Greg Brockman Officially Takes Over OpenAI Products and the ChatGPT-Codex Merger

On May 15, 2026, OpenAI officially put co-founder and president Greg Brockman in charge of its entire product strategy. It continues the push to merge ChatGPT and Codex into one user experience, where chat, code and agent actions are meant to work as a single system.

The new product structure

OpenAI told employees about a new reorganization: Brockman is now responsible not only for AI infrastructure but for the company's product strategy as a whole. He had already overseen products on an interim basis while Fidji Simo, head of AGI deployment, was on medical leave. That arrangement is now permanent.

At the same time, OpenAI is combining ChatGPT, Codex and the developer API into one central product team, aiming to ship features faster and remove internal duplication between different product lines.

"We are consolidating our product efforts so we can move toward the agentic future with maximum focus,"

Brockman wrote to employees.

The key idea is that OpenAI's products are no longer treated as separate islands. Codex is increasingly used not just as a developer tool but as an engine for consumer and enterprise scenarios, where AI is supposed to do more than answer: it should carry out digital tasks on the user's behalf. So the company decided not to develop ChatGPT and Codex as parallel worlds, and to bring them into one product loop.

Who is in charge now

Alongside the transfer of authority to Brockman, OpenAI reassigned several prominent leadership roles. This is about more than a new org chart: it determines who will be responsible for the next stage of scaling, as the company bets on agent scenarios and a more cohesive product lineup.

• Thibault Sottiaux, who led Codex, will head the core product and platform teams.
• Nick Turley, who ran ChatGPT for many years, moves to enterprise products.
• Ashley Alexander, a former Instagram vice president and head of OpenAI's health unit, will lead the consumer unit.
• Fidji Simo remains on medical leave, but OpenAI expects her to return.

It matters that Nick Turley is leaving the consumer side specifically: under him, ChatGPT grew to more than 900 million weekly active users. It shows that OpenAI is now splitting two big tasks into separate tracks: a mass-market consumer product, and enterprise solutions where security, deployment and predictable monetization matter most.

Why the overhaul

The overhaul looks logical given how OpenAI has been trimming its portfolio in recent months. This spring the company already shut down Sora as a standalone app, disbanded some side initiatives and began folding experimental products into larger areas such as Codex. Several prominent executives have also left, including Kevin Weil, Bill Peebles and Srinivas Narayanan. The overall signal is simple: fewer scattered bets, more concentration on a few big products.

The market is pushing too. In coding tools, OpenAI is actively catching up with Anthropic, and in consumer chatbots it continues to compete with Google. Against that backdrop, the company wants to approach a possible IPO in a clearer shape: fewer separate apps, a simpler org structure and a single story for investors. Within that logic, the future super app, which is meant to combine ChatGPT, Codex and the Atlas browser in one desktop application, now looks less like an experiment and more like the central bet.

What it means

OpenAI is moving away from a model with a set of high-profile but loosely connected AI products, toward a single platform for work and agent tasks. If the plan works, users will increasingly not have to choose between a chat, a coding agent and separate tools: the key capabilities will sit in one interface, and the fight with Anthropic and Google will shift further from a race of models to a race of product execution.

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