OpenAI co-founder Greg Brockman reportedly takes charge of product strategy

OpenAI co-founder and president Greg Brockman will officially take charge of the company’s product strategy. according to Wired.

This appears to reinforce an already existing change, with Brockman overseeing OpenAI’s products on an interim basis while the company’s AGI implementation CEO Fidji Simo is on medical leave. Wired also reports that Brockman described in a memo plans to combine ChatGPT and its programming product Codex into one unified experience.

“We are consolidating our product efforts with maximum focus on the agentic future, to convince both consumers and businesses,” said Brockman.

This is just the latest OpenAI shakeup since CEO Sam Altman declared a “code red” late last year and said the company needs to refocus on ChatGPT’s core experience. Since then, OpenAI has dropped its ‘side quests’, including video generator Sora and OpenAI for Science, and has emphasized its ambitions to build an AI ‘super app’.

TechCrunch has reached out to OpenAI for comment. The company told Wired that Simo, who is on medical leave, worked with Brockman on these changes.