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President and Co-founder, OpenAI
Greg Brockman is OpenAI’s president and co-founder, with a background in engineering and AI research infrastructure. He was named its CTO at the organization’s 2015 launch after serving as Stripe’s CTO. His contributions include OpenAI Gym, Universe infrastructure and the OpenAI Five research report. OpenAI’s 2022 leadership update connected his presidency with coding and company strategy; a 2026 official statement confirms his continuing title.
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Greg Brockman is OpenAI’s president and co-founder, with a background in engineering and AI research infrastructure. He was named its CTO at the organization’s 2015 launch after serving as Stripe’s CTO. His contributions include OpenAI Gym, Universe infrastructure and the OpenAI Five research report. OpenAI’s 2022 leadership update connected his presidency with coding and company strategy; a 2026 official statement confirms his continuing title.
- Organization
- OpenAI
- Current role
- President and co-founder
- Earlier role
- CTO of OpenAI at its 2015 launch
- Previous company
- Stripe, former CTO
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Returns as OpenAI President
OpenAI announced that Brockman was returning as president as Sam Altman returned as CEO and a new initial board took shape after the leadership disruption.
Source: OpenAI: Sam Altman returns as CEO and Brockman returns as President ↗Takes the President role
OpenAI announced Brockman’s move to president, explaining the role through his coding contributions and company strategy. The announcement described training flagship systems as his focus at that time.
Source: OpenAI: leadership team update ↗Co-authors the OpenAI Five report
Brockman co-authored the technical report on OpenAI Five, describing large-scale reinforcement learning and the system that defeated Dota 2 world champions Team OG in April 2019.
Source: OpenAI: Dota 2 with large scale deep reinforcement learning ↗Contributes core infrastructure to Universe
OpenAI released Universe for training and evaluating agents across computer tasks, including games and websites. Its contributor credits list Brockman among the core-infrastructure team.
Source: OpenAI: Universe and contributor credits ↗Co-authors the OpenAI Gym beta announcement
Brockman co-authored the announcement of OpenAI Gym’s public beta, a toolkit of environments and shared interfaces intended to develop, compare and reproduce reinforcement-learning research.
Source: OpenAI: OpenAI Gym Beta ↗Launches OpenAI as its CTO
OpenAI’s founding announcement identified Brockman as CTO, previously CTO of Stripe. He co-authored the launch statement with Ilya Sutskever and the OpenAI organization.
Source: OpenAI: Introducing OpenAI ↗
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