Greg Brockman
President & Co-founder, OpenAI. On 5 shows, 8 appearances. The Shows tab opens the full record on each.
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Greg Brockman co-founded OpenAI in 2015, initially serving as Chief Technology Officer and later President, where he oversees technical infrastructure and scaling for flagship models and tools like ChatGPT. Prior to OpenAI, he joined Stripe as an early employee in 2010 and served as its first CTO until 2015.
5shows
8appearances
198statements
36resolved
32supported
1contradicted
89%fully supported
188said about them ↓ Everything Greg Brockman said on any show that made the record, most notable first. Each card names its show and opens the statement there.
Brockman: Elon, Sam, Ilya, and I Agreed OpenAI Needed For-Profit Structure
“Elon, Sam, Ilya, and I all agreed. That the only path forward for OpenAI, the only path to achieve the mission, was to create a for-profit entity associated with OpenAI of some form. And so we were committed to that direction, and that is something that we kne…”
Brockman: OpenAI Model Solved Navier-Stokes Millennium Problem by Finding Singularity
“Today we announced that our model had solved the Navier-Stokes problem that we found a counter-example or a sort of proof that you can actually that these theoretical equations do have a singularity or kind of breakdown under
Certain circumstances.”
Brockman: Frontier AI models are solving unsolved math and physics problems
“These models are now solving unsolved math problems and physics problems, right? Really helping people be able to achieve things they couldn't otherwise.”
Brockman: OpenAI board gave zero explanation when firing Altman and removing Brockman
“I was told that the board has decided That Sam would be removed, and effectively the message that I got was the same messaging that was in the public post, and I asked if I could have any more information. I was told no, not right now, and I pressed on that ma…”
Brockman: OpenAI Has Definitive Line of Sight to AGI in 2026
“And I think that we have definitively answered that question of it's, it is going to go to AGI. Like we see line of sight and that it is at this point, we have line of sight to these much better models that are coming this year.”
Brockman: AGI Capable of Any Computer Task Will Arrive Within Years
“I think it's extremely clear that we are going to have AGI within the next couple years in a way that is still going to be jagged, but that the floor of task will just be almost for any intellectual task of how you use your computer. The AI will be able to do …”
Brockman: AI models are now solving unsolved math and physics problems
“These models are now solving unsolved math problems and physics problems, right?”
Brockman: No layer of the AI stack will lose value capture
“Well, look, I don't think that there's any layer of the stack here that is going to just kind of be removed from the value chain. I think that these things multiplied together.”
Brockman: Predicting Einstein's Next Words Requires Intelligence Equal to Einstein
“On the one hand, just predicting what comes next sounds like a pedestrian task, but if you really can predict the next word out of Einstein's mouth, you are at least as smart as Einstein.”
Brockman: OpenAI models recently resolved an open quantum physics problem
“If you look at math and physics, we now are solving open math problems. We're solving Open physics problems and actually have resolved this particular physics problem recently in quantum physics in the opposite way that the community expected.”
Brockman: OpenAI hides chain of thought to preserve faithfulness and prevent distillation
“So there's two reasons. One is to think about distillation, but the second, in some ways more important, is that we had this insight when we first developed the reasoning paradigm that it gives us a interpretability mechanism we had not been anticipating, beca…”
Brockman: OpenAI competitors are struggling with compute availability
“I mean, I think our competitors are not having a good time on compute, let me put it that way.”
Brockman: Claims that OpenAI data centers consume massive water are misinformation
“Like a good example is data centers and water usage. Like that, that's something that people talk about a lot, but actually our data centers use incredibly little water, right? That's actually misinformation that they use a lot.”
Brockman: Competitors Scrambled Too Late for Compute When None Remained Available
“I think that what we have seen is that for other players, that they kind of realized that probably late last year and started scrambling to see what compute is available, and there really wasn't any”
Brockman Confirms Contribution to MAGA Inc. Alongside Bipartisan PAC Donations
“So the way I look at this, so my wife and I made that donation. We've donated to bipartisan super PACs as well.”
Brockman: Scaling neural nets will unlock qualitatively new behaviors
“And I think that what that's going to unlock is you're going to be able to scale up these models and you're going to see qualitatively different behaviors from what you've seen so far.”
Brockman: Advanced AI Models Bring Curing Diseases Much Closer to Reality
“And I think that talking about curing diseases and new medicines we're going to be able to develop, all of that starts to become much more real when you have models that are at this level of assistance and capability.”
Brockman: 300 million people use ChatGPT for health queries weekly
“If you look at how many people use Chat for Health, three hundred million people every single week. With health queries, right?”
Brockman: OpenAI reached computer-use parity with Astra
“So if you have an AI that can operate that way, and even from the very beginning of OpenAI, we had a dream that one day we could create such an AI, it becomes able to help you across everything that you would be able to do with a computer yourself. And so I th…”
Brockman: The ideal AI product will have almost no interface
“And I think that the question of what's the interface you want, what is the product that you want, is what we spend a lot of time thinking about. And the answer is you want almost no interface. You want no product. Right. You want this to be like, what's the i…”
Brockman: Model scaling anomalies always stem from implementation bugs, not limits
“Every time we've kind of run into a like, oh, this isn't quite scaling the way we expect, it's we have a problem. We have a bug that our math wasn't quite right, that, oh, our implementation Isn't quite matching the math, whatever the thing is.”
Brockman: AI Compute Demand Will Outstrip Supply, Selling Out Every Provider
“I do think there's a bit of an attractor state where just like from a business model perspective, every provider sells out all their compute. Right. I think that is just like the world that we're heading towards, where there just is not going to be enough comp…”
Brockman: OpenAI has invested in custom chip program for years
“For example, we've been investing in our own chip program now for multiple years and super exciting progress. Like, you know, we'll we'll we'll have more to announce. I actually pretty soon.”
Brockman: Current frontier AI intelligence will become mundane and cheaper within a year
“I think frontier intelligence will always be something that is going to be, you know, it's always going to be the priciest thing. But I think that a year from now, that level of intelligence is going to feel pretty mundane and like, you know, going to be much …”
The other half of the tape: Greg Brockman's own voice is left out of every number here. Other people bring the name up 179 times in 81 episodes across the shows. 9 statements on the record name them. every mention, with the transcript →
Who brings them up most Alex Kantrowitz 53John Coogan 17Shawn Wang 12Garry Tan 9M.G. Siegler 6Spooks (Swyx) 5Sharon Goldman 4Tyler Cosgrove 2
Statements about Greg Brockman, by other people (9)
Goldman: OpenAI Can Remain Competitive Without Altman but Creates Space for Rivals
“I think so. I mean, I don't feel like open AI was just Sam Altman. I mean, I think That you know, Greg Brockman, I think Ilya Sutskiver, I think Mira, I think there's a lot of people in place. I'm sure that there, the, that sense of mission and the product its…”
Siegler: Greg Brockman declaring AGI with Astra is purely marketing
“My general read on AGI of Greg Brockman proclaiming it with Astra is that it's full on marketing now.”
Kantrowitz: Greg Brockman previously said OpenAI was 80% toward AGI
“And, you know, earlier this year I was at OpenAI with Greg Brockman and he said that he thought the company was about 80% of the way towards AGI.”
Roy: If Brockman believed AGI had arrived, he would say it
“I don't think he thinks it's here. Otherwise, he would say it. He's a, I mean, these guys, like, Greg Brockman, they are believers. I believe they are believers. So, if they believed it, they would say it.”
Kantrowitz: Greg Brockman is effectively, though fearfully, declaring AGI has arrived
“I think that's what Greg Brockman is saying about AGI. Like, I think he's a little fearful about coming out and saying it, but the dude's in love. It's AGI, and that's effectively what he's saying in these statements.”
Alex Kantrowitz predicts Elon Musk will fail to oust OpenAI leaders
“Now, I know Musk is trying to get Musk and Sam Altman, sorry, he's trying to get Sam Altman and Greg Brockman removed from the top of opening. I don't think that's going to happen.”
Altman: AI PhD not required to work at OpenAI
“Everyone thinks they have to be an AI PhD. Not true. Neither of these guys are.”
Altman: Met co-founder Brockman while recruiting him to Stripe
“I met Greg Brockman my co-founder, OpenAI, because I was a very early investor in Stripe when I was, like, I don't know, 22 or something, and they were, like, this was before they had, you know, like, real investors that could really help them, and they said, …”
Every mention by year
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Big Technology 71
TBPN 63
Latent Space 31
the Y Combinator Startup Podcast 13
the Knowledge Project 1
2026 108 mentions in 47 episodes 2 per episode
- Sam vs Elon Trial, Coinbase Cuts 14% in AI Pivot, Digesting Meta Earnings | Diet TBPN
- GPT-6 & OpenAI’s Comeback, Hugging Face Attack Debate, Ballmer’s Scandalous Legacy
- Are AI Glasses Over? + Big Technology AI Summit Audience Questions
- OpenAI vs. Anthropic's Direct Faceoff + Future of Agents — With Aaron Levie
- AI Pioneer Jürgen Schmidhuber: AI Already Feels Pain, Loves, and Is Self-Aware
- Altman’s Testimony, AI SPV Drama, Ebay Rejects $GME Bid | Diet TBPN
- Inside the OpenAI vs. Elon Musk Courtroom
- Apple After Tim Cook, OpenAI’s New Mojo, Meta’s Internal Tracking Escapade
- 39 more episodes that year, every mention in 2026 →
2025 49 mentions in 27 episodes 2 per episode
- The State Of AI in 15 Minutes
- Scaling Test Time Compute to Multi-Agent Civilizations — Noam Brown, OpenAI
- The State of AI: A Field Trip to TBPN’s Aura Farm + Today’s Top Tech Stories | Diet TBPN
- Weekly Recap: Matthew McConaughey on AI, Nvidia x OpenAI
- Weekly Recap: Apple Sitting on $100B, Disney Enters The AI Race, Marc Andreessen, All About GPT-5
- How Does GROK Compare? (Full Analysis)
- The AI Architect: Bret Taylor
- Anthropic, Glean & OpenRouter: How AI Moats Are Built with Deedy Das of Menlo Ventures
- 19 more episodes that year, every mention in 2025 →
2024 16 mentions in 5 episodes 3 per episode
- Agents @ Work: Dust.tt — with Stanislas Polu
- How To Build The Future: Sam Altman · Y Combinator
- Inside Facebooks Secret "Red Book" (ep18)
- 0 to over $8M ARR in 2 months as a Claude Wrapper (Bolt.new, Qodo)
- Why Google failed to make GPT-3 -- with David Luan of Adept
- every mention in 2024, scene by scene →
2023 5 mentions in 1 episode
2017 1 mention in 1 episode
One line per show, most statements first. The link opens Greg's full record on that show: the calibration, argument clarity, speaking style and every statement made there.
| Show | Role there | Eps | Statements | Record | |
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| BIG TECHNOLOGYLEDGER | President & Co-founder, OpenAI | 4 | 88 | 92% 12/13 | full record on Big Technology → |
| KNOWLEDGE PROJECTLEDGER | President & Co-founder, OpenAI | 1 | 39 | 100% 9/9 | full record on the Knowledge Project → |
| LATENT SPACELEDGER | President & Co-founder, OpenAI | 1 | 32 | 67% 4/6 | full record on Latent Space → |
| Y COMBINATORLEDGER | President & Co-founder, OpenAI | 1 | 25 | 80% 4/5 | full record on the Y Combinator Startup Podcast → |
| TBPNLEDGER | President & Co-founder, OpenAI | 1 | 14 | 100% 3/3 | full record on TBPN → |