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Former OpenAI Sora researcher Gabriel Petersson resigns to launch an independent venture

Petersson previously led an internal development team at OpenAI.

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gabriel@gabriel1#712inAI

i have resigned from openai

i left sora early this year to start a team at openai to build something great. but i've always been a founder, and there is one last product i need to build before AGI

already miss all my friends and Colleague(s), i believe in you! more soon

12:05 PM · Jun 7, 2026 · 714.6K Views
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Andrew Curran@AndrewCurran_

This one is pretty significant.

gabriel@gabriel1

i have resigned from openai

i left sora early this year to start a team at openai to build something great. but i've always been a founder, and there is one last product i need to build before AGI

already miss all my friends and Colleague(s), i believe in you! more soon

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gabriel@gabriel1

FOUNDER MODE 😈😈😈😈😈

gabriel@gabriel1

i have resigned from openai

i left sora early this year to start a team at openai to build something great. but i've always been a founder, and there is one last product i need to build before AGI

already miss all my friends and Colleague(s), i believe in you! more soon

12hViews 45.3KLikes 906Bookmarks 21
Lisan al Gaib@scaling01

@AndrewCurran_ naaah. expected nothingburger imo

he was just the sora hype guy

Andrew Curran@AndrewCurran_

This one is pretty significant.

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Teknium 🪽@Teknium

@gabriel1 @kylecompute Hit me up when you make that so i can integrate it into Hermes Agent fren

gabriel@gabriel1

i have resigned from openai

i left sora early this year to start a team at openai to build something great. but i've always been a founder, and there is one last product i need to build before AGI

already miss all my friends and Colleague(s), i believe in you! more soon

8hViews 3.8KLikes 126Bookmarks 1
Minh Nhat Nguyen@menhguin

@gabriel1 VC thirst trap is crazy, bro

gabriel@gabriel1

i have resigned from openai

i left sora early this year to start a team at openai to build something great. but i've always been a founder, and there is one last product i need to build before AGI

already miss all my friends and Colleague(s), i believe in you! more soon

10hViews 10.3KLikes 106Bookmarks 2
Beff (e/acc)@beffjezos

@gabriel1 Woah. Big move.

Eager to see what you build next man!

gabriel@gabriel1

i have resigned from openai

i left sora early this year to start a team at openai to build something great. but i've always been a founder, and there is one last product i need to build before AGI

already miss all my friends and Colleague(s), i believe in you! more soon

12hViews 5.8KLikes 80Bookmarks 1
jason@jxnlco

@gabriel1 Vcs in your DMs be like.

gabriel@gabriel1

i have resigned from openai

i left sora early this year to start a team at openai to build something great. but i've always been a founder, and there is one last product i need to build before AGI

already miss all my friends and Colleague(s), i believe in you! more soon

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Michael Chang@mmmbchang

@gabriel1 It's been a blast being desk neighbors with you for the past year and a half Gabe! I've learned so much from you. Excited about what you do next!

gabriel@gabriel1

i have resigned from openai

i left sora early this year to start a team at openai to build something great. but i've always been a founder, and there is one last product i need to build before AGI

already miss all my friends and Colleague(s), i believe in you! more soon

12hViews 12.3KLikes 29Bookmarks 2
gabriel@gabriel1

@menhguin 🤣🤣🤣

Minh Nhat Nguyen@menhguin

@gabriel1 VC thirst trap is crazy, bro

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sarah guo@saranormous

@gabriel1 👀

gabriel@gabriel1

i have resigned from openai

i left sora early this year to start a team at openai to build something great. but i've always been a founder, and there is one last product i need to build before AGI

already miss all my friends and Colleague(s), i believe in you! more soon

12hViews 3.6KLikes 25Bookmarks 1
Andrew Curran@AndrewCurran_

@gabriel1 Good fortune to whatever you work on next,

gabriel@gabriel1

i have resigned from openai

i left sora early this year to start a team at openai to build something great. but i've always been a founder, and there is one last product i need to build before AGI

already miss all my friends and Colleague(s), i believe in you! more soon

10hViews 2.3KLikes 26Bookmarks 0
Florian Brand@xeophon

@gabriel1 Congrats man! Can't wait to see what you'll build!!

gabriel@gabriel1

i have resigned from openai

i left sora early this year to start a team at openai to build something great. but i've always been a founder, and there is one last product i need to build before AGI

already miss all my friends and Colleague(s), i believe in you! more soon

12hViews 2.2KLikes 19Bookmarks 0
Vincent Weisser@vincentweisser

@gabriel1 Excited for what you'll cook next Gabriel!!

gabriel@gabriel1

i have resigned from openai

i left sora early this year to start a team at openai to build something great. but i've always been a founder, and there is one last product i need to build before AGI

already miss all my friends and Colleague(s), i believe in you! more soon

12hViews 2.3KLikes 18Bookmarks 0
bone@boneGPT

@gabriel1 My dawg set for life now. Confident you'll continue on to great things.

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gabriel@gabriel1

@mmmbchang will miss working together!

Michael Chang@mmmbchang

@gabriel1 It's been a blast being desk neighbors with you for the past year and a half Gabe! I've learned so much from you. Excited about what you do next!

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Yuchen Jin@Yuchenj_UW

@gabriel1 👀👀

gabriel@gabriel1

i have resigned from openai

i left sora early this year to start a team at openai to build something great. but i've always been a founder, and there is one last product i need to build before AGI

already miss all my friends and Colleague(s), i believe in you! more soon

11hViews 2.5KLikes 12Bookmarks 0
Caitlin Kalinowski@kalinowski007

@gabriel1 Wow! Congrats and good luck.

gabriel@gabriel1

i have resigned from openai

i left sora early this year to start a team at openai to build something great. but i've always been a founder, and there is one last product i need to build before AGI

already miss all my friends and Colleague(s), i believe in you! more soon

9hViews 1.3KLikes 3Bookmarks 1
amit @ CVPR@gravicle

@gabriel1 congrats! looking forward to see what you build

gabriel@gabriel1

i have resigned from openai

i left sora early this year to start a team at openai to build something great. but i've always been a founder, and there is one last product i need to build before AGI

already miss all my friends and Colleague(s), i believe in you! more soon

8hViews 1KLikes 2Bookmarks 1
samsja@samsja19

@gabriel1 Congrats, good luck on your next journey

gabriel@gabriel1

i have resigned from openai

i left sora early this year to start a team at openai to build something great. but i've always been a founder, and there is one last product i need to build before AGI

already miss all my friends and Colleague(s), i believe in you! more soon

12hViews 916Likes 9Bookmarks 0
senescence@lilyofashwood

@wackaid @gabriel1 here's pliny describing how he makes AI make child stuff. when he got banned, he just tagged gabe, and he unbanned him

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