News of former Pebble CEO and co-founder Gabor Cselle joining OpenAI has attracted widespread attention and will be involved in a mysterious project that has not yet been revealed. This move not only reflects the continued heated competition for talent in the AI field, but also indicates that OpenAI may soon launch anticipated new products or technologies. Cselle's career is full of legendary colors. He has founded and successfully sold several companies, with rich technical and management experience, and his participation in OpenAI will undoubtedly inject new vitality into it.
Former Pebble CEO and co-founder Gabor Cselle recently announced that he would join OpenAI for a mysterious project that has not yet been revealed. The news was confirmed through its official release on X platform (formerly Twitter). According to LinkedIn, Cselle officially joined OpenAI in October this year. "I'm currently learning a lot of new knowledge and I'll share more details about my work projects later," he said on the social platform.
As a serial entrepreneur, Cselle's career is legendary. His first company was reMail, a mobile email startup supported by Y Combinator, which was eventually acquired by Google. Namo Media, the native advertising company he founded, was acquired by Twitter, the acquisition happened before Elon Musk took over and changed it to X. It is worth mentioning that Cselle previously served as the product group manager on Twitter, mainly responsible for core functions such as homepage timeline, user guidance and unlogged-in user experience. After leaving Twitter in 2016, he joined Google as the head of the company's incubator Area120. In 2022, Cselle co-founded Pebble (originally named T2) with Michael Greer, former director of engineering at Discord. Although this Weibo platform, which emphasizes security and content review, has developed a small but very active user community and has received angel investments including Android co-founder Rich Miner, it ultimately failed to achieve sustained growth. . Pebble closed last October and then transformed into a Mastodon instance in November. In May this year, Cselle joined the accelerator South Park Commons, during which it developed several generative AI prototypes, including a project to pay tribute to the once-popular HQ Trivia. Meanwhile, OpenAI's rival Anthropic has also welcomed a heavyweight: Embark founder Alex Rodrigues. Rodrigues once led the self-driving truck company Embark to go public through SPAC in 2021, which was later acquired by Applied Intuition in 2023. He announced last Friday that he would join Anthropic as an AI security researcher. The career shifts of these executives reflect the ongoing competition for talent in the AI field and also herald more innovative projects are expected to be launched.
The addition of Cselle and the flow of talents in other AI fields indicate that AI technology will usher in faster development and breakthroughs in the future. Let us wait and see what kind of miracles he will create in OpenAI.