OpenAI cofounder Greg Brockman is now officially in charge of the company's product strategy, the company told staff on May 15, 2026, formalizing an interim arrangement put in place when CEO of AGI deployment Fidji Simo went on medical leave last month. Brockman keeps his existing oversight of AI infrastructure and adds the entire consumer and enterprise product line on top of it. The reorganization folds ChatGPT, the Codex coding agent, and OpenAI's developer API into a single core product team. ChatGPT now reaches 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 wrote in a memo to staff. The framing matters: OpenAI is telling its workforce, and by extension the market, that ChatGPT and Codex are converging into one agentic surface rather than living as separate products with separate roadmaps.
Thibault Sottiaux, previously head of Codex, is being elevated to lead the unified core product and platform across consumer, enterprise, and developer surfaces. OpenAI credits Sottiaux with building Codex into one of its fastest-growing products. That promotion signals where the company thinks the center of gravity is moving — toward systems that take actions on a user's behalf, not just answer questions.
Key facts
- 01Greg Brockman officially takes over OpenAI product strategy on May 15, 2026, in addition to his AI infrastructure work.
- 02ChatGPT, Codex, and OpenAI's developer API are being merged into one core product team.
- 03ChatGPT has grown to more than 900 million weekly active users since Nick Turley took it over in 2022.
- 04Codex head Thibault Sottiaux now leads the unified core product and platform across consumer, enterprise, and developer.
- 05OpenAI plans to file for an IPO later this year; CEO of AGI deployment Fidji Simo remains on medical leave.
Nick Turley, who has run ChatGPT since 2022 and grown weekly active users past 900 million, moves to a new role focused on revamping enterprise products. OpenAI says Turley will continue working on ChatGPT alongside the enterprise mandate. Pulling the operator who scaled the world's largest consumer AI product into enterprise is a tell about where OpenAI sees the next revenue leg.
“OpenAI is folding ChatGPT, Codex, and its developer API into one core product team, with ChatGPT now serving more than 900 million weekly active users.”— Jaeden Schafer
The company says Codex is "increasingly powering its consumer and enterprise offerings, which are gaining the ability to perform digital tasks autonomously on behalf of users." Translated: the coding agent stack is becoming the action layer underneath the chat interface, and OpenAI no longer wants two separate engineering org charts maintaining what is functionally one product.
This is OpenAI's second major executive reshuffle in roughly a month. The April round included Simo's medical leave announcement and the exits of Kevin Weil, who ran the company's AI workspace for scientists, Sora head Bill Peebles, and Srinivas Narayanan, chief technology officer of enterprise applications. OpenAI says Simo remains on leave, is expected to return, and worked directly with Brockman on the new structure.
The competitive backdrop is sharper than it was a year ago. Anthropic has pulled ahead in several coding workflows with Claude Code, and Google Gemini has become a genuine alternative in consumer chat. OpenAI's decision to collapse ChatGPT, Codex, and the API into one team reads as an attempt to stop fighting on two fronts with two separate product cultures.
There is also a financial clock running. OpenAI is preparing to file for an IPO that could happen later this year, and public-market investors prefer a clean product story over a sprawl of overlapping bets. A single agentic platform with one product chief, one core team, and one revenue narrative is easier to underwrite than the patchwork OpenAI has been operating.
The risk in consolidating this aggressively is execution. ChatGPT, Codex, and the API serve very different customers — a casual consumer on the mobile app, a software engineer running autonomous coding sessions, and an enterprise developer building on the API have almost nothing in common except the underlying models. Collapsing them under one team can create focus or it can create a bottleneck, and OpenAI has not yet demonstrated which.
For the broader AI market, the signal is that OpenAI is betting its next phase on agents that do work rather than chatbots that talk about work, and it is willing to break its existing org chart to get there. If the merged product team ships a genuinely unified agentic experience before the IPO, OpenAI walks into the public markets with a cleaner pitch than any of its rivals. If it ships another reorg in six months, investors will notice that too.
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