May 8 (Reuters) - Instacart CEO Fidji Simo is

joining OpenAI as the company's chief of applications, the

ChatGPT maker said on Thursday.

Altman will remain the CEO of OpenAI and will continue to

directly oversee all pillars of OpenAI, including compute and

applications, the firm said.

Simo will transition from her role at Instacart over the

next few months and join OpenAI later this year.

Instacart said that the company's new CEO will be announced

soon and that Simo will also remain Chair of the Instacart Board

to support the new CEO.

The Information first reported the development and said that

OpenAI was in talks with a senior tech executive to oversee some

of the company's divisions.