Greg Brockman Officially Takes Control of OpenAI’s Products in Latest Shake-Up
OpenAI told staff On Friday, he would reorganize the company as part of an ongoing effort to unify its product offerings, WIRED has learned. OpenAI co-founder and president Greg Brockman will now lead the company’s product strategy, in addition to his work on AI infrastructure, OpenAI confirms to WIRED. Brockman had previously been tasked with overseeing OpenAI products in an interim capacity while AGI deployment CEO Fidji Simo was on medical leave; the change is now official.
“We are consolidating our product efforts to execute with maximum focus on the agentic future, to win over both consumers and businesses,” Brockman said in a memo to staff seen by WIRED. Brockman added that OpenAI’s products naturally converge and the company decided to merge ChatGPT and Codex into a single unified experience.
OpenAI says it is bringing ChatGPT, its Codex AI coding agent, and its developer-facing API into one core product team. The company says Codex is increasingly strengthening its consumer and enterprise offerings, which are gaining the ability to perform digital tasks autonomously on behalf of users.
Two other OpenAI executives are also taking on larger roles within the company as part of these changes. OpenAI Codex Lead Thibault Sottiaux has been chosen to lead the core product and platform across consumer, enterprise, and developer surfaces. Sottiaux played a key role in transforming Codex into one of the company’s fastest growing products of all time. Nick Turley, longtime director of ChatGPT at OpenAI, takes on a new role at the company that aims to revamp enterprise products. OpenAI says Turley will continue his work on ChatGPT, which he helped grow to more than 900 million weekly active users since he took over in 2022.
The changes mark the latest shake-up at OpenAI, as management aims to refocus the company on a few key product areas, including ChatGPT, Codex and its upcoming “everything app.” Last month, OpenAI announced numerous management changes, including Simo taking medical leave to focus on his health. OpenAI previously said Brockman would oversee product strategy in its absence. The company tells WIRED that Simo remains on medical leave and is awaiting her return, noting that she worked directly with Brockman on these organizational changes.
Over the past year, OpenAI has faced increasing pressure from competitors, including Anthropic in coding areas and Google in consumer chatbots. OpenAI executives hope to simplify product offerings ahead of their planned IPO filing, which could happen later this year.
Other OpenAI executives left the company entirely last month, including the head of its AI workspace for scientists, Kevin Weil; Sora boss Bill Peebles; and its CTO of Enterprise Applications, Srinivas Narayanan.
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