OpenAI is tightening its focus on AI “agents,” elevating co-founder and president Greg Brockman to formal control of product strategy while collapsing multiple offerings into a single core platform.
In recent months, OpenAI has been steadily restructuring its org chart. After AGI deployment chief Fidji Simo went on medical leave, Brockman began overseeing product on an interim basis, a shift now made official, with OpenAI confirming he is “taking the reins of the company’s product strategy.”1 The move follows CEO Sam Altman’s earlier internal “code red” to refocus on the core ChatGPT experience and pause less central experiments like the Sora video generator and OpenAI for Science.1
According to an internal memo reported by Wired and relayed by TechCrunch, Brockman outlined plans to merge ChatGPT and the Codex programming assistant into “a single unified experience,” framing the change as a way to “execute with maximum focus toward the agentic future, to win across both consumer and enterprise.”1 OpenAI said Simo, though still on leave, collaborated with Brockman on the redesign, which also anticipates unifying ChatGPT, Codex, and the API into one platform with a single core product team.1
A day earlier, The Verge detailed how the reorganization fits into a broader competitive and financial strategy. In a memo obtained by the outlet, Brockman wrote that OpenAI plans to “invest in a single agentic platform and to merge ChatGPT and Codex into one unified agentic experience for all,” as the company goes “all-in on AI agents.”2 The restructuring creates four pillars under Brockman: core product and platform; critical enterprise industries; consumer products like health and commerce; and a fourth for core infrastructure, ads, data science, and growth.2
This consolidation comes amid investor pressure and a potential IPO, with OpenAI explicitly seeking to prioritize “key revenue drivers like coding and enterprise” and to pull back from “side quests.”2 Together, the changes signal a bet that a unified, large-scale agent platform—rather than a collection of separate tools—will define OpenAI’s next phase.