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Big Tech’s Insane Hidden AI Spending, Ranking Anthropic vs. OpenAI, AI For Travel Debate Aug 24, 2026 · 3 mentions

  • ▶ 45:53 Alex Kantrowitz Her departure followed a string of other exits, including former chief operating officer, Brad Lightcap, and Fiji Simo, once seen as the heir apparent to chief executive, Sam Altman. 3 times in the scene

Jensen On The Ropes, Sam Altman’s Conflicts, Allbirds’ GPU Pivot Apr 20, 2026 · 3 mentions

  • ▶ 44:31 Ranjan Roy Like he's, uh, I mean, that's kind of like operator that OpenAI still lacks, and Fiji Simo was supposed to come in and be that operator. 3 times in the scene

More OpenAI C-Suite Drama, Is Siri Seriously Broken?, Meta’s Elusive Next Hit Apr 10, 2026 · 9 mentions

  • ▶ 11:25 Alex Kantrowitz Fryer stopped reporting directly to Altman in August last year, and instead began reporting to Fiji Simo, who had joined as head of OpenAI's applications business 5 times in the scene
  • ▶ 18:41 Alex Kantrowitz Good thing they have that second CEO, Fiji Simo. 4 times in the scene

OpenAI's TBPN Mistake, SpaceX’s $2 Trillion IPO?, Iran Disables Amazon Infrastructure Apr 6, 2026 · 11 mentions

OpenAI’s Superapp Is Coming, Jensen on Jobs, Bezos’s $100 Billion Automation Fund Mar 23, 2026 · 9 mentions

  • ▶ 1:52 Alex Kantrowitz BG Simo, OpenAI's CEO of Applications, previewed the changes to employees in an all-hands meeting, telling them that the top leaders, including CEO Sam Altman and Chief Research Officer Mark Chen, were actively looking at which areas to… 5 times in the scene
  • ▶ 15:43 Alex Kantrowitz And Fiji Simo, the chief of applications, will lead the company's sales team as it markets the new product. 4 times in the scene

Is AI Killing Software? — With Bret Taylor, OpenAI's board chair and CEO of Sierra Jan 28, 2026 · 1 mention

  • ▶ 43:26 Bret Taylor Uh, so if you look at OpenAI's business model, um, kind of three pillars, uh, the first is ChatGPT, uh, monetize through subscriptions today, and this is where, uh, Fiji announced sort of the ads principles where, where the plans are to…

OpenAI’s $50 Billion Fundraise, AI Advertising Game Theory, Apple’s AI Wearable Pin Jan 26, 2026 · 1 mention

  • ▶ 25:15 Ranjan Roy I think they recognize it, even like, you know, Fiji Simo had said, like, people trust ChatGPT for many important and personal tasks.

Is Google's Gemini Winning?, Thinking Machines Drama, Claude Cowork’s Potential Jan 19, 2026 · 5 mentions

  • ▶ 10:30 Ranjan Roy Fiji Simo over at OpenAI or the masters, the old timers, Google, and they figure out how to actually charge people to show up in LLM search. 2 times in the scene
  • ▶ 29:56 Alex Kantrowitz On Wednesday, OpenAI's CEO of Applications, Fiji Simo, announced the company had rehired Barrett Zoff and Luke Metz, co-founders of Mira Mirati's AI Lab, Thinking Machines Lab. 3 times in the scene

OpenAI’s 2026 Priority, Disney’s AI Play, Datacenter Buildout Trouble Dec 17, 2025 · 4 mentions

  • ▶ 18:12 Alex Kantrowitz So I actually asked, uh, Fiji Simo, we had a press call with her about this new model. 4 times in the scene

Google Pushes OpenAI, Bezos Returns, AI’s No. 1 Hit Nov 24, 2025 · 2 mentions

  • ▶ 29:10 Ranjan Roy But when our, when Fiji Simo launches that OpenAI ads product, and we get our morning OpenAI pulse, and it's just full of ads, then maybe there's gonna be some competition. 2 times in the scene

Can We Trust Silicon Valley With Superintelligence? — With Nick Clegg Nov 19, 2025 · 1 mention

OpenAI and Microsoft’s Grand Bargain, Sam Altman’s Next Three Years, A New Humanoid Robot Nov 3, 2025 · 1 mention

  • ▶ 33:56 Ranjan Roy The, I mean, and we, we, we've talked about this since the moment Fiji SEMA was hired, um, when the moment Pulse came out, certainly when Sora came out, like, they're just laying this groundwork and infrastructure for just lots of ads, and…

Anthropic Chief Product Officer: Why AI Model Development Is Accelerating Oct 8, 2025 · 1 mention

OpenAI and AMD's Megadeal, Sam Altman and Jony Ive’s Bumpy Start. Meta vs. Apple Oct 6, 2025 · 1 mention

  • ▶ 32:03 M.G. Siegler And now famously, they brought in another CEO to help, uh, to help deal with all that in, in Fiji Simu Simu.

OpenAI’s & NVIDIA's $100 Billion Marriage, Meta’s Sloppy Vibes, TikTok Deal Arrives? Sep 29, 2025 · 2 mentions

  • ▶ 8:08 Ranjan Roy It was interesting, too, is the, I was, I think it was Fiji Simo, I was listening to a CNBC interview where, uh, someone from OpenAI was talking about how, like, you know, whatever the demand is right now, it's gonna triple, quintuple…
  • ▶ 42:43 Alex Kantrowitz And to me, that is the direction that they are going to try to head in the business front, especially because Fiji Simo is running these products and she came from Facebook.

OpenAI's Jony Ive Moment, Anthropic's Big New Model, Google In AI Mode May 27, 2025 · 1 mention

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