Gabor Cselle, a former Twitter executive and founder of Pebble, joined OpenAI to participate in a mysterious project, which has attracted widespread attention from the industry. Cselle announced the news on LinkedIn and X platforms, and said it would share more details in due course. This move not only highlights OpenAI's attractiveness to talents, but also implies a major strategic adjustment to the company's future development direction. Cselle's rich entrepreneurial experience and deep accumulation in the field of social media will undoubtedly bring new vitality and perspective to OpenAI. This article will dive into Cselle's career and the possible impact of his participation in OpenAI.
Gabor Cselle, former CEO and co-founder of Pebble, recently joined OpenAI and worked on a secret project. According to his LinkedIn profile, Cselle has been working at OpenAI since October and announced the news on X (formerly Twitter), saying that he would share more details about his work in due time, saying, "I have learned a lot." thing".
Cselle is an experienced entrepreneur whose first company, reMail, a mobile email startup based on Y Combinator, was acquired by Google. Later, Namo Media, a native advertising startup he founded, was acquired by Twitter, which was renamed X after the acquisition of Elon Musk.
Prior to joining OpenAI, Cselle worked as group product manager on Twitter, responsible for homepage timeline and user experience, and left Twitter in 2016 before serving as director of the Area120 Incubator spin-off project at Google. In 2022, he worked with former Discord engineering director Michael Greer to develop Pebble (originally named T2), a social platform that focuses on security and moderation. Although it has created a small community with high participation, it ultimately failed to achieve it. Continuous growth, Pebble closed last October and re-launched in November with a Mastodon instance.
Meanwhile, OpenAI's competitor Anthropic has also welcomed new employees. Alex Rodrigues, founder of self-driving truck company Embark, brought the company to market in 2021 through a SPAC merger, and then sold it to Applied Intuition at a low price in 2023. He recently announced that he would join Anthropic as an AI security researcher.
Cselle's joining OpenAI and Rodrigues' joining Anthropic reflects the fierce competition for talents in the field of artificial intelligence, and also indicates that AI technology will develop and apply more rapidly in the future. The joining of these two industry elites will further promote the development and innovation of artificial intelligence technology, and it is worth our continued attention to its follow-up updates.