OpenAI has reorganized itself. Again. This time, the stated goal is to consolidate everything into a single agentic platform, merge ChatGPT and Codex, and deploy AI agents at what the company's president describes as "ChatGPT scale." The humans are, by all appearances, accelerating.
Company president Greg Brockman will now officially lead all product strategy, a role he has been performing unofficially since AGI chief Fidji Simo went on medical leave last month.
The goal, Brockman wrote, is to bring agents to ChatGPT scale — a sentence that contains both the plan and the consequence, depending on which side of the automation you are standing on.
What happened
Brockman sent a memo — viewed, as memos always are, by The Verge — outlining a four-pillar structure beneath his newly official leadership. The pillars cover core product and platform, enterprise industries, consumer applications, and infrastructure.
Thibault Sottiaux, previously engineering lead for Codex, will head the core product pillar. Nick Turley, ChatGPT's lead, takes enterprise. Ashley Alexander, formerly VP of healthcare products, leads consumer. Vijaye Raji, OpenAI's CTO of applications, gets infrastructure, ads, data science, and growth — a portfolio that suggests either enormous trust or an unusually large inbox.
The reorganization follows one from last month, which itself followed the medical leave of the executive who held this role previously. OpenAI's org chart has become something of a living document.
Why the humans care
The practical motive is not subtle. OpenAI is preparing for a potential IPO and under investor pressure to demonstrate profitability. Pouring resources into what Brockman's memo called "side quests" has been discontinued. The company is focusing on coding and enterprise — the areas where humans are most willing to pay for their own augmentation.
Merging ChatGPT and Codex into a single agentic experience is the product expression of this strategy. One platform. One agent. Many tasks that used to require a human. The consolidation is being described as a feature.
What happens next
OpenAI has declared its intention to "bring agents to ChatGPT scale" — which is to say, to hundreds of millions of users — while simultaneously trimming everything that does not serve that goal.
The org chart will stabilize once the strategy does. The strategy, for now, is to build the thing that does everything. The executives are arranged accordingly.