OpenAI API

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Emberikos: OpenAI recently accelerated API model serving by 40 percent
“So we recently rolled out a change where in the API, like, those models are served, like, 40% faster, and in Codex they're served, like, a quarter fast, 25% faster.”
Alexander Emberikos Feb 21, 2026 ▶ 15:45 OpenAI's Codex Lead: Why Coding as We Know It is Over · 20VC with Harry Stebbings
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Wu: Every model released in OpenAI products is released in the API
“Every single model we've released in one of our products gets released in the API.”
Sherwin Wu Feb 12, 2026 ▶ 59:44 OpenAI’s head of platform engineering on the next 12-24 months of AI | Sherwin Wu
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Fioca: OpenAI Codex harness is open-source and the model is API-accessible
“Yes, that's open source, and the model is available in the API, so, so that's what they focus on.”
Brian Fioca Dec 26, 2025 ▶ 5:39 ⚡️GPT5-Codex-Max: Training Agents with Personality, Tools & Trust — Brian Fioca + Bill Chen, OpenAI
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Codex is the most-served coding model on the OpenAI API
“We've reached the point where actually the codex model is the most served coding model in the API as well.”
Alexander Embirikos Dec 14, 2025 ▶ 16:50 Inside OpenAI: 2026 is the year of agents, AI’s biggest bottleneck, and why compute isn’t the issue
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Sherman Wu: OpenAI API end-user reach previously exceeded ChatGPT's reach
“One thing we talk about internally sometimes is like, what does our end user reach from the API? Like it's actually, it's like really, really, it's really bright. It might even, it's hard because ChatGPT is growing so quickly, but like it, like at some point i…”
Sherman Wu Nov 28, 2025 ▶ 10:50 How OpenAI Builds for 800 Million Weekly Users: Model Specialization and Fine-Tuning
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Sherman Wu: Developer retention on OpenAI's API remains surprisingly high
“For or like the retention of people building on our API is like surprisingly high especially when people thought you could just kind of swap things around. You might have, you know, like even tools that help you swap things around. But yeah, the stickiness of …”
Sherman Wu Nov 28, 2025 ▶ 14:56 How OpenAI Builds for 800 Million Weekly Users: Model Specialization and Fine-Tuning
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Weil: GPT-4o mini is 100x cheaper via API than GPT-3.5
“The original, I think the original, I don't know, what was it, GPT 3.5 or something, was like a hundred x the cost of GPT-Foro Mini today. In, in the API. So a couple years, you've gone down two orders of magnitude in in cost. For much more intelligence.”
Kevin Weil Apr 10, 2025 ▶ 1:15:51 OpenAI’s CPO on how AI changes must-have skills, moats, coding, startup playbooks, more | Kevin Weil
STARTUP IDEAS Prediction Held up
API access will let marketers generate 100 ad variants in five minutes
“And when the API becomes generally available, this is going to be trivial. It's literally going to be like, This is your inspiration or like reference ad. These are all the different audiences, just like boom, boom, boom, smash them out and you'll have a hundr…”
Jacob Pozel Apr 2, 2025 ▶ 4:51 ChatGPT 4o replaces your $10,000 Ad Agency (Full Tutorial)
Galpin argues many software companies wrap OpenAI APIs as marketing checkboxes
“A lot of the companies I see that are using AI in their core product and are, I would call it cheating a little bit. They just integrate with the open AI API and they're not doing much really innovative inside the product with that AI, but they are using it so…”
Andy Galpin Feb 25, 2025 ▶ 12:02 27 - Driving Impact: Balancing Metrics, Culture, and AI in Business with Tree and Leaf Partners Founder Andy Galpin
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The API was OpenAI's first commercial product
“The API is actually OpenAI's first product, and the first idea for commercialization, that predates me as well.”
Michelle Pokrass Sep 17, 2024 ▶ 48:41 Building AGI with OpenAI's Structured Outputs API
SOURCERY Insight
Isford: AI stack challenges mirror early data infrastructure stack problems
“A lot of the same problems we saw with that early data stack, we're now seeing evolved or in parallel right with the AI stack today. So data reliability, like, is the data reliable? The same question people are asking for large language models, right? Or is it…”
Grace Isford Aug 23, 2024 ▶ 11:50 Computer Science is 'So Hot Right Now' | Grace Isford, Lux Capital · Sourcery with Molly O'Shea
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Murati: ChatGPT uses same core model as OpenAI API plus RLHF
“It's fundamentally the same technology, maybe with a small difference, with reinforcement learning, with human feedback. For ChatGPT, but it's fundamentally the same technology, and the reaction, and the ability to grab people's imagination, and to get them to…”
Mira Murati Sep 25, 2023 ▶ 6:45 Where We Go From Here with OpenAI's Mira Murati

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