BREAKING NEWS: OpenAI’s Technical Lead for Compute has returned to OpenAI after joining Meta in April 2026. What is goin…

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OpenAI's Technical Lead for Compute has returned to OpenAI after a brief two-month stint at Meta that began in April 2026, with SemiAnalysis speculating the departure may have involved a demotion to a data-labeling role.

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OpenAI's Technical Lead for Compute left for Meta in April 2026 and has already returned to OpenAI.
The rapid departure from Meta — after only a couple of months — suggests significant organizational problems at Meta.
SemiAnalysis speculates that the individual may have been reorged into a data-labeling role at Meta, which could explain the early exit.

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BREAKING NEWS: OpenAI's Technical Lead for Compute has returned to OpenAI after joining Meta in April 2026. What is going on at Meta that people are quitting after only a couple of months?

Did Anuj get reorged into a data-labeling role at Meta, and is that why he left?