OpenAI keeps shuffling its executives in bid to win AI agent battle
OpenAI announced another reorganization on Friday, consolidating some areas and making company president Greg Brockman the official head of all things product.
In a note consulted by The edgeBrockman wrote that since OpenAI’s product strategy for this year is to focus entirely on AI agents, the company is combining its products to “invest in a single agentic platform and merge ChatGPT and Codex into a unified agentic experience for everyone.”
To do this, the company is making a series of changes to its organizational chart, although it is still operating under some of the same changes from last month. That’s when AGI boss Fidji Simo took medical leave and OpenAI announced that Brockman would be in charge of product strategy and that CSO Jason Kwon, CFO Sarah Friar and CRO Denise Dresser would take control of business operations.
It’s all part of OpenAI’s recent strategic shift to focus on core revenue drivers such as coding and enterprise and stop devoting resources to “side quests” ahead of its potential IPO later this year and under pressure from investors to turn a profit.
In Simo’s extended absence, Brockman’s role as product strategy leader is now official, along with the “scaling” arm of the company. Under Brockman, there will be four different pillars. The first is the core product and platform, led by Thibault Sottiaux, who has been responsible for engineering OpenAI for Codex, and the second is the critical business areas, led by Nick Turley, head of ChatGPT. The third pillar is consumer, such as health, commerce and personal finance, which will be led by Ashley Alexander, who has been the vice president of health products. The fourth pillar – core infrastructure, ads, data science and growth – will be led by Vijaye Raji, who has been OpenAI’s applications CTO.
Brockman wrote in the memo that OpenAI’s goal now is to “bring agents to ChatGPT scale, to give individuals and organizations significantly more value and utility from our products.”
