Profile: Greg Brockman has quietly consolidated power at OpenAI

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.