OpenAI co-founder and president Greg Brockman is officially taking the reins of the company’s product strategy, according to Wired.
This seems to solidify an already-existing change, with Brockman overseeing OpenAI’s products on an interim basis while the company’s CEO of AGI deployment Fidji Simo is out on medical leave. Wired also reports that in a staff memo, Brockman described plans to combine ChatGPT and its programming product Codex into a single unified experience.
“We’re consolidating our product efforts to execute with maximum focus toward the agentic future, to win across both consumer and enterprise,” Brockman reportedly said.
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This is just the latest OpenAI shakeup since CEO Sam Altman declared a “code red” at the end of last year and said the company needs to refocus on the core ChatGPT experience. Since then, OpenAI has halted “side quests” including video generator Sora and OpenAI for Science, and it’s been highlighting its ambitions to build an AI “super app.”
TechCrunch has reached out to OpenAI for comment. The company told Wired that Simo, who remains on medical leave, worked with Brockman on these changes.
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