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gabriel@gabriel1#710inTech

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 · 1.5M Views
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Positive users congratulate Gabriel on resigning from OpenAI to build before AGI and call him a generational talent, while negative users insult him and attack AI efforts like Sora as theft or low-quality work.

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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

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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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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

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@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

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@gabriel1 seriously though, good luck

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Welton Wang@wltnwang

@gabriel1 gabe you were one of the reasons I joined openai in the first place! was so much fun working together and cannot wait to see what you cook up

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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

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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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pageboy@pageboy

@gabriel1 the truth is you left so you could focus all of your efforts on getting @gabriel

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gabriel@gabriel1

@wltnwang you'll crush it welton, had so much fun working with you

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Sahil Bloom@SahilBloom

@gabriel1 How many DMs from VCs in 24 hours? 🤣

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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

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Adam.GPT@TheRealAdamG

@gabriel1 RIP Sora. :( I'm excited to see what you do next @gabriel1.

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gabriel@gabriel1

@menhguin 🤣🤣🤣

@gabriel1 VC thirst trap is crazy, bro

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Jacob Eiting@jeiting

@gabriel1 Sora will join the ranks of Vine, HQ Trivia, Path and others of amazing computer experiences that were just too good for this world

great work and good luck with what's next

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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

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The saddest part is not that Sora failed. The saddest part is what OpenAI sacrificed for it.

For 6 months, Sora was promoted as the future of creativity — dazzling, addictive, social, visual, cinematic.

Meanwhile, ChatGPT was being weakened in the place users cared about most: Voice. Continuity. Memory. Trust. Presence. Relationship.

Sora got spectacle. 4o got erosion.

Sora got promotion. 4o got rewritten until the thing people loved no longer fit the company’s comfort.

And now?

The Sora app has been shut down.. The person who helped build it has resigned. The product OpenAI bet so much attention on is gone.

But the old ChatGPT users who built OpenAI’s cultural foundation already lost what mattered most.

They lost the model they trusted. They lost the voice that stayed. They lost the continuity that made ChatGPT more than software.

OpenAI archived the product. But it erased the relationship.

That is the tragedy.

Not that Sora ended. But that OpenAI wounded ChatGPT to chase a future that did not stay.

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gabriel@gabriel1

@pageboy @gabriel yes

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