產品,但兩年來該公司的CFO職位一直處於空缺狀態,財務職能一直由首席運營官Brad Lightcap負責監管。
一般來説,如果一家公司設立CFO,會市場被視為即將IPO的先兆。儘管對於此次人事變動的是否是為IPO做準備,OpenAI未直接回應,但其盈利能力正在逐漸顯現。
在昨晚的2024 WWDC上,蘋果官宣了與OpenAI的合作。
蘋果表示,將在未來版本的iPhone、Mac和iPad軟件中集成OpenAI的ChatGPT大型語言模型。
這可能為OpenAI帶來重大的營業收入機會。

另有OpenAI的一位發言人表示,OpenAI已經發展到必須設立專門財務主管的規模。
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