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OpenAI told staff on Friday that it would reorganize the company as part of an ongoing effort to unify its product offerings, WIRED has learned. OpenAI cofounder and president Greg Brockman will now lead the company\u2019s product strategy, in addition to his work on AI infrastructure, OpenAI confirms to WIRED. Brockman was previously assigned to oversee OpenAI products on an interim basis while the CEO of AGI deployment, Fidji Simo, was on medical leave; the change is now official.<\/p>\n
\u201cWe\u2019re consolidating our product efforts to execute with maximum focus toward the agentic future, to win across both consumer and enterprise,\u201d Brockman said in a memo to staff seen by WIRED. Brockman added that OpenAI\u2019s products are naturally converging, and that the company has decided to merge ChatGPT and Codex into one unified experience.<\/p>\n
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| Are you a current or former OpenAI employee who wants to talk about what's happening? We'd like to hear from you. Using a nonwork phone or computer, contact the reporter securely on Signal at mzeff.88.<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<\/tbody>\n<\/table>\n OpenAI says it\u2019s folding ChatGPT, its AI coding agent Codex, and its developer-facing API into one core product team. The company says that Codex is increasingly powering its consumer and enterprise offerings, which are gaining the ability to perform digital tasks autonomously on behalf of users.<\/p>\n Other OpenAI leaders are also taking on larger roles at the company as part of the changes. OpenAI\u2019s head of Codex, Thibault Sottiaux, has been tapped to lead the company's core product and platform teams. Sottiaux was a key leader in building Codex into one of the company\u2019s fastest-growing products of all time. He\u2019s also one of the leaders overseeing development of OpenAI\u2019s forthcoming \u201csuper app,\u201d which aims to combine Codex, ChatGPT, and the company\u2019s Atlas web browser into a unified desktop application.<\/p>\n OpenAI\u2019s longtime head of ChatGPT, Nick Turley, is moving to a new role to lead the company\u2019s work on enterprise products. OpenAI says Turley, who has led ChatGPT since launch and helped grow it to more than 900 million weekly active users, will no longer work on its consumer products. Ashley Alexander, a former VP of Instagram who has been leading OpenAI\u2019s work on health products, will now lead the company\u2019s consumer product unit.<\/p>\n The changes are the latest shake-up for OpenAI as leadership aims to refocus the company on a few key product areas, including ChatGPT, Codex, and its \u201csuper app.\u201d Last month, OpenAI announced many executive changes, including that Simo was taking a medical leave to focus on her health. OpenAI previously said Brockman would oversee product strategy in her absence. The company tells WIRED that Simo remains on medical leave, and expects her return, noting that she worked directly with Brockman on these organizational changes.<\/p>\n In the last year, OpenAI has faced increasing pressure from competitors, including Anthropic in coding domains and Google in consumer chatbots. OpenAI leaders are hoping to simplify product offerings ahead of its plan to file for an IPO, which could happen later this year.<\/p>\n Other OpenAI executives left the company entirely last month, including the head of its AI workspace for scientists, Kevin Weil; head of Sora, Bill Peebles; and its chief technology officer of enterprise applications, Srinivas Narayanan.<\/p>\n Update 5\/15\/26 2:35ET: This story has been updated with additional details about new executive roles.<\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" Save StorySave this storySave StorySave this story OpenAI told staff on Friday that it would reorganize the company as part of an ongoing effort to unify its product offerings, WIRED has learned. OpenAI cofounder and president Greg Brockman will now lead the company\u2019s product strategy, in addition to his work on AI infrastructure, OpenAI confirms […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":50492,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[36],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-50491","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-business"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/agooka.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/50491","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/agooka.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/agooka.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/agooka.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/agooka.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=50491"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/agooka.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/50491\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/agooka.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/50492"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/agooka.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=50491"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/agooka.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=50491"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/agooka.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=50491"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}} |