OpenAI announced a major reorganization on Friday as the company’s CEO of AGI deployment, Fidji Simo , takes medical leave to focus on her health.
OpenAI president Greg Brockman will handle the product teams in Simo’s absence.
Simo’s previous title was CEO of applications.
Simo is expected to take “several weeks” of leave according to her internal post.
In his new role, Lightcap will be in charge of the company’s forward-deployed engineers, which embed within enterprise organizations and help integrate OpenAI’s technology, among other duties.
OpenAI will begin searching for a new CMO, Simo said.
The company is also looking for a chief communications officer to replace Hannah Wong, who left her position in January .
Chris Lehane has taken over as the leader of the communications team in the interim.
“We have a strong leadership team focused on our biggest priorities: advancing frontier research, growing our global user base of nearly 1 billion users, and powering enterprise use cases,” said an OpenAI spokesperson in a statement.
“We're well-positioned to keep executing with continuity and momentum.”
Simo joined OpenAI in August 2025, where she took over many of the company’s consumer-facing products, including ChatGPT, Codex, and the social-video app Sora.
She recently shuttered the Sora app and told staff that the company needed to cut side projects and refocus around its core products.
The decision comes as OpenAI eyes an IPO as soon as this year.
The company recently raised $122 billion in the largest funding round the tech industry has ever seen, which valued the company at $852 billion.
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