Alexis Conneau, former chief researcher at OpenAI and head of the GPT-4o project, announced his departure to start a new company, sparking discussions in the AI community. Conneau revealed on social media that after the conclusion of his '#Her project' at OpenAI, he decided to launch a new venture. He humorously responded to inquiries about the timeline for Artificial General Intelligence (AGI), suggesting that the new company could bring about 'AGEI'. Conneau has made significant contributions to the field of AI, particularly in natural language processing (NLP) and machine learning.