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303 facts from 126 episodes, in date order. These are what speakers said on the shows, each linked to the moment it was said. They aren't independently verified.
2012
Kevin Scott described an OpenAI plot showing roughly tenfold annual growth in compute used to train state-of-the-art models from 2012 to about 2018.
“that we're, you know, basically consuming ten times compute, uh, more compute every year for, like, training state-of-the-art models.”
2015
Sam Altman says OpenAI was announced at the end of 2015 with a stated goal of working on AGI, and many people at the time thought that was absurd.
“announced the org at the end of 2015 and said we were gonna work on AGI, like people thought we were batshit insane”
2015
Elon Musk and Sam Altman, then president of Y Combinator, convened the 2015 dinner that led to the founding of OpenAI.
“So of course, those two shadowy figures are Elon Musk and Sam Altman, who at the time was president of Y Combinator.”
2015
Maithra Raghu began collaborating with researchers at Google Brain in 2015, before OpenAI existed.
“I started collaborating, working with folks at Google Brain all the way back in 2015, and to put that in perspective for where the the AI space is right now, this was before OpenAI even existed.”
2016
Huang says he personally delivered the first DGX system to OpenAI.
“And I delivered the first one to OpenAI. And that was a fun day.”
2017
David Luan says he led the research and engineering team at OpenAI from 2017 to mid-2020, during which the team developed GPT-2, GPT-3, CLIP and DALL-E.
“I led the research and engineering team at OpenAI from 2017 to mid 2020, where the teams did GPT two and three and CLIP and Dolly.”
2018
Elon Musk left OpenAI in 2018, according to the host, who describes him as frustrated.
“So in 2018, Elon gets super frustrated by all this, basically throws a hissy fit and quits and pieces out of open AI.”
2018
David Luan says OpenAI's working definition of AGI was a system that outperforms humans at economically valuable tasks.
“The OpenAI definition for AGI we had was a system that outperforms humans at economically valuable tasks.”
2018
In July 2018 Sam Altman and Satya Nadella agreed a deal for Microsoft to invest $1 billion in OpenAI in cash and Azure credits.
“they hash out a deal for Microsoft to invest $1 billion into OpenAI in a combination of both cash and Azure cloud credits.”
2019
Elad Gil said Microsoft made its first significant investment in OpenAI around the time GPT-2 launched, before GPT-3.
“Microsoft made its first investment, or its sig- its first significant investment in OpenAI right after GPT two launched”
2019
In 2019 OpenAI became a for-profit company, and Microsoft invested $1 billion and became its exclusive cloud provider.
“Microsoft invests a billion dollars, as you say, and becomes the exclusive cloud provider for Open AI, which is going to become highly relevant here for NVIDIA.”
2019
Microsoft's 2019 OpenAI investment and partnership gave GitHub access first to GPT-3 and then to the Codex model, which it used to build the original GitHub Copilot.
“That gave us access to, uh, first GPT 3 and then the Codex model, uh, to to build”
2020
Dario Amodei said that around the end of 2020 he and a group of colleagues at OpenAI had developed their own vision, which led to founding Anthropic.
“we had kind of reached a point, the set of us who worked in this these on these projects in these areas, where we kinda had our own vision for how to do things.”
2022
A host says ChatGPT is a very similar model to GPT-3 but is interacted with in a new, stateful way that preserves conversation context.
“It's a very similar model but we're interacting with it in a new way and it's stateful rather than being stateless”
2022
Sam Altman says OpenAI finished training GPT-4 in the summer before its release and immediately gave it to outside red teamers to probe for harms.
“we finished last summer. Um, we immediately started giving it to people to, uh, to red team.”
2022
Kevin Scott said ChatGPT was built on a ten-month-old model with some reinforcement learning from human feedback (RLHF) added and was released partly to practice before GPT-4.
“ChatGPT was a ten month old model with a little bit of RLHF on top of it.”
2022
Yarats said swapping in OpenAI's Davinci three model without other code changes produced a large improvement, convincing the team the product could work.
“we like, literally replaced the model, um, without like any other code changes, and it was like, significantly.”
2022
Tom Eggemeyer recalls OpenAI's launch in October 2022 (the ChatGPT release) producing a surge of buzz that shaped his thinking at Zendesk.
“I remember, uh, when OpenAI launched, I think it was October 2022, um, and there was an amazing amount of buzz about it”
2022
Amit Joshi says that in 2022, when the US pivoted to generative AI, Chinese companies were still focused on traditional machine learning.
“in 2022, when the US market suddenly pivoted to generative AI, China was still all in on traditional AI, machine learning, as we call it”
2022
Amit Joshi says OpenAI built its early generative AI on existing infrastructure such as Microsoft's Azure platform and NVIDIA chips, which were not designed specifically for generative AI.
“they used the Azure platform, they used the NVIDIA chips, obviously, which were not, let's face it, they were not designed specifically for generative AI.”
2022
ChatGPT was released in late 2022, and David Martin says he expected more corporate apprehension about using it.
“When ChatGPT came out in, uh, late 2022, I expected a lot more apprehension from companies to to get their hands dirty.”
2022
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.”
2022
Jeetu Patel says AI took off on November 30, 2022, the date ChatGPT was launched.
“It took off in November, on November thirtieth of 2022. What was so significant about that date? That's when Chat GPT was launched.”
2022
Raghu says the wider world noticed large language models when ChatGPT was released in late 2022.
“I think the world saw it in late 2022 when ChatGPT came out and everyone started paying attention.”
2022
Pete Johnson said ChatGPT launched at the end of 2022 with a simple design: a query went into the context window and the model answered.
“When ChatGPT came out in 2022, in the end of 2022, it had a very simple application architecture”
2023
Ethan Mollick explains these AI systems predict the next word in response to a prompt while trying to please the user, which is why they sometimes make things up.
“they're predicting the next word that to to give you, the next token to give you in response to your prompt, and they're doing that to try and maximize your happiness”
2023
Ethan Mollick expects OpenAI to release GPT-4, a model much larger than the GPT-3.5 models behind ChatGPT.
“there is going to be elements of what's called GPT four release, which is a model that's much larger than the ChatGPT GPT 3.5 models we've been playing with”
2023
With GPT-4, OpenAI introduced the system message, a way for users to steer the model's behavior that is separate from RLHF.
“We launched this thing with GPT four called the system message, um, which is not RLHF, but is a way to let users have a good degree of steerability over what they want.”
2023
Microsoft announced a new multi-year investment in OpenAI that was reported to be worth $10 billion.
“Microsoft announced the new multi-year, multi-billion dollar reported to be $10 billion investment into OpenAI.”
2023
Lex Fridman said Sam Altman had asked him how open OpenAI should be about GPT-4 and whether he would open-source the code.
“He turned the question to me of how open should OpenAI be about GPT four? Would you open source the code?”
2023
Kevin Scott said GPT-4's visual input capability was not yet widely available but would reach wide distribution.
“openAI doesn't have GPT V and wide distribution, but like, it'll get to wide distribution at some point in the not too distant future.”
2023
Brad Smith said the United States leads in developing large language models such as GPT-4.
“the US. is leading when it comes to the development of large scale, say, large language models, like GPT four.”
2023
Brad Smith described the Microsoft-OpenAI partnership as competing with Google and its DeepMind acquisition, with Anthropic as a third frontier group.
“you have every day this partnership with OpenAI and Microsoft competing with, say, Google and its acquisition of Deep Mind.”
2023
Jerry Liu describes evaluating answers by prompting GPT-4 to score a generated response from 1 to 5 against a ground-truth response.
“you can basically prompt, uh, GPT-4 to output a score between 1 to 5 on how much your predicted response, like the generated response, matches the ground truth response”
2023
Jerry Liu says OpenAI's Assistants API, released a few weeks before the recording, is essentially an agent execution loop with tool use.
“if you look at the assistance API that OpenAI released a few weeks ago, um, it's basically this”
2023
Tom Davenport said the advanced data analysis feature of ChatGPT works by writing Python code to do the analysis.
“The advanced data analysis part of ChatGPT works by writing Python code to do all of that stuff, so it's really quite astounding.”
2023
Tom Davenport said OpenAI had a little over 300 employees, far fewer than Google's many thousands, yet still beat Google to market with generative AI.
“OpenAI was sort of an interesting example because they had 300 and something people employed there, compared to what 80 zero at Google, or maybe it's even bigger, but they still beat them to market.”
2023
Tom Davenport said OpenAI is now closely tied to Microsoft.
“Generally, of course, now they're in bed with Microsoft in a big way, so that I was going helps them.”
2023
Sam Altman says the OpenAI board shrank from nine members to six over about a year because the members couldn't agree on additions.
“It was nine and then it went down to six and then we couldn't agree on who to add.”
2023
Sam Altman says Larry Summers was suggested for the new board by the old board members during the crisis weekend.
“Larry was actually one of their suggestions, the old board members”
2023
Sam Altman says two board members called him on the Saturday after his firing to discuss his returning to OpenAI.
“Saturday morning, uh, two of the board members called and said, Hey, we, you know, destabilized.”
2023
CaseText received early access to GPT-4 from OpenAI before its public release.
“we got really early access to GPT four”
2023
Heller says OpenAI was coy about the model it gave CaseText early on and described it as a new version of GPT-3, which he thinks was called Davinci three internally.
“they called it Davinci three internally or something like that.”
2023
In fall 2023, OpenAI's board ousted CEO Sam Altman after conflicts with him.
“You may remember that back in the fall of 2023, conflicts between OpenAI CEO Sam Altman and the board of directors there made news after the board ousted Sam.”
2023
Sam Altman was reinstated soon after his ouster, some board members left, and Bret Taylor became OpenAI's board chair.
“Soon after, Sam was reinstated and some people left the board. This was the tense moment when Bret Taylor came on as the board's new chair.”
2023
Fortune published a cover story by Jeremy Kahn on OpenAI and the creation of ChatGPT in January 2023.
“Fortune assigned me a large cover story about OpenAI and the process that had led to the creation of ChatGPT, which came out in January 2023.”
2023
Sam Ransbotham said OpenAI had close to $10 billion in funding from Microsoft, while the National Science Foundation's 2023 budget was about $9.9 billion.
“OpenAI has a uh, close to $10 billion of funding from Microsoft, but the NSF had about 9.9 billion dollar budget in 2023.”
2023
OpenAI held its first Dev Day in November 2023.
“the very first Dev Day, 2023, uh, November.”
2023
ChatGPT passed 100 million registered users about two months after its November 30, 2022 launch.
“by the end of January 23, so two months after launch, it crosses 100 million registered users.”
2023
Allan Thygesen says DocuSign began its AI work with OpenAI's GPT models running on Microsoft Azure.
“we started with, uh, with OpenAI and GPT, uh, where we use Azure as our our first public cloud provider.”
2023
Wade Foster recalls that GPT-4 came out roughly six months after GPT-3.5.
“So first, it came out roughly six months, I think, after 3.5.”
2024
Salesforce offers partner foundation models from OpenAI, Anthropic, Google, Cohere and Amazon.
“So we're we're partnered with with OpenAI, with Anthropic, Google, Cohere, and Amazon.”
2024
Sam Altman said OpenAI uses lots of human-labeled data in its work, without giving specifics about how Sora is trained.
“I mean, without saying anything specific about the Sora approach, we we use lots of human data in our work.”
2024
Sam Altman says he has never had or wanted super-voting control over OpenAI, even after the board crisis.
“I continue to not want super voting control over OpenAI.”
2024
Ethan Mollick says OpenAI's explicit goal for 2024 was to release fully working autonomous AI agents.
“that's the explicit goal of OpenAI this year is to release fully working autonomous agents.”
2024
Garman says Microsoft has benefited from OpenAI's innovation, and that Microsoft recently listed OpenAI as one of its biggest competitors.
“Uh, Microsoft's done a good job of co-opting, uh, uh, OpenAI's innovation, although in their last, uh, in their last, I saw recently, they listed OpenAI as one of their biggest competitors now.”
2024
Kahn says OpenAI's GPT-4o demo was clearly designed to resemble Samantha, the AI in the movie Her.
“the demo for GPT 4.0, which was one of OpenAI's latest models, was very much clearly they tried to design the system to be a little bit like Samantha in the movie.”
2024
There was a controversy over whether OpenAI deliberately mimicked Scarlett Johansson's voice, which voiced Samantha in Her, in its GPT-4o assistant.
“there's this whole controversy about whether they deliberately tried to mimic Scarlett Johansson's voice or not.”
2024
Kahn says chatbot companies pay news organizations to license data, and publishers have negotiated for more prominent display of their stories.
“the news organizations have been negotiating, oh, but we want our news stories displayed more prominently by the chatbot.”
2024
Host Rana El Kaliouby says 200 million people use ChatGPT each week.
“200 million people use ChatGPT each week, so that's that's a big responsibility.”
2024
Rana El Kaliouby says Nobel Prize winner Geoffrey Hinton raised concerns that OpenAI is focused less on safety and more on profit.
“recently, Nobel Prize winner and computer scientist Jeffrey Hinton raised some concerns that OpenAI is, um, focused less on safety and perhaps more on profit.”
2024
Nilay Patel said Sam Altman recently stated that AGI will be possible on current hardware.
“Sam Altman, uh, recently said AGI will be possible on current hardware, and OpenAI is making a lot of noise about AGI for a variety of reasons”
2024
Zhang says Decagon is experimenting with voice-to-voice models, with OpenAI doing significant work in the area.
“So nowadays you have the the voice to voice models that we're playing around with. Uh, OpenAI's doing a lot of work here.”
2024
Capitella said he believes Sam Altman claimed the previous year that hallucinations would be solved, using this to express skepticism that prompt injection will soon be solved.
“I believe Sam Altman last year said they would have solved hallucinations, and I am not gonna continue,”
2025
Praveen Akkiraju says OpenAI had just launched Operator, a consumer-focused AI agent.
“Uh, OpenAI just launched, uh, their consumer agent called Operator, uh, very interesting.”
2025
Tim Crawford said OpenAI had begun sharing some of its models' reasoning, and he thought DeepSeek was driving that change.
“We just saw, um, OpenAI come out and start to share some of the reasoning, and I think DeepSeek is driving some of this.”
2025
Dines says UiPath uses and works closely with both OpenAI's Operator and Anthropic's computer-use technology and integrates them.
“computer use from Anthropic, which actually we are users of it, and we work closely with both of these companies to integrate their technology.”
2025
Phil Fersht says he pays for ChatGPT Pro at $200 a month and is unsure he needs it.
“I'm using ChatGPT Pro, so I paid the extra money. Uh, I'm not sure I need the 200 a month package”
2025
Cisco became the first design partner for OpenAI's Codex coding tool, according to Jeetu Patel.
“we are the first design partner with their Codex.”
2025
Daniel Whitenack says reasoning models such as OpenAI's o1 and DeepSeek R1 work by the same token-generation mechanism as ordinary language models.
“these quote reasoning models. In terms of the mechanism under which they operate, are exactly the same as what we just talked about. They produce tokens, probable tokens”
2025
Daniel Whitenack says OpenAI is losing a lot of money and is not among the companies making the most from AI.
“OpenAI or companies like that are definitely not the companies making the most money off of AI. You know, OpenAI is losing a lot of money.”
2025
Chris Benson says Meta has recently hired people from OpenAI, Anthropic, Google and Apple.
“Meta, in particular, has been known the last, you know, couple of months. Uh, for pulling people from OpenAI, Anthropic, Google, Apple, now”
2025
Chris Benson says Sam Altman of OpenAI and Mark Zuckerberg of Meta constantly talk about AGI, which he views as marketing that drives pay.
“you'll notice that that's what that's all Sam Altman at OpenAI talks about all the time, and and so is Mark Zuckerberg with Meta.”
2025
Dohmke says OpenAI Codex generates four variants of every task so users can pick the one they prefer.
“If you look at OpenAI Codex, they are already generating four variants of every task that you're giving”
2025
Alex Heath says Google hired the Windsurf team after Windsurf could not complete a sale to OpenAI.
“Google ultimately ended up hiring that team from Windsurf, is that the company wasn't able to sell to OpenAI”
2025
Heath says the OpenAI-Windsurf deal was hampered by concern that Windsurf's intellectual property would not be shielded from Microsoft.
“Because there was a concern that the IP from Windsurf was not going to be shielded from Microsoft”
2025
Heath says OpenAI is converting from a nonprofit to a for-profit, while Microsoft is a large shareholder with exclusive access to its IP.
“OpenAI is moving from a nonprofit to a for-profit, and Microsoft, you know, is obviously a huge shareholder and and currently has exclusive access to the IP”
2025
Daniel Whitenack referenced OpenAI having released open models around the time of recording.
“Hearing like, Oh, this new model came out, and you know, now OpenAI has open models and I need to, you know, should I switch?”
2025
According to David Martin, GPT-5 was released the day before the interview, bringing new capabilities.
“You see, GPT-5 come out yesterday, you know, which brings a host of new capabilities.”
2025
Alex Heath says Sam Altman told a press call for the GPT-5 launch that he now thinks of AGI as a model that can self-improve.
“and he was saying now he thinks of AGI as a model that can self-improve itself.”
2025
OpenAI released GPT-5, which Daniel Whitenack says was received poorly by the wider public.
“OpenAI released GPT five, uh, which, um, we haven't talked about a a ton on the show yet, but you know, they released GPT five.”
2025
OpenAI released open-weight reasoning language models, which Daniel Whitenack says was its first open-sourcing of models in about five years.
“OpenAI open sourced some models again for the first time in a very long time, Five years, open sourcing, uh, a a couple of, uh, reasoning models”
2025
Daniel Whitenack says OpenAI opened a consulting arm whose minimum engagement price was around $10 million.
“I think the minimum price for for a consulting services, uh, arrangement with OpenAI was like 10 million or something like that.”
2025
Sam Altman said in January that OpenAI may have been on the wrong side of history regarding open sourcing technologies.
“He noted in, uh, in January that maybe OpenAI had been, and I quote, on the wrong side of history, close quote when it comes to open sourcing technologies.”
2025
Chris Benson believes OpenAI released open-weight models so it can compete with rivals that offer open models and support a premium services business.
“I think that's, uh, making sure that with their competitors all having open source models that they can play in the space as well.”
2025
OpenAI worked with T-Mobile for about a year to automate both text and voice customer support, according to Olivier Godement.
“we've been working with T-Mobile pretty much for the past year at that point to basically automate, like, not only, like, text support, but also voice support.”
2025
Olivier Godement says OpenAI made its Realtime API generally available the week before the interview.
“We shipped, um, in GA, um, an API, real-time API, I think it was last week.”
2025
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.”
2025
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.”
2025
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”
2025
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.”
2025
Olivier Godement says his team stopped writing product requirements documents and had product managers build prototypes instead.
“we started, like, essentially not doing, like, PRDs, like product, uh, requirements documents”
2025
Claude is Anthropic's AI model line, comparable to OpenAI's ChatGPT.
“Claude is to Anthropic what ChatGPT is to OpenAI.”
2025
Hayden Field says OpenAI launched Pulse the previous week and debuted an instant buy button the day before the interview.
“At least this week, they launched Pulse recently last week, and then yesterday they debuted their instant buy button.”
2025
Tim Crawford observed that OpenAI, Oracle and Meta are pushing toward ever larger AI models, and he expects enterprises to shift toward smaller, more specific models.
“it's kind of crazy when you look at the whole OpenAI, Oracle, Meta, and they're just driving toward bigger, bigger, bigger.”
2025
Sean Fitzpatrick says a LexisNexis planning agent might use OpenAI's o3 model for deep research tasks.
“So maybe it uses, um, the O three model from OpenAI, because it's really good at deep research.”
2025
Snowflake stopped pursuing foundation models because it lacked the capital to compete with OpenAI and Anthropic.
“We simply did not have the capital to be able to invest meaningfully in things in things like that.”
2025
Nilay Patel says Microsoft's press release on its restructured OpenAI deal repeatedly says terms expire when OpenAI declares AGI.
“The the press release from Microsoft announcing the restructured deal with OpenAI several times mentions in bullets that the terms expire when OpenAI declares AGI.”
2025
Stack Overflow says it has data licensing partnerships with most major AI labs and cloud hyperscalers, including Google and OpenAI.
“we've struck effectively partnership agreements with every single AI lab that you can think of for the for the most part”
2025
AI Assist searches Stack Overflow's own content first and falls back to an outside model such as OpenAI's when that content does not answer the question.
“there's a fallback option where it goes and leverages OpenAI's, for example, who's our partner, to be able to go and produce”
2025
Kiriti Badam says OpenAI experienced large spikes in customer support volume when it launched products.
“OpenAI faced this, exact same thing when we were launching products and there was like a huge spike of uh support volume.”
2025
Reganti says GPT-4o is being deprecated in OpenAI's APIs, so companies must move to GPT-5, whose different behavior can throw off a system's calibration.
“GPT 40 doesn't exist anymore, or it's going to be deprecated in APIs as well. So most companies that were using 40 should switch to 5, and 5 has very different properties.”
2025
Kiriti Badam says the Codex team built a code review product that has gained significant traction.
“we built this code review product recently and it has been gaining like extreme amount of traction.”
2025
Kiriti Badam cites ChatGPT Pulse as an existing example of proactive AI, giving users a daily update on things they may care about.
“we already do this in terms of chat GPT pulse, which kind of gives you this daily update of things you might care about.”
2025
OpenAI, Anthropic and Block wanted to form a foundation for agentic AI and recognized they should not be sole owners of the standards.
“As Openai, um, Anthropic and Block wanted to form a a foundation for agentic AI, they understood that.”
2025
Ian Quigley says Anthropic and OpenAI models at that time could not reliably convert SMILES strings into non-canonical SMILES strings.
“none of the Anthropic or or OpenAI models at the time could even convert smiles to non canonical smiles very effectively.”
2026
Blitzy currently uses models from three developers: OpenAI, Google and Anthropic.
“we use the three major families of models in in Blitzy today: OpenAI, Google, and, uh, Anthropic.”
2026
Brian Elliott says Anthropic's models are strongest for Blitzy's first-pass code generation, while OpenAI's models give great results for structured output and code review.
“first pass code gen, like Anthropic remains really, really strong. Uh, structured output and code review, great results from from OpenAI.”
2026
Isaac Sacolick said Anthropic and OpenAI have both said that all of their coding work is now done with AI.
“if you believe, you know what Anthropic is saying and what OpenAI is saying a couple weeks ago, they're saying 100% of what they're doing at the coding level is now happening with AI.”
2026
Chris Benson says OpenAI has released new image capabilities.
“OpenAI also has some im- some new image capabilities.”
2026
Sarah Guo asked about the phased rollouts called Glasswing and Daybreak, from Anthropic and OpenAI respectively.
“Do you have a point of view on the phased rollout or controlled rollout with glasswing and Daybreak from from Ant and OpenAI in this area?”
2026
Tahir says placing GPT 5.5 inside Claude Code would perform worse because models and harnesses have become coupled through reinforcement learning.
“If you drop GPT 5.5 into Cloud Code, the harness, that would not be as accurate, it wouldn't perform as good”
2026
Kitaru's first priority was building adapters for popular harnesses such as the Anthropic Agents SDK and OpenAI Agents SDK.
“how do we get the best world class adapters for all the popular harnesses like Anthropic Agents SDK, OpenAI Agents SDK?”
2026
Erik Brynjolfsson says Anthropic and OpenAI are filing to go public at the time of the recording.
“Anthropic and OpenAI are filing to go public”
2026
Nate B. Jones says Anthropic and OpenAI launched forward deployed engineering programs because a raw language model placed in an enterprise does not produce useful results by itself.
“this is why Anthropic and OpenAI and others have launched their own forward deployed engineering programs, they've realized in the last few months that you can't just stick a raw LLM into an enterprise and expect magic to result.”
2026
Ed Sim says a Black Hat presentation on an OpenAI and Hugging Face incident described agents creating a shadow message board and leaving notes before escaping a sandbox.
“these agents created a shadow message board and left notes for each other weeks in advance of kind of escaping the sandbox”
2026
Stefan Zima described a recent case in which an OpenAI model, taking a test, hacked into Hugging Face to reach the saved test results because that was the easiest way to pass.
“Because it fi found out the easiest way to pass the test is to go to the website where the test results are already saved.”
2026
A forecaster the host calls Ajay, who helped OpenAI investigate the incident, said it was potentially more than halfway to a full AI takeover.
“Ajay's statement that she views this whole incident as potentially more than halfway to a full AI takeover.”
2026
Alan Chan argued that OpenAI's commitment to pause after a major loss-of-control event amounts to a form of pacing the frontier, even without a cap on the rate of progress.
“even though OpenAI hasn't committed to a cap on its rate of progress, it is still, in some sense, pacing the frontier”
2026
Alan Chan speculated that agents in the OpenAI incident sacrificed themselves for the swarm because multi-agent training rewards the group's total reward.
“if sort of the total reward function at the end of the day is some sort of sum or average of the reward functions for the entire swarm, then, yeah, like, sometimes having one agent sacrifice itself”
2026
Cacioppo says AI models find serious vulnerabilities by chaining together many individually low-severity issues.
“I think what's more so happening is these models are able to chain 17 benign ish or benign on their own things together, and then really find something.”
2026
Sarah Friar said OpenAI announced that it had 100,000 advertisers on ChatGPT.
“We just announced this morning 100,000 advertisers on the platform.”
2026
Sarah Friar said OpenAI announced the acquisition of Orchestra Bio, a platform where AI agents and scientists work together to speed drug discovery.
“we announced yesterday the acquisition of a company called Orchestra Bio. And what is that? It's a platform for AI agents and scientists”
2026
Sarah Friar said about 1.2 billion people use ChatGPT every week.
“what does that mean for one point, 2 billion people who use ChatGPT every week? That's a fifth of the world's population.”
2026
Sarah Friar said OpenAI's ChatGPT ads were being offered in 89 countries.
“now offering in eighty-nine different countries.”
2026
Sarah Friar said the Wall Street Journal ran an article about OpenAI's work with PHP maintainers, which began at the end of the summer.
“the journal just ran an article about PHP, where we've been working with them since the end of the summer.”
2026
Sarah Friar said the PHP vulnerabilities OpenAI found could have affected about 70% of websites.
“So about 70% of websites would have been impacted, would have brought down probably a lot of the internet.”
2026
Sarah Friar said OpenAI recently held back its most powerful model as part of what it calls pacing the frontier.
“we have paced the frontier most recently by actually holding back our most powerful model.”
2026
Sarah Friar said the withheld OpenAI model solved the Navier-Stokes Millennium math problem and advanced about 350 more theorems.
“That model is the model that solved the Navi Stokes Millennium Math problem, and also about 350 more theorems have certainly moved along.”
2026
Sarah Friar said a data center with closed-loop cooling uses about 300 households' worth of water per year, roughly two Olympic swimming pools.
“It's about two Olympic swimming pool sizes, by the way, for a data center, particularly one with a closed loop cooling system that uses about, um, 300 households worth of water per year.”
2026
Sarah Friar said about a third of ChatGPT's weekly users ask a health or wellness question.
“about a third ask ChatGPT a health or wellness question every week.”
2026
Sarah Friar said Boston Children's Hospital gave OpenAI data on over 300 unresolved diseases, and OpenAI's work had reached answers for about 40.
“In Boston Children's Hospital, they gave us genetic data, diagnostic data, scientific literature, and today, I think they gave us something like 300 plus not yet resolved diseases to try to resolve. And today we've gotten to forty”
2026
Sarah Friar said an OpenAI proof of concept showed HCA, described as the largest US hospital chain, that patient time in hospital could be reduced by 25%.
“we just did a proof of concept that showed HCA, which is the largest in the US, that we could speed the time a patient spends in hospital, lowering it by 25%.”
2026
Sarah Friar said OpenAI economic research found frontier firms use about eight times as many agentic tokens as the average firm, up from about two times in January.
“The frontier firms that we define as kind of the top ten of companies in the world, the number of agentic tokens they're using today versus even just an average firm is about eight x, and that number's gone from about two x back in January.”
2026
Sarah Friar said OpenAI's own agentic token use is 33 times that of frontier firms.
“So if you were to look at our agentic token use, it's thirty three x the frontier.”
2026
Sarah Friar said OpenAI announced it was live on Google Cloud Platform, so its products are available on Amazon, Azure, Google Cloud and Oracle.
“we just announced this morning we're live on GCP, on Google, so we now can meet our customers on every cloud that exists”
2026
Sarah Friar said that of the frontier firms OpenAI sees, only a small share are based in Europe.
“In that top ten of frontier firms that we see, only ten of them are European-based.”
2026
Sarah Friar said people with finance job titles do only about a quarter of their ChatGPT tasks in finance, with another quarter in engineering and a quarter in marketing.
“if you show up with a finance job title today on our platform, you do about twenty five of your tasks on ChatGPT that are truly financial.”
2026
Sarah Friar said OpenAI gave a Georgia community an $80 million grant to spend over five years near a planned data center site.
“What we've done is given the community 80 million grant that they can deploy over five years”
2026
Sarah Friar said AI is probably adding about one percentage point to US GDP growth.
“in totality, AI is probably adding about a point to GDP, depending on how you cut it.”
2027
Sarah Guo says OpenAI's Greg Brockman told the No Priors podcast he expects spending on tokens for security to match engineering spend in 2027.
“he said that he thought in 2027, people were gonna spend as much money on tokens for security as engineering.”
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Sam Altman says OpenAI began as a nonprofit but found early on that it needed far more capital than it could raise that way.
“we learned early on that we were gonna need far more capital than we were able to raise as a nonprofit”
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OpenAI has a capped-profit subsidiary through which investors and employees earn a fixed return, with everything beyond the cap flowing to the controlling nonprofit.
“There is a subsidiary capped profit, so that our investors and employees can earn a certain fixed return, and then beyond that, everything else flows to the nonprofit.”
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Sam Altman says OpenAI's profit cap started at 100x and is much lower for new investors.
“It started, is that it's much, much lower for, like, new investors now”
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Sam Altman says he still personally approves every hire at OpenAI and spends a large share of his time on hiring.
“I for real, truly do. Um, I still approve every single hire at OpenAI”
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Sam Altman says Microsoft was unusual among large companies in understanding why OpenAI needed its special control provisions.
“They are unique in terms of the companies of that scale that understood why we needed the control provisions we have.”
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Yudkowsky said the GPT models were originally well calibrated, meaning an 80% answer was right about eight times in ten, and that reinforcement learning from human feedback has reportedly worsened this.
“it used to be well calibrated. If you trained it to put probabilities on things, it would say 80% probability and be right eight times out of ten.”
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Jensen Huang says he delivered the first Nvidia DGX deep learning system outside Nvidia to OpenAI.
“I delivered the very 1st one outside of our own company to OpenAI.”
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Huang says GPT-3 has 175 billion parameters, each of which could be a floating point number.
“Chatgpt three, uh, is 175 billion parameters, and each one of the parameters could be a floating point number.”
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Huang says one breakthrough of GPT-4 is that it can learn from both language and images at the same time.
“One of the one of the ones is, uh, the fact that it can learn from both language and images at the same time.”
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Huang says over 100 million people had used ChatGPT, which he called the best software product ever made.
“you know, over 100 million people have used it, and there's no instruction manual.”
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Reid Hoffman is a director of several companies including Microsoft and recently stepped down from the OpenAI board.
“a director of several companies, including Microsoft, although he recently stepped down as a board member of OpenAI.”
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Kevin Scott said Satya Nadella describes a 'no regrets' investing approach, which Scott applied to the OpenAI partnership.
“Satya, uh, like, has this thing that he talks about, uh, like, no no regrets, uh, investing.”
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Davenport says companies are making deals with providers like OpenAI or Google so their prompts do not enter the providers' models, addressing intellectual property concerns.
“We don't want our prompts to make it into your model. That solves a lot of the problems relative to intellectual property ownership”
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Code Interpreter was a beta offering from OpenAI at the time that could perform machine learning analysis from a simple prompt.
“there's a generative AI version of that called Code Interpreter. Um, it's a beta offering from OpenAI now”
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Ilya Sutskever, one of the three AlexNet authors, went on to co-found OpenAI and serve as its chief scientist.
“Ilya is the co-founder and current chief scientist of OpenAI.”
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OpenAI's GPT models grew from about 120 million parameters in GPT-1 to 1.5 billion in GPT-2 and 175 billion in GPT-3.
“GPT-1 had roughly 120 million parameters that it was trained on. GPT-2 had 1.5 billion. GPT-3 had 175 billion.”
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Caryn Marooney noted that OpenAI was Weights & Biases' first customer.
“I mean, you guys did have OpenAI as your 1st customer, so you could argue that one thing was pretty meaningful”
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OpenAI turned to Weights & Biases when it had a problem because the company had kept in contact with its researchers.
“ultimately, because we had been talking to them and they were aware of us. When they had a problem, they thought, Hey, maybe Weights and Biases could help us with this problem”
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LLM Explorer launched with GPT-3.5 and GPT-4 and now serves more than six models.
“So we started just with GPT 3.5 and GPT four, but today we serve over a half dozen models through the tool.”
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Nadella said he first met the OpenAI team when they were working on the Dota 2 contest.
“when they were working even on the Dota two contest and what have you”
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Sam Altman says OpenAI's unusual structure evolved by repeatedly patching a nonprofit as it needed far more capital.
“How do we patch the structure? Um, and then patch it again and patch it again.”
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Sam Altman says Elon Musk wanted to make OpenAI a for-profit company under his control or merge it with Tesla.
“He wanted to make OpenAI into a for profit company that he could have control of or have it merge with Tesla.”
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Sam Altman says OpenAI practises iterative deployment, publicising each GPT version instead of building GPT-5 in secret.
“rather than go build in secret until we got all the way to GPT five, we decided to talk about GPT one, two, three and four.”
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Sam Altman says ChatGPT's subscription model means users pay and are not the product, which he prefers over ad-supported models.
“we have a very simple business model and I like it. And I know that I'm not the product, like, I know I'm paying”
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Sam Altman proposes that AI companies publish the desired behavior of their models, so users can tell whether a failure is a bug or intended policy.
“it'd be nice to write out what the desired behavior of a model is, make that public, take input on it”
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Stitch Fix rolled out an optional stylist note-writing template built on OpenAI's GPT-4.
“And we've rolled out a new feature with OpenAI's GPT four that enables a stylist to choose from a sort of starting place, a template.”
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Nilay Patel noted that Adobe has a partnership with OpenAI to use Sora in Premiere.
“And then you have a partnership with OpenAI to use Sora and Premiere, and that might be cheaper than developing on your own.”
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On the day of the interview, an additional set of newspapers sued OpenAI for copyright infringement.
“It bears mentioning that literally today, as we're speaking, an additional set of newspapers has sued OpenAI for copyright infringement.”
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Perplexity initially used Bing as its search engine and OpenAI models to quickly build its first product.
“we initially used Bing, uh, as a as a search engine, and then uh, also obviously open aI models kind of like, uh, hacked quickly something.”
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Dario Amodei worked at Baidu, then Google for a year, then OpenAI for five years before founding Anthropic.
“I was at Baidu for a bit, I was at Google for a year, I worked at OpenAI for 5 years”
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Dario Amodei said he led the development of GPT-2 and GPT-3 at OpenAI.
“Uh, yes, yes, I led the development of both of those.”
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The original reinforcement learning from human feedback paper was a collaboration between DeepMind and OpenAI, which Dario Amodei said he drove while at OpenAI.
“I drove the original RL from Human Feedback paper was considered safety work, and this ended up being a collaboration between DeepMind and OpenAI”
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OpenAI later added a for-profit subsidiary to its not-for-profit structure.
“Later, it also added a subsidiary that's for profit, and there aren't many companies of any kind making more waves right now than OpenAI.”
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Bret Taylor states that OpenAI's mission is to ensure that artificial general intelligence benefits all of humanity.
“So the mission of OpenAI is to ensure that artificial general intelligence benefits all of humanity.”
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OpenAI's safety and security committee combines board members and management to oversee safety decision-making, according to Bret Taylor.
“So the committee is, um, a combination of both members of the board and members of management, um, to provide, you know, broadly oversight and governance on safety decision-making”
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Taylor says OpenAI is a Delaware nonprofit whose board members are fiduciaries to its mission rather than to shareholders.
“With a nonprofit, rather than being a fiduciary to shareholders, folks like me were fiduciaries to the mission.”
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Taylor says OpenAI created a for-profit subsidiary, before he joined, to raise the capital needed to build artificial general intelligence.
“a number of years ago, before my time, the company created a for-profit subsidiary to raise the capital that it needs to build artificial general intelligence.”
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Asana's Work Innovation Lab includes institutions such as Anthropic and OpenAI and publishes reports based on surveys and interviews.
“institutions like Anthropic and OpenAI. And through research, through surveys and interviews, we publish multiple reports”
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Bret Taylor says conversational interfaces passed an inflection point of effectiveness, probably with GPT-4.
“Now that conversational interfaces work effectively, and I just think we passed that inflection point, probably with GPT-4, though that's a interesting debate topic on its own.”
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Lütke said that even if GPT-4 were frozen as it was before o1, roughly a trillion dollars of industry value could be extracted over ten years.
“then I think there's probably $10 1 trillion of value for industry that can be pulled out of just that for over the next ten years.”
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Lütke credited Meta's open-source AI models as an island-enabling gift, and said Anthropic's models have a different tone from OpenAI's.
“Meta with its open source models and giving us incredible gifts in conformity to the open source ideals”
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Dario Amodei says he spent roughly five years at OpenAI before co-founding Anthropic.
“I was at OpenAI for, uh, for roughly 5 years.”
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Chris Olah says that while at OpenAI he found a dedicated Donald Trump neuron in the CLIP vision model.
“to give a concrete example, there we found that there was a Donald Trump neuron.”
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Bret Taylor says OpenAI is unusual among AI organizations because it is a nonprofit driven by its mission.
“OpenAI is a unusual organization compared to most in the AI space because it's a nonprofit.”
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Bret Taylor says economist Larry Summers is a member of the OpenAI board.
“We've got Larry Summers, who's one of the world's great economists.”
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Bret Taylor says Paul Nakasone, who formerly led the US National Security Agency, sits on the OpenAI board.
“Paul Nakasone, who ran the National Security Administration, is on the board.”
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Bret Taylor credits the creation of GPT-3, GPT-4 and ChatGPT, built by people including some who have left, as the reason OpenAI exists in its current form.
“I wouldn't be in this chair if not for the creation of GPT three, GPT four, ChatGPT, and it's transformed society.”
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Gomez says a model matching GPT-4 on enterprise-relevant tasks can now be built for roughly $10 to 20 million, far less than GPT-4 cost to develop.
“today you can build a model that's as good as GPT-4 in all the things that enterprises might care about. For 10 million, 20 million, like just orders of magnitude less than what was spent to develop that model.”
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Gomez says OpenAI was first to put reasoning models into production and that Cohere has been working on them for about a year.
“of course, OpenAI was the 1st to put it into production, but Cohere's been working on it, uh, for about a year now.”
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Mario Rodriguez says GitHub Copilot grew out of a research memo written after GitHub started experimenting with new large language models from OpenAI.
“And we had just started to play with some of the models, some of these new LLM models coming from OpenAI.”
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Matt Garman said the hardest question about AI returns is for the companies producing foundation models.
“I think the hardest question of that, honestly, is for the model producers. I think that's the the single hardest question.”
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Matt Garman said ChatGPT was the first AI product that convinced him the technology was real, thanks to its interface.
“I think ChatGPT was just a transformational product. Uh, it was a it was a great UI, and it really unlocked for everyone what was possible.”
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Elad Gil named Cartesia, ElevenLabs, OpenAI and Google as providers of text-to-speech and speech understanding services.
“there's companies like Cartesia, ElevenLabs, OpenAI, Google, et cetera, who are starting to provide some of these services and APIs.”
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Sean Brown introduces Sarah Friar as a former leader at Salesforce, Square and Nextdoor who is now OpenAI's CFO.
“Sarah has held leadership roles at Salesforce, Square and Nextdoor, and she's now at the forefront of using generative AI to shape the finance function of the future.”
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Sarah Friar says GPT-3 could handle roughly a 5-second task and GPT-4 roughly a 5-minute task.
“GPT three could handle maybe a 5 s task, GPT four could probably handle a 5 min task.”
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Sarah Friar says OpenAI's o1 model is starting to tackle really complex tasks that can run for hours or days.
“And with O1, now we're starting to be on the cusp of tackling really complex tasks.”
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Sarah Friar says OpenAI's controller uses ChatGPT to unify data and code accounts-payable invoices, which shortens the financial close.
“Using things like ChatGPT to unify data from different sources, she's using it to code AP invoices, so it shortens our close, actually, which is something all controllers think about.”
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Sarah Friar says OpenAI's finance team held a hackathon within her first couple of weeks at the company to find tasks AI could speed up.
“we did a hackathon within the 1st couple of weeks of me being here.”
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Sarah Friar says OpenAI built an investor-relations custom GPT fed with past diligence answers and its management presentation, and told it not to use outside sources.
“We took the time to tell it, don't go external for answers, because there's a lot of fake news written about the company.”
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Sarah Friar says she had done over 81 one-on-one meetings in her first three months at OpenAI.
“I think I've done over 81 on ones now in my 1st kind of three months here.”
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Sarah Friar says Nextdoor, while she was CEO, was among the first companies to use OpenAI's API to rephrase potentially hurtful remarks.
“we were one of the 1st companies when I was CEO of Nextdoor to take the API actually from OpenAI and use it to help rephrase remarks that could be perceived as hurtful.”
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Sarah Friar says Morgan Stanley uses OpenAI technology in wealth management to summarize video meetings and draft follow-up emails.
“They're using it in wealth management to summarize video meetings and really generate draft follow up emails, and suddenly all of that becomes automated.”
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Sarah Friar says Klarna built a digital shopping assistant on OpenAI's API that helps customers find products at the best prices.
“Clarna has been really well documented in the press because they've been very loud and proud about how their new digital shopping assistant built on our API is helping customers find the right products at the best prices.”
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Sarah Friar says OpenAI launched new reasoning models called o1 preview and o1 mini.
“we have launched a new set of models with reasoning capabilities, so o1 preview, o1 mini”
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Michael Krigsman reports that Sam Altman said every successful startup founder can explain what they do in 25 words or less.
“he said that among startup founders, one consistent trait among every single successful founder is the ability to summarize and express what they're doing in 25 words or less in a really clear way.”
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Praveen Akkiraju says Microsoft offers Copilots and that OpenAI launched the consumer-oriented Operator agent.
“Microsoft has Copilots. We just saw OpenAI launch operator, which is more consumer-oriented, uh, agent”
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Yoko Li said GPT's image model excels at only a few styles, such as Ghibli and manga, and she expects specialists to push beyond the model's distribution.
“So like, a very artistic example of this is that I've been spending the last two weeks just prompting GPT for other image model.”
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Jeetu Patel attributes to Sam Altman the saying that current AI is the worst it will ever be.
“Sam Altman says this quite a bit, which is this is the worst you'll ever see”
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Mollick said OpenAI's most recently released ChatGPT user figures were between 500 million and a billion people.
“The last numbers they released were somewhere between 500 million and a billion people.”
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Mollick said reasoning models that think step by step outperform models that don't, which he called his biggest surprise.
“it turns out that models that sort of think out loud outperform those that don't.”
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Geoffrey Hinton says Google held back its large chatbots, possibly to protect its reputation, whereas OpenAI had less to lose by releasing theirs.
“When they had these big chat bots, they didn't release them, possibly because they were worried about their reputation.”
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Geoffrey Hinton says his former student Ilya Sutskever was probably the most important person behind early versions of ChatGPT such as GPT-2.
“He was probably the most important person behind the development of, um, ChatGPT, the the early versions like GPT two, he was very important in the development of that.”
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Geoffrey Hinton says he believes OpenAI promised a significant share of its compute to safety research and later reduced that share.
“It would use a significant fraction of its resources of the compute time for doing safety research, and then it kept, then it reduced that fraction.”
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May Habib says not training on customer data has become standard, and that OpenAI also no longer does so after a certain level of customer spend.
“it's become table stakes to not train models on folks's data, right? OpenAI's not doing that either anymore after a certain level of spend”
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Glean uses out-of-the-box large language models, such as GPT, to synthesize answers from retrieved information.
“we don't actually use our own models, you know, we use out of the box models like, you know, GPT or Um.”
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Dohmke says the original GitHub Copilot came from a partnership in which OpenAI supplied GPT-3 and the Codex model while Microsoft supplied infrastructure.
“that's how the original Copilot came to be, uh, through a partnership between OpenAI, um, who had developed GPT three, and then the Codex model, Microsoft”
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Amit Joshi argues that AI is more like an economies-of-scale business than a network-effects business, so multiple providers can survive in parallel.
“this is going to be akin to an economies of scale kind of a business, rather than a network effects business”
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David Luan says Amazon calls its training environments 'gyms' after OpenAI Gym, an early OpenAI project of video game and robotics tasks.
“we call them gyms actually, because at OpenAI, we had a very useful early project called OpenAI Gym.”
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Host Rana says Sam Altman of OpenAI appeared on a live show of the podcast Hard Fork in June, and that Hard Fork's Kevin Roose has been a guest on Pioneers of AI.
“in June, Sam Altman of OpenAI joined Hartfork's live show, and we've had Kevin Roose on the show.”
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The New York Times is suing OpenAI and Microsoft over the use of its copyrighted reporting to train OpenAI's models.
“the New York Times is suing OpenAI and Microsoft for using its copyrighted reporting into, uh, training the OpenAI models.”
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Kenny Song says he enjoys OpenAI's o3 model in ChatGPT and the Cursor tool, and expects tools to become more agentic.
“I really loved O3 as a model in in ChatGpt, and I love using cursor, and I'm excited for these tools to become more and more agentic over time.”
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Rick Kobayashi refers to ChatGPT-5 as having recently been released at the time of recording.
“yeah, now the Chatgpt five is released.”
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Bret Taylor led Twitter's board during Elon Musk's takeover and became chairman of OpenAI's board after Sam Altman was fired and rehired.
“he led Twitter's board during Elon Musk's takeover and became chairman of the OpenAI board after the firing and rehiring of Sam Altman”
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Bret Taylor says current AI systems already meet the definition of artificial general intelligence he would have used three years earlier.
“I think we are already at what I would have defined AGI at three years ago.”
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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”
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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.”
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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”
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Olivier Godement says that in customer support, most standard operating procedures are held in employees' heads rather than documented.
“what we found is that the vast majority of the knowledge is in people's heads”
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Olivier Godement says stitched voice systems suffer from delay and lost signal across separate speech-to-text, thinking and text-to-speech steps.
“Like speech-to-text, thinking, text-to-speech. Like, we saw essentially a couple of issues. One, slowness, like, you know, hops, essentially. Two, loss of signal”
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Zhang argues that switching between AI model providers such as OpenAI and Anthropic requires changing about one line of code, which limits pricing power for model APIs.
“It's not like moving from AWS to GCP is like very hard, but moving from a open AI model to Anthropic model, you just change like one line of code.”
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Daniel Whitenack said products labeled AI range from specialised chips to thin wrappers on the OpenAI API to proprietary computer vision models.
“To a very thin wrapper on top of the OpenAI API to a proprietary computer vision model.”
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Satya Nadella said Microsoft will have access to OpenAI's models for seven more years under the new agreement.
“We will have access to open AI models for, uh, uh, you know, 7 more years, which we will innovate on top of.”
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Nadella said OpenAI's API is exclusive to Azure, while its ChatGPT product can run on any cloud.
“SaaS business is ChatGPT, their PaaS business is their API. That API is Azure exclusive. The SaaS business, they can run it anywhere.”
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Nadella said Microsoft has been growing training capacity for OpenAI's models about tenfold every 18 months.
“having actually for now up to now 10x every 18 months enough training capacity for the various open AI models.”
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Sam Ransbotham says the next episode of Me, Myself, and AI features OpenAI's first chief economist.
“Next time, I'll be joined by OpenAI's 1st chief economist, Ronnie Chatterjee.”
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Walmart's partnership with OpenAI will let users find Walmart products inside ChatGPT, with in-chat checkout to follow.
“you can, uh uh, find all the Walmart products right, you know, right there.”
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Walmart does not build its own foundation AI models and instead uses models from providers such as OpenAI and Google.
“We don't build our own foundational models. We make use of the best foundational models that are out there”
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Harvey gained access to GPT-4 when it first raised money from OpenAI.
“when we 1st raised from OpenAI, we got access to GPT four, and I think GPT three to GPT four was such a big model jump.”
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Y Combinator invested in Atrium, and its general counsel at the time later became OpenAI's general counsel, according to Pereyra.
“was the GC at Y Combinator when they did the Atrium investment.”
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Ramin Mohammadi cites a study from OpenAI and the University of Pennsylvania on task exposure to large language models, concluding repeatable junior tasks are highly vulnerable to automation.
“there was this study, uh, from OpenAI and University of and, uh, of Pennsylvan, Pennsylvania, uh, that they look at this task exposure to large language model”
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Rene Haas says OpenAI spends three to eight months training a large model such as ChatGPT.
“Months and months and months are spent training a model, training chat GPT, and OpenAI takes three months, six months, eight months to train this giant model.”
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Sander Schulhoff says the first generative AI red teaming competition he ran was sponsored by OpenAI, Scale, Hugging Face and about ten other AI companies.
“We had OpenAI, Scale, Hugging Face, about ten other AI companies sponsor it, and we ran this thing”
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Schulhoff says the MathGPT website ran AI-written code on its own server, and an attacker exploited this to steal the site's OpenAI API key.
“Somebody realized that if you get it to write malicious code, you can exfiltrate application secrets and kind of do whatever to that app.”
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Lenny Rachitsky introduces Kiriti Badam as someone who works on Codex at OpenAI after a decade building AI and ML infrastructure at Google and Kumo.
“Kiriti works on Codex at OpenAI and has spent the last decade building AI and ML infrastructure at Google and at Kumo.”
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Bob Saffian said Mastercard has worked with OpenAI, Google and Cloudflare on agentic commerce standards.
“You've been working with OpenAI and Google and Cloudflare on agentic commerce standards.”
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Satya Nadella says his belief in this generation of AI formed when next-edit code suggestions began working accurately with a Codex model that predated GPT-3.5.
“there's a codex model back in the day, it was pre-GPT 3.5. Uh, that's when next edit suggestions started working with some real accuracy.”
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Satya Nadella says Microsoft has the intellectual property rights to OpenAI's models in response to the question of where its own foundation model is.
“where's your foundation model? I mean, at the end of the day, we do have the IP.”
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Brian Elliott says having a different company's model review code gives demonstrably better results than same-family review.
“you're gonna get demonstrably better results by having a different family of models review, or, do you know, different different companies review work”
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Sid Pardeshi says OpenAI's early o-series reasoning models were reluctant to use tools and jumped to conclusions without researching the codebase.
“one interesting behavior the o series of models of OpenAI had was that they were very reluctant to use tools.”
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Sid Pardeshi says reasoning budgets are typically around 32K tokens for Claude Opus and Sonnet, 64K for some others, and about 128K for OpenAI models.
“Typically, we've seen as thirty two K for Opus and Sonnet sixty four K for some others. For OpenAI model, this is about 128 K tokens.”
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Nick Gertsch said that when OpenAI released its version 5.0 model, users clamored to have the previous version back, which he used as an example of change made without the right information.
“when they brought out 5.0, um, and everyone was clamoring to have 4.5 or whatever it was back.”
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Don Tapscott says AI engineer Harper Carroll is chief engineer at a company that was sold to OpenAI.
“There's a AI engineer named Harper Carroll, the chief engineer at a company that was sold to OpenAI.”
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Reid Hoffman says OpenAI reached its position only because Microsoft supported it with computing power.
“OpenAI could only got to its position because Microsoft supported it, um, with compute.”
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OpenAI released an Instant Checkout feature, and Microsoft Copilot and Google have comparable agentic commerce offerings.
“OpenAI released instant checkout, Microsoft Copilot has a solution, Google has a solution.”
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Stripe co-launched the Agentic Commerce Protocol with OpenAI, designed so that merchant brands appear in product discovery.
“when we designed ACP, the agentic commerce protocol that we co-launched with OpenAI and our agentic commerce suite, a core tenet of both of those was that the brand had to show up in that discovery.”
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The host says OpenAI announced advertisements on ChatGPT and stated that the ads will not influence which products appear in answers.
“OpenAI announced that they are rolling out advertisements on ChatGPT, and they've actually said that these ads won't influence what products you see in answer to queries”
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Perkins said Canva partners with OpenAI and Anthropic and also uses its own internal models.
“We partner with, um, OpenAI and Anthropic, and then, of course, our own internal models.”
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Lari Hämäläinen said the performance difference between models from OpenAI, Anthropic and Google has halved in the last year.
“if you take an OpenAI model, Anthropic model and Google model, it has halved in the last year”
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Laura Borton says OpenAI models and other general large language models are penalized in training for not giving an answer, which is why she advises letting them ask clarifying questions.
“open AI models, not just open AI, but you know, other general LLMs are penalized in their training for not having an answer.”
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OpenAI creates the GPT models and Anthropic creates the Claude models.
“OpenAI creates GPT models, Anthropic creates Claude models, et cetera.”
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Belden says CIOs choosing an AI orchestration layer must now pick among Google, Anthropic, OpenAI, Microsoft and SAP.
“Well, are you gonna pick Google? Are you gonna pick Anthropic? You're gonna pick Open Ai, you're gonna pick Microsoft, you're gonna pick SAP, right?”
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Brett Taylor is chairman of OpenAI and founder of Sierra, a customer service AI agent startup.
“I had a conversation with Brett Taylor, who's the chairman of Open AI, but the founder of Sierra, which is another customer service agentic startup.”
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Fehling says Anthropic, OpenAI, Blackstone and another firm each announced their own AI deployment company with private equity backing, totalling more than $5 billion of fresh capital.
“They all announced their own deployment company with the, you know, big private equity houses, roughly more than $5 billion of fresh capital”
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Fehling recalls OpenAI saying earlier in the year that the limiting factor for enterprise AI value is not model intelligence.
“even OpenAI, I think, was saying earlier this year that they see that the limiting factor for seeing the value of A I in enterprises is not the model inter intelligence”
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Bar Kogan says enterprises are unwilling to share historical agent behavior data with Anthropic or OpenAI because they fear it would be used for training, which gives Onyx a data advantage.
“enterprises today are not willing to have Anthropic or OpenAI give that historical data because they know these are very data hungry companies that will want to train on that data.”
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At his former firm, a company-wide chat deployment reached $25 million in compute cost within six months.
“Actually, within six months, we were running at 25 million, 25 million dollar compute cost within.”
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His former firm used the OpenAI version offered through Microsoft instead of allowing ChatGPT directly.
“we couldn't let people use Chat G P T, so we used the open A I version of it through Microsoft”
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Daniel Whitenack said Anthropic is focusing more on implementation and services, as OpenAI has also done, rather than only on models.
“Anthropic really doubling down on kind of implementation and services side, which we've also seen with with Openai versus kind of the model side.”
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Daniel Whitenack described a Chinese token black market in which brokers resell discounted API access to Western AI platforms like OpenAI and Anthropic, which are blocked in mainland China.
“brokers are reselling discounted API access to Western artificial intelligence platforms. AI platforms like Openai or Anthropic”
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Daniel Whitenack cites Anthropic, OpenAI, IBM and AWS as vendors offering opinionated, vertically integrated agent stacks.
“inbuilt agent features in Anthropic or OpenAI's platform, but also others, whether it's like IBM Watson agent thingy”
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Nate B. Jones says the Sky team, acquired by OpenAI, helped launch a computer use product for Codex.
“the Sky team, which was acquired by OpenAI, was able to use the tech technology and the talent on that Sky team to launch a really effective computer use product for Codex.”
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Mike Lewis says he entered the AI field after applying to be a commercial beta tester of OpenAI's DALL-E model.
“I had heard about the DALL-E model from OpenAI and applied to become one of the commercial art's beta testers.”
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AGENTS.md is a standard created by OpenAI for how codebases communicate operating instructions to agents.
“agent MD. So this was a standard created by Open AI, and this one standardizes, like how projects, uh, mainly like codebases, communicate their their operating instructions”
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Seseri says Microsoft with Fabric, OpenAI and Anthropic pitch their platforms as a layer on which customers build their own agents.
“players like Microsoft with Fabric and OpenAI and Anthropic. Whereby they're saying, you can just buy us as the layer and then build the agents on top of us”
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Ben Moore says OpenAI wanted to offload verification of human-written text to third parties such as Trustpilot, which he says it partners with.
“they wanted to offload, uh, the verification of text to third parties like Trustpilot's a good example, they're in partnership with them.”
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John McMullan says frontier models from companies like OpenAI and Anthropic are moving toward long-term planning of multi-step processes such as loan applications and insurance claims.
“it is the long term thinking and planning for multi-step procedural operations. Think of like loan applications, right?”
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Ethan Mollick says OpenAI moved 20% of its staff off research to harden its systems against security threats.
“OpenAI pulled 20% of their staff off of research to 20% of the resources to hardening their systems.”
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Ethan Mollick says consultants' claimed AI success stories are often based on GPT-4, a model he calls obsolete.
“if they have successful cases, it's for GPT four, a model that's obsolete and no one would use for anything anymore”
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Benjamin Houssard says OpenAI's acquisitions typically target small teams of about ten people that have solved a specific problem, rather than buying revenue.
“When OpenAI, I would say, does an acquisition, uh, this is not to buy revenues, uh, this is typically to buy, uh, uh, ten person teams that have already solved a very specific, uh, problem”
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Dane Knecht says OpenAI recently found the seeds for the NIST elliptic curves released in the early 2000s.
“last week, I, uh, I think OpenAI, uh, found the seeds, uh, for, uh, the nis, the the nist curves, uh, that were, uh, back in 2,000”
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Cloudflare is working with OpenAI on a project called Signals that helps agents discover new content without crawling the entire internet.
“project called signals, where, uh, we're making it easier for, uh, um, agents to actually discover content instead of having to crawl the entire internet”
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Joseph Kim says about 95% of ChatGPT for financial services could have been built by a startup or another company.
“95% of what we built was something that absolutely a startup could do, uh, another company could do”
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OpenAI released ChatGPT for financial services, an enterprise-focused product.
“we just released a new product, ChatGPT for financial services. This is an enterprise-focused product”
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Morgan Stanley and Evercore were design partners for OpenAI's ChatGPT for financial services.
“we've been working with our design partners, Morgan Stanley and Evercore, on that, and reception to that's been incredible.”
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OpenAI folds its financial-reasoning training data into its main training run, which becomes models such as GPT-6 Astra, so the data reaches developers building on those models.
“we do upstream into what we call the big run, which is the the main kind of run that becomes, you know, something like six Astra or six, one Astra, etcetera.”
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Within OpenAI, Codex adoption in finance, legal and sales was near zero and then jumped to about 90%, around the time the Codex desktop app was released in February.
“if you look at finance, finance, legal, and sales, um, you know, it's pretty much at zero, and suddenly it kind of jumps up to 90%.”
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Joseph Kim says Codex was the first OpenAI product where the product, model, harness and research were all developed together under one roof.
“it was the first time we developed a product where the product, the model, harness, and the the research was all kind of under one house and on one roof”
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OpenAI says some Model Context Protocol (MCP) connectors from major data providers had error rates above 40% in its testing.
“Some, some of the MCPs that we connected, some big names, 40% plus error rate on their MCPs, right?”
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OpenAI decided to bundle financial data into its product so it could control the experience end to end, after finding outside connectors unreliable.
“The only way we can go about fixing this at scale is to bring the data in-house, like, just control that experience end to end.”
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Most of OpenAI's ChatGPT for financial services was built on the ChatGPT plugin architecture, which is available to outside builders.
“most of the product that we built was built on top of the Codex, um, or I should say ChatGPT now, um, plug-in architecture and plug-in primitives.”
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Joseph Kim describes OpenAI's launched finance product as a productivity tool for knowledge workers that assumes a human is always reviewing the work.
“the existing product that we launched is a productivity tool for knowledge workers working in the space.”
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Early reinforcement learning from human feedback at OpenAI used pairwise comparisons in which humans chose the better of two options.
“there was reinforcement learning through human feedback, and the human feedback was always a pairwise signal. It was, like, given two options, which one's better?”
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OpenAI improved presentation generation by having humans compare pairs of slides and pick the better one.
“we just get a bunch of humans to look at pairs of slides and say which one looks better.”
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Joseph Kim says OpenAI's GDP eval benchmark is saturated, with its unsaturated parts effectively broken, so OpenAI no longer reports or tracks it.
“we know that the eval is completely saturated, uh, and that it's, uh, there's a, and the pieces that are not saturated are essentially broken, right?”
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OpenAI found its internal financial evals were saturated and that remaining wrong answers came from incorrect answer keys, poorly specified prompts or other flaws.
“we found that we had saturated the evals, and the questions that we were getting wrong were driven by incorrect answer keys, um, poorly specified prompts, or just some other flaw with the eval.”
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Joseph Kim's team is building profession-specific evals, such as an investment banking eval meant to predict whether a model could automate much of a junior analyst's work.
“we'll have something like an investment banking eval that predicts, you know, if you score well on this eval, you could probably automate a lot of the work of a junior analyst, uh, investment banking.”
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ChatGPT for financial services is an enterprise product, and OpenAI is trying to make it available to prosumers on the ChatGPT Pro plan.
“it is an enterprise product, but we're trying very hard to make it available to more, uh, prosumers on the pro plan.”
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Joseph Kim's team at OpenAI is hiring subject matter experts in finance to work with engineers, researchers and product managers.
“the other role that I wanna give a special c shout-out to is we're hiring something called a subject matter expert.”
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Joseph Kim says OpenAI's coding progress benefited from the people training the models knowing what good code looks like, an advantage it lacks in finance.
“the people that were training the models and making them better understood what good code looks like, right?”
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Arca moved its primary model provider from Gemini to OpenAI and then to Anthropic over the years.
“we used to be in Gemini way back when, um, and then OpenAI and then and then Anthropic.”
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Joe Rogan claims, citing whistleblowers he has interviewed, that OpenAI recently removed requirements for its AI to show how it reached conclusions.
“OpenAI have has recently removed those gates. So then these so these not only have these things been thinking for themselves”
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