OpenAI Puts Co-Founder Greg Brockman in Charge of Every Product
OpenAI is putting its co-founder in charge of everything
Greg Brockman, OpenAI's president and co-founder, is taking direct control of the company's product strategy — folding ChatGPT, the Codex coding agent, and the developer API into a single unified team, the company confirmed Monday Wired. The move places Brockman, who has spent years focused on AI infrastructure and safety work, squarely atop the consumer and enterprise products that now reach more than 900 million weekly active users.
"We're consolidating our product efforts to execute with maximum focus toward the agentic future, to win across both consumer and enterprise," Brockman said Wired.
The reorganization elevates Thibault Sottiaux, who has led the Codex coding agent, to run OpenAI's core product and platform teams Wired. Nick Turley, who has overseen ChatGPT since launch and grew it to 900 million weekly users, is moving to a new role leading enterprise products Wired. Enterprise is a growth market for OpenAI, and Turley's move could reflect expanded ambition rather than diminished standing — though the company did not specify whether his scope widened or narrowed.
The restructuring reflects a bet that the agentic future — AI systems that autonomously complete multi-step tasks on behalf of users — is the next major platform shift, and that OpenAI needs a single product strategy to win it. OpenAI has described its super app as a desktop environment designed for autonomous agents to operate across applications on a user's behalf Wired, combining Codex, ChatGPT, and the Atlas web browser into a unified surface.
For the millions of developers and enterprise customers building on OpenAI's API, the consolidation signals they are increasingly building on a substrate rather than a discrete product — a single stack that could make it harder to switch to competing AI providers.
The consolidation also arrives as OpenAI prepares to file for an IPO later in 2026, according to a person familiar with the filings Wired. Companies preparing for public offerings routinely streamline product portfolios to demonstrate focus and predictability to institutional investors — a lesson from the wave of tech IPOs in the 2010s. If Brockman succeeds in building a unified agentic stack, OpenAI becomes a more formidable competitor to Anthropic, Google, and Meta. If it fails, the consolidation could fracture a product ecosystem that spans 900 million users and millions of developers.
The Wired article, by Maxwell Zeff, was not yet publicly accessible at time of publication. OpenAI did not respond to a request for comment.