---
id: "framework-openai-strategic-vectors"
type: "framework"
source_timestamps: ["00:06:57"]
tags: ["corporate-strategy", "product-roadmap"]
related: ["entity-openai", "claim-openai-cut-sora", "quote-brockman-models-product"]
steps: ["The Agentic Platform: underlying agent infrastructure", "Computer Work: automating desktop OS tasks", "Personal AGI: an AI that performs real-world tasks for the user"]
sources: ["s03-apps-no-api"]
sourceVaultSlug: "s03-apps-no-api"
originDay: 3
---
# OpenAI's Three Strategic Vectors

## Overview

Referencing an Ashley Vance interview with Greg Brockman (see [[quote-brockman-models-product]]), the speaker says [[entity-openai-d3]]'s entire roadmap is collapsing onto **three strategic vectors**. This explains the ruthless prioritization captured in [[claim-openai-cut-sora]].

## The Three Vectors

1. **The Agentic Platform** — Building the underlying infrastructure for agents to plan, act, and observe across tools.
2. **Computer Work specifically** — Focusing on automating tasks performed on desktop operating systems (the home of [[entity-codex-d3]] and [[concept-computer-use]]).
3. **Personal AGI** — Developing an AI that performs tasks for the user in the real world, beyond any single screen.

## How To Use This Lens

When evaluating an OpenAI announcement, ask:

- *Which of the three vectors does it serve?*
- *If the answer is 'none', expect the project to be deprioritized or cut.*

This framework is the structural reason a popular product like Sora could be shut down despite cultural momentum — see [[claim-openai-cut-sora]].

## Enrichment Caveat

Greg Brockman's public interviews emphasize agents broadly, but the precise three-vector taxonomy is not documented in public OpenAI materials. Treat it as the speaker's synthesis of Brockman's framing.