According to Wired, OpenAI co-founder and president Greg Brockman has officially taken over the reins of the company’s product strategy.
This appears to solidify an existing change, with Brockman overseeing OpenAI products on an interim basis while the company’s AGI deployment CEO Fiji Simo is on medical leave. Wired also reports that Brockman outlined plans in a staff memo to unify ChatGPT and its programming product Codex into a single unified experience.
“We are consolidating our product efforts to execute with maximum focus on the future of agents to win for both consumers and businesses,” Brockman reportedly said.
This is just the latest shakeup for OpenAI since CEO Sam Altman declared a “code red” late last year, saying the company needed to refocus on its core ChatGPT experience. Since then, OpenAI has halted “side quests” such as video generator Sora and OpenAI for Science, emphasizing its ambition to build AI “super apps”.
TechCrunch has reached out to OpenAI for comment. The company told Wired that Mr. Simo is currently on medical leave and worked with Mr. Brockman on these changes.
