OpenAI told employees It learned Friday that it will reorganize the company as part of an ongoing effort to unify its product offerings, WIRED has learned. OpenAI co-founder and CEO Greg Brockman will now lead the company’s product strategy in addition to working on artificial intelligence infrastructure, OpenAI WIRED confirms. Brockman was previously assigned to temporarily oversee OpenAI products while AGI’s general manager of implementation, Fidji Simo, was on infirmed leave; the change is now official.
“We are consolidating product efforts to ensure they are executed with maximum focus on the future of agents to win with both consumers and enterprises,” Brockman said in a memo to employees obtained by WIRED. Brockman added that OpenAI’s products naturally connect with each other and that the company has decided to combine ChatGPT and Codex into one unified solution.
OpenAI says it is combining ChatGPT, its AI Codex coding agent, and its developer-facing API into one core product team. The company says Codex is increasingly supporting its consumer and enterprise offerings, which are gaining the ability to autonomously perform digital tasks on behalf of users.
As part of the changes, two other OpenAI leaders will also take on larger roles within the company. OpenAI’s head of Codex, Thibault Sottiaux, has been tapped to lead the core product and platform across consumer, enterprise and developer platforms. Sottiaux was a key leader in turning Codex into one of the company’s fastest-growing products of all time. Longtime head of ChatGPT at OpenAI, Nick Turley, is moving to a fresh position at the company focused on modernizing its enterprise products. OpenAI says Turley will continue working on ChatGPT, which has helped it grow to more than 900 million weekly energetic users since its acquisition in 2022.
The changes represent the latest change for OpenAI as management aims to refocus the company on several key product areas, including ChatGPT, Codex and its upcoming “app for everything.” Last month, OpenAI announced a number of leadership changes, including the fact that Simo is taking infirmed leave to focus on his health. OpenAI previously said Brockman would oversee product strategy in her absence. The company tells WIRED that Simo remains on medical leave and is awaiting her return, noting that it has worked directly with Brockman on these organizational changes.
Over the past year, OpenAI has faced increasing pressure from competitors including Anthropic in the coding domains and Google in consumer chatbots. OpenAI leaders hope to simplify its product offerings ahead of its plan to file for an initial public offering, which could happen later this year.
Other OpenAI executives left the company entirely last month, including the head of the AI for Scientists workspace, Kevin Weil; Sora’s boss, Bill Peebles; and its chief enterprise application technology officer, Srinivas Narayanan.
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