Greg Brockman
Greg Brockman is an OpenAI cofounder and its president. His early public projects involved software systems at Harvard and MIT. He joined Stripe in 2010 and later became its chief technology officer, with work spanning infrastructure, hiring, and team management. OpenAI's 2015 founding announcement named him CTO. His OpenAI work included team projects such as OpenAI Five, which played Dota 2, and the API that gave developers access to language models. OpenAI's June 2026 chip announcement identifies him as president and describes work with Broadcom on inference hardware. The announcement concerned engineering samples and plans for the chip.
Timeline
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2010
Joining a small payments company
Brockman joined Stripe as an engineer in 2010.
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2013–2014
Growing into technical leadership
In 2014, he became CTO and worked with an engineering leader as his responsibilities expanded.
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2015
Helping start an AI laboratory
OpenAI’s founding announcement names Brockman as CTO and identifies his previous Stripe role.
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2019
A team learns to play Dota
Brockman lists OpenAI Five among his projects.
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June 2026–today
The computing stack reaches chips
OpenAI and Broadcom announce the Jalapeño inference chip and name Brockman as president and co-founder.
Sources and credits
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