OpenAI integrates ChatGPT with Codex under Greg Brockman. The side quests are over.

OpenAI co-founder and president Greg Brockman has permanently managed the company’s product strategy, integrating ChatGPT, Codex, and the developer API into a single product organization. In an internal memo seen by Wired, Brockman wrote that OpenAI will “invest in a single agent platform and integrate ChatGPT and Codex into one unified agency experience for all.” The reorganization formalizes a temporary arrangement that began in early April when Fidji Simo, OpenAI’s Chief Operating Officer for AGI distribution, took a medical leave.

The reorganization places four pillars under Brockman. Thibault Sottiaux, the developer who built Codex into one of OpenAI’s fastest-growing products, now leads the core product and platform across the consumer, enterprise, and developer space. Nick Turley, who oversaw ChatGPT’s expansion to more than 900 million weekly active users, is moving into a role focused on business and industry-leading products. Brockman retains his existing responsibility for AI infrastructure, including the Stargate data center system. OpenAI told TechCrunch that Simo has worked with Brockman on these changes and is expected to return, though no timeline has been disclosed.

The merger is the culmination of a strategic reversal that began in December when CEO Sam Altman announced “code red” and told employees that the company needed to refocus on its core ChatGPT experience. Since then, OpenAI has shut down Sora, its video production system, which consumed more computer resources than its profits and caused the collapse of Disney’s planned $1 billion investment. It blocked its adult approach to ChatGPT after pushback from employees, consultants, and OpenAI’s head of science Kevin, Openil, Head of Science Peebles, who led the product, have both left The company described these initiatives internally as “side requests.“

Brockman himself described the computing edge driving the integration in a recent podcast, saying that OpenAI’s computing power “not even enough for the personal assistant and the Codex line.“When you’re constrained by resources, you can’t maintain disparate product teams, disparate roadmaps, and disparate product engineering organizations coming together to have the same capabilities. Consolidation removes that redundancy and focuses the engineering effort in one place that can handle discussion, code generation, tooling, and autonomous work.

The competitive environment is fast. Cursor has reached $2 billion in annual revenue and is in talks to raise $50 billion, indicating that agent coding is the fastest-growing segment of developer tools. Claude’s Anthropic code has been gaining ground with business developers. Google’s Gemini has grown its share of AI traffic from 5.7% to 21.5% over the past twelve months, according to SimilarWeb, while ChatGPT’s share has dropped from 86.7% to 64.5%. Google I/O 2026 opens on Monday with agent code and Gemini updates top on the agenda. Two years ago, OpenAI went against Google I/O by unveiling GPT-4o the day before the conference. This year, OpenAI is not opposed to product launches. It is against the organization chart.

The restructuring is facing an IPO. OpenAI is preparing to go public in Q4 2026, targeting an estimated valuation of $852 billion. A simple product story, one platform rather than a portfolio of different applications, is easy to present to institutional investors. It also creates a clean revenue narrative: one subscription tier, one developer platform, one business offering, all built on the same basic infrastructure model. The previous structure, where ChatGPT pursued consumer access while Codex served developers and API monetization ecosystems separately, created internal competition for computing, engineering talent, and strategic attention.

The timing is strange in the case of Musk v. Altman, which began jury selection Monday in federal court in Oakland. Musk’s lawsuit seeks up to $150 billion in damages and the revocation of OpenAI’s non-profit conversion. The most damning evidence is a 2017 diary from Brockman himself, who wrote: “I don’t believe we are committed to not making a profit if three months later we do a corp it would be a lie.” Brockman is now simultaneously leading OpenAI’s product strategy, overseeing the creation of its infrastructure, and serving as the middle man in a test that will determine whether the company’s legal framework survives.

A unified platform, which OpenAI internally describes as an agent “best app,” will be rolled out gradually. Codex will first be expanded to include productivity tasks beyond coding before ChatGPT and the company’s research tool Atlas are folded in. No launch date has been announced. The desire is a single application where a user can chat, write code, perform multi-step tasks, browse the web, manage files, and interact with external services, all with a single monetization model or subscription. API payment relationship.

How one person can run both the product strategy and infrastructure of a company with 900 million weekly users, thousands of employees, a multibillion-dollar data center system, and an IPO on the horizon is a question that OpenAI’s board implicitly answered by giving Brockman both jobs. The answer is that they don’t trust anyone else to do it. The side quests are over. The rest is the main quest: build a platform, send an agent, go public. Everything else is cut.