Brockman Takes Over OpenAI Product Integration, Sora Axed Due to "Tech Tree Fork"

According to Dynamic Beating monitoring, OpenAI President Greg Brockman revealed in the same episode of the Core Memory podcast that he has taken over the overall product and complementary research integration work of the company, taking office approximately "several weeks" ago. CEO Altman said this change has made the internal team "noticeably happier".

Brockman outlined three product mainlines. The first is the Agent platform, which is "executing very smoothly" and will have a new release in the coming weeks. The second is "computing work", where he intentionally avoids using the term "knowledge work", stating that "no one thinks of themselves as a knowledge worker", with the core focus on expanding Codex from being engineer-oriented to being for everyone. The third is "personal AGI", transforming ChatGPT into an agent with user context and autonomous capabilities, such as AI discovering a music artist you like is performing locally and directly helping you buy tickets.

The cost of integration is the pruning of sidelines. Brockman confirmed that Sora has been downgraded for two reasons: its underlying model is different from the GPT mainline, belonging to "another branch of the technology tree"; and the creative video expression does not fit within the three mainlines. He added that the Sora team's work was "excellent" and the technology "will continue in other applications". Similarly, he also revisited the 2018 shelved robotic hand project: trained using the same reinforcement learning algorithm as touch-typing esports, but the tendon snapped after 20 hours, requiring engineers to rush in the middle of the night to fix it, and "that team later went on to work on GitHub Copilot".