Greg Brockman is officially taking control of OpenAI’s products in the latest shakeup

Greg Brockman is officially taking control of OpenAI’s products in the latest shakeup

By Maxwell Zeff
Publication Date: 2026-05-15 17:09:00

OpenAI told employees WIRED announced Friday that it will reorganize as part of ongoing efforts to unify its product offerings, WIRED has learned. OpenAI co-founder and president Greg Brockman will now lead the company’s product strategy in addition to his work on AI infrastructure, OpenAI confirms to WIRED. Brockman was previously temporarily tasked with overseeing OpenAI products while AGI Deployment CEO Fidji Simo was on leave for health reasons; The change is now official.

“We are consolidating our product efforts to deliver with maximum focus on the agent future to appeal to both consumers and businesses,” Brockman said in a memo to employees obtained by WIRED. Brockman added that OpenAI’s products are growing together naturally and that the company has decided to merge ChatGPT and Codex into a unified experience.

OpenAI says it is combining ChatGPT, its AI coding agent Codex, and its developer-focused API into one core product team. The company says that Codex…