Greg Brockman, co-founder and president of OpenAI, is officially assuming control of the company’s product strategy, as reported by Wired.

This appears to reinforce a pre-existing shift, with Brockman managing OpenAI’s products on an interim basis while Fidji Simo, the company’s CEO of AGI deployment, is on medical leave. Wired also indicates that in a memo to staff, Brockman outlined plans to merge ChatGPT and its coding product Codex into a singular cohesive experience.

“We’re streamlining our product initiatives to perform with utmost concentration toward the agentic future, to succeed in both consumer and enterprise sectors,” Brockman is said to have stated.

OpenAI informed TechCrunch that even though Simo continues on medical leave, she collaborated with Brockman on these modifications. The organization also emphasized that discussions about integrating ChatGPT, Codex, and its API into one platform, with a central product team, have already been underway.

At the end of the previous year, CEO Sam Altman announced a “code red” and stated the necessity for the company to refocus on the fundamental ChatGPT experience. Since that time, OpenAI has suspended “side quests” such as the video generator Sora and OpenAI for Science.

This post has been revised with further details from OpenAI.