Just now, OpenAI dropped a nuclear bomb on the eve of its IPO.

It's not a new product launch, but a complete power restructuring.
And the person stepping into the spotlight is someone no one expected—Greg Brockman.
This story is more exciting than any science fiction novel.
First, let's talk about the leadership change.
Nick Turley, the "father" of ChatGPT, personally turned ChatGPT from an unnoticed tool into the world's top super app with 900 million weekly active users.
It was this person who was suddenly removed from the consumer product line by an order and reassigned to manage the relatively marginal enterprise user segment.
His successor is former Instagram Vice President Ashley Alexander.
He was parachuted in, directly taking over the core traffic.
The hero is sidelined—that's the standard opening in palace intrigue.
Then comes Brockman.
His resume can be summed up in one sentence: On the night the board ousted Ultraman, he was the only one to resign along with his iron rice bowl.
Since returning, he has been quietly working behind the scenes on infrastructure, never appearing publicly.
The nominal Product CEO Fidji Simo has been on indefinite leave due to illness since April, and Brockman is "acting" as product head.
This past Friday, the word "acting" was officially removed.
The shadow king has stepped into the spotlight.
At the same time, an unprecedented product line merger took place.
ChatGPT, Codex, API—three originally separate product lines—were directly shattered and merged into a unified product organization.
Brockman's reasoning is straightforward: the era of Agents has arrived, and fragmented product lines are a dead end.
ChatGPT can't code; it's just a chat vase. Codex has no interface and can't be used by ordinary people. API lacks ecosystem integration; its moat will collapse.
The three-in-one is both a strategic focus and a desperate bid for survival.
A bigger secret lies behind the restructuring.
The internal project codenamed "Super App" is already in secret development—ChatGPT brain + Codex code execution + Atlas browser, integrated into one, directly growing on your desktop.
It can browse web pages, write scripts, and execute complex tasks on its own.
It's not a chat box; it's a true Agent.
This is the final bet that Ultraman and Brockman are placing.
But this restructuring also has another side, not so pretty.
In the past month, OpenAI's resignation list includes:
Sora co-lead Bill Peebles, left.
Enterprise applications CTO Srinivas Narayanan, left.
Scientist AI workspace head Kevin Weil, left.
The executive layer is being hollowed out.
So, this three-line merger is not mainly because of strong troops, but because there’s no one left to use—pushing the remaining elite forces onto the same battlefield, using the Super App narrative to cover up internal blood loss.
External pressure leaves no room to breathe.
This week, Anthropic completed a $30 billion funding round, with a valuation of $900 billion, officially surpassing OpenAI to become the world's highest-valued independent AI unicorn.
Annual recurring revenue hits $45 billion, growing 500% in five months.
This curve is unprecedented in the entire history of tech and business.
Next week, Google I/O kicks off, and the blades are already sharpened.
The window for OpenAI is rapidly closing.
Finally, let's talk about IPO.
OpenAI is set to go public this year—this is a well-known secret in Silicon Valley.
Wall Street fears two things most: unclear storylines and internal executive conflicts.
This restructuring is Ultraman telling a new story to the capital market:
We don’t have three teams competing for computing power; we only have one unified Super Agent platform, 900 million weekly active users, soon on desktop, ready to handle all your digital work.
Having Brockman personally in charge is a shot of confidence for investors on the brink of collapse: the technological soul is still on the front line, not gone.
From a nonprofit lab in a San Francisco apartment to a business empire desperately restructuring for IPO today.
Brockman stepping into the front line is both a last-minute rescue and a fight for survival.
The AI throne race has just entered its bloodiest phase.