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title: "Profile: Greg Brockman has quietly consolidated power at OpenAI"
url: https://www.parallelquant.com/posts/profile-greg-brockman-has-quietly-consolidated-power-at-openai-97360e
source_name: "The Verge"
source_url: https://www.theverge.com/ai-artificial-intelligence/982774/greg-brockman-openai-role-expansion
published: 2026-08-20T15:45:55.000Z
topics: ["policy", "products"]
publisher: "Parallel Quant"
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# Profile: Greg Brockman has quietly consolidated power at OpenAI

*2026-08-20 · Source: [The Verge](https://www.theverge.com/ai-artificial-intelligence/982774/greg-brockman-openai-role-expansion)*

A profile describes how OpenAI president and co-founder Greg Brockman has steadily gained influence over the past year, a period that included a jury trial with Elon Musk, an Apple trade-secrets lawsuit, scrutiny after an unreleased model was implicated in a hack of another AI company, and the exit of several senior executives ahead of a planned IPO.

**Why it matters:** Who actually holds decision-making power at a frontier lab shapes its safety and deployment tradeoffs. This lands alongside other recent signs of turmoil at OpenAI, including a disbanded AI risk preparedness team and paused frontier reinforcement learning (RL) training after a hacking incident, making the company's internal power structure directly relevant to how it navigates its IPO and future releases.

**Topics:** policy, products

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