It’s Greg Brockman’s OpenAI now
TL;DR
OpenAI has had a hell of a year. The company spent months battling former co-founder Elon Musk in a sensational jury trial, was hit with a high-profile trade secrets lawsuit from Apple, and faced widespread scrutiny after an unreleased model hacked another AI company. As it prepares for an IPO, a steady string of executives have departed, including some of the company's biggest names. Throughout it all, one person has quietly amassed power: Greg Brockman.
Nauti's Take
A clearer power axis at OpenAI has a practical upside: product priorities and model cycles get more predictable when fewer parties weigh in. The catch is the flip side of the same coin, because heavy dependence on one person means carrying that person's risk.
Teams building on the API should take the predictability and still test exit paths and data portability.
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