OpenAI is consolidating its most valuable products under president Greg Brockman as the company fights a legal battle that could determine its future.
OpenAI has merged its ChatGPT, Codex, and developer API teams into a single unit, a major reorganization that places co-founder and President Greg Brockman in charge of all product strategy. The move, announced in an internal memo, aims to focus the 700-million-user company on a unified "agentic platform" just as it faces a potential verdict in a lawsuit from Elon Musk that could dismantle its corporate structure.
"We’re consolidating our product efforts to execute with maximum focus toward the agentic future, to win across both consumer and enterprise," Brockman said in an internal memo.
The reorganization consolidates power under Brockman, who now leads both AI infrastructure and product development. Thibault Sottiaux, who led the company's Codex code-generation product, will now run the new combined core product and platform team. Nick Turley, the head of ChatGPT, will shift to focus on enterprise products, a move away from the company's flagship consumer application.
The shake-up is a direct response to mounting competitive and internal pressures. The company believes a scattered product approach was spreading resources too thin, especially after several high-level departures, including the heads of its Sora video model and AI workspace products. The consolidation is designed to accelerate the development of a "super app" that would combine ChatGPT's conversational abilities with Codex's code execution and a new browser, creating a single AI agent capable of executing complex digital tasks for users.
Competition and a High-Stakes Trial
This strategic pivot comes at a precarious moment for the AI leader. Competitor Anthropic has gained ground with its Claude models, particularly in the lucrative coding and enterprise markets that OpenAI is now targeting. The reorganization is also seen as a necessary step to streamline the company's story for a potential initial public offering later this year, which could value the company at up to $1 trillion.
However, the most immediate challenge is a legal one. A nine-person jury in Oakland is deliberating on a lawsuit filed by co-founder Elon Musk, who alleges the company abandoned its non-profit mission. A verdict against OpenAI could force it to unwind the 2025 recapitalization that created its current for-profit structure—in which Microsoft holds a 27% stake valued at an estimated $135 billion—and potentially remove CEO Sam Altman and Brockman from their roles. The trial has put the company's governance and a projected $14 billion loss for 2026 under intense scrutiny, making the move to project a clear, unified product strategy more critical than ever.
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