OpenAI merges ChatGPT and Codex under Greg Brockman

OpenAI has merged ChatGPT, Codex, and its developer API under co-founder and president Greg Brockman, according to an internal memo seen by Wired. The move gives Brockman permanent control of the company’s product strategy and folds the core consumer, developer, and platform teams into one product organization.

In the memo, Brockman said OpenAI will “invest in a single agentic platform” and merge ChatGPT and Codex into “one unified agentic experience for all.” The restructuring formalizes an interim setup that began in early April, when Fidji Simo, OpenAI’s CEO of AGI deployment, went on medical leave. OpenAI told TechCrunch that Simo worked with Brockman on the changes and is expected to return, although the company has not given a timeline.

The new structure puts four pillars under Brockman. Thibault Sottiaux, the engineer who helped build Codex into one of OpenAI’s fastest-growing products, will lead core product and platform work across consumer, enterprise, and developer surfaces. Nick Turley, who helped ChatGPT grow to more than 900 million weekly active users, is moving into a role focused on enterprise products and critical industries.

Brockman also keeps responsibility for AI infrastructure, including the Stargate data centre programme. That matters because the consolidation is being driven, at least in part, by compute limits. On a recent podcast, Brockman said OpenAI’s computing power is “not enough for even a personal assistant and the Codex line.”

The reorganisation is the result of a broader strategic pullback that began in December, when CEO Sam Altman declared a “code red” and told staff the company needed to refocus on ChatGPT. Since then, OpenAI has shut down Sora, its video generation app, which reportedly used a large amount of compute relative to its revenue and complicated a planned $1 billion Disney investment. It also shelved an adult mode for ChatGPT after criticism from staff, advisers, and investors, and paused OpenAI for Science. Kevin Weil, who headed Sora, and Bill Peebles, who led product work there, both left the company.

Internally, OpenAI has described those paused projects as “side quests.” Brockman’s memo makes clear that the company is done with them for now. The new plan is to concentrate engineering and product work on a single surface that can handle conversation, code generation, tool use, and autonomous task execution.

The competitive pressure is rising at the same time. Cursor has reached $2 billion in annualised revenue and is in talks to raise money at a $50 billion valuation, according to the report, showing how quickly agentic coding tools are growing. Anthropic’s Claude Code has also been gaining ground with enterprise developers. Google’s Gemini has increased its share of AI web traffic from 5.7% to 21.5% over the past 12 months, according to SimilarWeb, while ChatGPT’s share fell from 86.7% to 64.5%.

The timing also points toward OpenAI’s public-market plans. The company is preparing for an IPO in the fourth quarter of 2026 and is targeting a valuation of about $852 billion, according to the source article. A single product story is easier to explain to investors than a bundle of separate apps and teams.

The restructuring comes as OpenAI faces another major pressure point: the Musk v. Altman trial, which began jury selection on Monday in Oakland federal court. Elon Musk’s lawsuit seeks up to $150 billion in damages and aims to unwind OpenAI’s nonprofit-to-profit conversion. Brockman is central to that case as well, while also now running product strategy and infrastructure.

OpenAI says the unified platform will roll out gradually. Codex will be expanded first to cover productivity tasks beyond coding before ChatGPT and the company’s research tool Atlas are added. No launch date has been announced.