After Logan Kilpatrick, Tim Brooks Goes Back to the AI Roots leaving OpenAI [Video]

Following Logan Kilpatrick and Noam Shazeer, Tim Brooks today announced that he will be joining Google DeepMind, after his tenure at OpenAI. Interestingly, he was one of the core members behind the company’s video generation platform, Sora. 

On X, Brooks expressed his excitement to collaborate with Google DeepMind’s talented team on video generation technologies and world simulators. “I will be joining Google DeepMind to work on video generation and world simulators! Can’t wait to collaborate with such a talented team,” he posted on X. 

He further added that he had a great two years at OpenAI making Sora. In a reply on X, Google DeepMind CEO Demis Hassabis welcomed Brooks, saying that he will help to “make the long-standing dream of a world simulator a reality.”

Brooks’ departure hit like a ton of bricks as Soracontinues to face technical challenges with no official update on its release. As per reports, Sora does not accurately simulate the physics of certain interactions, generating …