OpenAI co-founder and president Greg Brockman is officially taking the reins of the company’s product strategy. according to wired.
This appears to reinforce a change already in place, with Brockman overseeing OpenAI’s products on an interim basis while the company’s CEO of AGI deployments, Fidzi Simo, is on medical leave. Wired also reports that in a staff memo, Brockman described plans to combine ChatGPT and its programming product Codex into a unified experience.
Brockman reportedly said, “We are consolidating our product efforts to maximize focus toward the agentic future, to win over both the consumer and the enterprise.”
This is the latest OpenAI shakeup since CEO Sam Altman “Code Red” declared late last year and said the company needed to refocus on the core ChatGPAT experience. Since then, OpenAI has Stopped “side quest” Video generators for science including Sora and OpenAI, and it has been Highlighted its ambitions to create AI “super apps”.
TechCrunch has contacted OpenAI for comment. The company told Wired that Simo, who is on medical leave, worked with Brockman on these changes.
