Brockman takes over OpenAI product integration, Sora is cut due to "tech tree branching"

According to Beating Monitoring, OpenAI President Greg Brockman revealed in the same episode of the Core Memory podcast that he has taken over the integration of the company’s overall products and supporting research, having been in the role for about “a few weeks.” CEO Altman said this change has made the company internally “significantly happier.”

Brockman outlined three main product lines. The first is the Agent platform, which he said is “progressing very smoothly,” with new releases expected in the coming weeks. The second is “computing work,” deliberately avoiding the term “knowledge work,” stating that “no one considers themselves knowledge workers,” with the core goal of expanding Codex from serving engineers to serving everyone. The third is “personal AGI,” turning ChatGPT into an agent with user context that can act autonomously, such as AI discovering local concerts by your favorite musicians and directly helping you buy tickets.

The cost of integration is cutting back on side projects. Brockman confirmed that Sora was downgraded for two reasons: its underlying model differs from the GPT mainline, belonging to “another branch of the tech tree”; creative video expression is not within the three main lines. He added that the Sora team’s work was “excellent,” and the technology “will continue in other applications.” Similarly, he also recalled the robotic arm project cut in 2018: trained with reinforcement learning algorithms similar to those used in esports, but tendons snapped after 20 hours, and engineers had to come in overnight to repair it. “That team later went on to develop GitHub Copilot.”