OpenAI’s executive exodus has one big winner
The Verge Nilay Patel ● Covered by 4 sources
OpenAI’s executive departures have consolidated day-to-day control under cofounder Greg Brockman, with the president increasingly overseeing company operations and product strategy. Brockman now runs OpenAI’s consumer and enterprise product teams, including ChatGPT, Codex, and major infrastructure, as other senior leaders left since April. The shift is likely to reshape how OpenAI prioritizes its product roadmap while it prepares for a historic IPO and focuses more on enterprise and Codex than on the former consumer push.
Why it matters
Today on Decoder, I’m talking to Verge senior AI reporter Hayden Field about some pure Decoder bait: the seemingly-endless org chart changes at OpenAI, and how all of them seem to consolidate power under cofounder Greg Brockman, the company’s president. While Sam Altman is the CEO and still OpenAI’s most public face, Brockman has amassed […]