OpenAI's first product was its API for developers, not ChatGPT, according to Sherwin Wu.
“the original product for, uh, from OpenAI actually was not ChatGPT, it was a B2B product. It was, uh, the API we were catering towards developers.”
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Sherwin Wu describes OpenAI's mission as building AGI and distributing its benefits to everyone.
“mission obviously is to build AGI, uh, which is pretty hard, uh, in and of itself, but also to distribute the benefits of it to everyone”
Sherwin Wu says ChatGPT is about the fifth largest website in the world.
“I think, like, the fifth largest website in the world”
Sherwin Wu says OpenAI released a new snapshot of the real-time model at general availability, with improvements informed by T-Mobile.
“the last, uh, real-time, uh, the real-time GA last last week, we actually released a new snapshot of the GA snapshot.”
OpenAI did a custom on-premises deployment at Los Alamos National Laboratory on a supercomputer called Venado, according to Sherwin Wu.
“we actually did a custom on-prem deployment with them onto one of their supercomputers called, uh, Venado.”
The model deployed at Los Alamos was OpenAI's reasoning model o3, installed on an air-gapped supercomputer.
“to actually bring one of our reasoning models, o three, um, into their laboratory, into an air-gapped, you know, supercomputer Venado”
Sherwin Wu says the Los Alamos deployment is shared remotely with other national labs such as Lawrence Livermore and Sandia.
“it's actually being shared, uh, between Los Alamos and some of the other labs, uh, Lawrence Livermore, uh, Sandia”
Sherwin Wu says GPT-5 Pro can solve hard problems in one try but may take around ten minutes to respond.
“you throw it to GPT five Pro, and, uh, it just, like, one-shots it, is is pretty crazy. But the trade-off here is you're you're you're waiting for ten minutes.”
Some customers found GPT-5 too terse because they reused old prompts begging for brevity, and removing them fixed it, according to Sherwin Wu.
“And so just by removing the extra prompts, uh, around being concise, the model behaved in a much better way”
Sherwin Wu distinguishes OpenAI's Codex Cloud coding product inside ChatGPT from the Codex CLI tool.
“I'm talking about our, uh, coding product within ChatGPT, which is the Codex Cloud offering, and then also Codex CLI.”
OpenAI held its first Dev Day in November 2023.
“the very first Dev Day, 2023, uh, November.”
Sherwin Wu says he joined OpenAI in September 2022, before ChatGPT launched.
“the first one was right when I joined the company in September 2022.”