OpenAI recently announced an organizational restructuring to unify its product offerings, placing Greg Brockman in permanent control of product strategy. Brockman, who also manages AI infrastructure, previously held product oversight on an interim basis while Fidji Simo, the CEO of AGI deployment, was on medical leave. Simo remains on medical leave but worked directly with Brockman on the restructuring. As first reported by WIRED, the consolidation merges ChatGPT, the AI coding agent Codex, and the developer-facing API into a single core product team.
Brockman has been with OpenAI as Co-Founder and President, focusing on AI infrastructure before stepping into the interim product role. Under the new structure, other internal leaders are taking on expanded responsibilities. Thibault Sottiaux, the former head of Codex, will now lead the core product and platform teams. Nick Turley is transitioning from his role leading ChatGPT to head enterprise products, while Ashley Alexander, a former vice president at Instagram who led OpenAI's health products, will now head the consumer product unit.
The structural overhaul aims to merge ChatGPT and Codex into a single unified experience and develop a desktop application that combines Codex, ChatGPT, and the Atlas web browser. This product simplification comes as OpenAI faces increasing pressure from Anthropic in coding domains and Google in consumer chatbots, and prepares to file for an IPO later this year. The streamlined focus follows several executive departures, including Kevin Weil, former head of the AI workspace for scientists; Bill Peebles, former head of Sora; and Srinivas Narayanan, former chief technology officer of enterprise applications.