OpenAI Appoints Mike Liberatore as Business Finance Officer
OpenAI has named Mike Liberatore, former finance head at Elon Musk's xAI, as the AI startup's finance officer, responsible for overseeing its AI infrastructure.
Liberatore, who left xAI in July after just three months in his position, will report to CFO Sarah Friar and work with Greg Brockman's team, which is tasked with enhancing OpenAI's access to computational resources.
Liberatore, a former executive at Airbnb, took part in xAI's $5 billion debt fundraising in June and an additional $5 billion strategic equity investment.
His appointment comes amid a rivalry between Musk's company and OpenAI, alongside a fierce battle among tech companies for AI talent.
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Musk, one of the co-founders of OpenAI, initiated legal action against the organization and its CEO, Sam Altman, last year for allegedly deviating from its original mission of helping humanity. In April, OpenAI submitted a countersuit against Musk for intimidation.
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OpenAI has launched GPT 5 Codex, an updated version of its AI designed specifically for software creation. The model aims to aid developers in coding, debugging, and reviewing more efficiently, engaging with humans interactively and managing intricate tasks independently.
OpenAI claims that GPT 5 Codex can handle a range of programing assignments, such as creating projects from scratch, improving functionalities, fixing errors, and analyzing code written by others.
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It can independently work on long tasks for hours, improving and testing its code until it performs accurately. For simple, minor tasks, it responds quickly without wasting extra resources.
The technology leader claims that GPT 5 Codex is available via the Codex command-line interface, the IDE add-on, the cloud platform, GitHub, and the ChatGPT iOS application. Developers can switch between these environments without losing context, enhancing collaboration and project management.