India, April 20 -- OpenAI's chief technology officer (CTO) of B2B applications, Srinivas Narayanan, has announced his departure from the company. He said he will be leaving the Sam Altman-led company at the end of the week, bringing to a close a three-year stint during one of its highest-growth phases.

In posts shared on X and LinkedIn, the Indian-origin executive said the last three years at OpenAI had been "an incredible journey that felt more like ten". 

"With the recent and upcoming product launches, this felt like the right time to step back," he wrote. 

Narayanan said OpenAI built and shipped some of the fastest-growing products in history, including ChatGPT and its API platform, without any established playbook to foll...