Ex-OpenAI employee leaves to build Supergroup, a super-powered group chat app
josh_wills · x · 2026-11-07
An OpenAI employee left in August to build Supergroup, a 'super-powered group chat' app for friends, citing a desire to return to playful, personal software.
Her farewell post argues the industry is 'losing the plot' — pontificating about the end of humanity, drenching the internet in slop, and asking agents to make agents — while billions of normal people use AI daily with few products built for them. A small but telling example of frontier-lab talent flowing out to consumer AI apps.
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