OpenAI instructed employees on Friday that it might reorganize the corporate as a part of an ongoing effort to unify its product choices, WIRED has discovered. OpenAI cofounder and president Greg Brockman will now lead the corporate’s product technique, along with his work on AI infrastructure, OpenAI confirms to WIRED. Brockman was beforehand assigned to supervise OpenAI merchandise on an interim foundation whereas the CEO of AGI deployment, Fidji Simo, was on medical depart; the change is now official.
“We’re consolidating our product efforts to execute with most focus towards the agentic future, to win throughout each shopper and enterprise,” Brockman mentioned in a memo to employees seen by WIRED. Brockman added that OpenAI’s merchandise are naturally converging, and that the corporate has determined to merge ChatGPT and Codex into one unified expertise.
OpenAI says it’s folding ChatGPT, its AI coding agent Codex, and its developer-facing API into one core product group. The corporate says that Codex is more and more powering its shopper and enterprise choices, that are gaining the flexibility to carry out digital duties autonomously on behalf of customers.
Different OpenAI leaders are additionally taking up bigger roles on the firm as a part of the adjustments. OpenAI’s head of Codex, Thibault Sottiaux, has been tapped to steer the corporate’s core product and platform groups. Sottiaux was a key chief in constructing Codex into one of many firm’s fastest-growing merchandise of all time. He’s additionally one of many leaders overseeing improvement of OpenAI’s forthcoming “super app,” which goals to mix Codex, ChatGPT, and the corporate’s Atlas net browser right into a unified desktop utility.
OpenAI’s longtime head of ChatGPT, Nick Turley, is transferring to a brand new function to steer the corporate’s work on enterprise merchandise. OpenAI says Turley, who has led ChatGPT since launch and helped develop it to greater than 900 million weekly energetic customers, will now not work on its shopper merchandise. Ashley Alexander, a former VP of Instagram who has been main OpenAI’s work on well being merchandise, will now lead the corporate’s shopper product unit.
The adjustments are the latest shake-up for OpenAI as management goals to refocus the corporate on a number of key product areas, together with ChatGPT, Codex, and its “tremendous app.” Final month, OpenAI introduced many govt adjustments, together with that Simo was taking a medical depart to deal with her well being. OpenAI beforehand mentioned Brockman would oversee product technique in her absence. The corporate tells WIRED that Simo stays on medical depart, and expects her return, noting that she labored instantly with Brockman on these organizational adjustments.
Within the final yr, OpenAI has confronted growing strain from opponents, together with Anthropic in coding domains and Google in shopper chatbots. OpenAI leaders are hoping to simplify product choices forward of its plan to file for an IPO, which might occur later this yr.
Different OpenAI executives left the company entirely last month, together with the top of its AI workspace for scientists, Kevin Weil; head of Sora, Invoice Peebles; and its chief expertise officer of enterprise purposes, Srinivas Narayanan.
Replace 5/15/26 2:35ET: This story has been up to date with further particulars about new govt roles.
