Greg Brockman officially takes over OpenAI product leadership and the unification of ChatGPT and Codex

On May 15, 2026, OpenAI officially assigned co-founder and President Greg Brockman to oversee the company's entire product strategy. This continues the course of unifying ChatGPT and Codex into a single user experience, where chat, code, and agent actions should work as one system.

New Product Scheme

OpenAI informed employees of a new reorganization: Brockman now oversees not only AI infrastructure but the company's entire product strategy. He had previously managed products temporarily while AGI deployment head Fiji Simo was on medical leave. This status is now permanent.

At the same time, OpenAI is consolidating ChatGPT, Codex, and the API for developers into one central product team to accelerate feature launches and eliminate internal duplications across different product lines.

"We're unifying product efforts to move toward an agentic future with maximum focus,"

Brockman wrote to employees.

The key idea is that OpenAI products are no longer treated as separate islands. Codex is increasingly being used not just as a developer tool but as an engine for consumer and enterprise scenarios where AI should not merely respond but execute digital tasks on behalf of the user. This is why the company decided to consolidate ChatGPT and Codex into one product loop rather than develop them as parallel worlds.

Who's Now in Charge

Along with transferring authority to Brockman, OpenAI reshuffled several notable management roles. This is not just about a new org chart but about who will lead the next scaling phase, as the company bets on agentic scenarios and a more streamlined product lineup.

• Thibault Sauttiaux, who led Codex, will head key product and platform teams.
• Nick Turley, who managed ChatGPT for many years, is moving to enterprise products.
• Ashley Alexander, former Instagram Vice President and head of OpenAI's health division, will lead the consumer block.
• Fiji Simo remains on medical leave, but OpenAI expects her return.

Notably, Nick Turley is leaving the consumer block: under his leadership, ChatGPT grew to over 900 million weekly active users. This shows that OpenAI is now separating two major tasks across different teams — the mass consumer product and enterprise solutions, where security, deployment, and predictable monetization are particularly important.

Why the Restructuring

This restructuring appears logical given how OpenAI has been consolidating its portfolio in recent months. In the spring, the company already shut down Sora as a standalone application, dissolved parts of side initiatives, and began embedding experimental products into larger directions like Codex. Meanwhile, several notable leaders left the company, including Kevin Weil, Bill Pebbles, and Srinivas Narayanan.

The overall signal is simple: fewer scattered bets, greater concentration on a few major products.

Market pressures are also driving this decision. In programming tools, OpenAI is actively catching up to Anthropic, while in consumer chatbots it continues to compete with Google. Against this backdrop, the company wants to approach a potential IPO in a more understandable form: with fewer standalone applications, a simpler organizational structure, and a single narrative for investors. Within this logic, the future super-app that should unite ChatGPT, Codex, and the Atlas browser into one desktop application already looks not like an experiment but a central bet.

What This Means

OpenAI is moving away from a model where it has a set of high-profile but loosely connected AI products, and moving toward a unified platform for work and agentic tasks. If this plan succeeds, users will increasingly rarely need to choose between chat, a coding agent, and separate tools: key capabilities will be consolidated in one interface, and competition with Anthropic and Google will increasingly shift from a model race to a product execution race.