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Godement: Reinforcement fine-tuning will become the norm for pushing AI capability frontiers
“Pushing the frontier on, like, actual capabilities, my hunch is that RFT will pretty much become the norm. Like, you know, if you are actually pushing in your field, like, you know, intelligence, like, you know, to a pretty high point, like, at some point, lik…”
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Godement: Healthcare will benefit most from AI in next 1–2 years
“Frankly, I think healthcare is probably the industry that will benefit the most from AI in the next, like, year or two.”
Opinion
Godement: The November 2023 board crisis made OpenAI culturally stronger and more resilient
“I feel it made OpenEye stronger for real now, essentially, when I look after the fact. When I look at, you know, other, like, you know, news, like departures, or, you know, whatever, like, you know, bad news, essentially, I feel the company has built, like, yo…”
Opinion
Godement: The world suffers from a massive software shortage
“I buy completely the thesis that there is a massive software shortage. Like, in the world.”
Disclosure
Godement: OpenAI PMs stopped writing PRDs to vibe-code prototypes instead
“We started, like, essentially not doing, like, PRDs, like, product requirements documents. You know, classic PM thing. You write, like, five pages, like, my product does that, et cetera. And, you know, PMs have been basically VibeCoding prototypes.”
Assertion Supported
Godement: OpenAI models power live voice support features in T-Mobile app
“And so 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. And so today, like, you know, there are like features like in the T-Mobile app That if you call, a…”
Insight
Godement: Enterprise AI Deployments Fail Without Subject Matter Experts on Tiger Teams
“The reality is, like, the standard, like, operating procedures, like the SOPs, are largely in people's heads. And so, unless you have that tiger team, like, mix of, like, technical and, like, you know, subject matter experts, Really hard, like, to get somethin…”
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Godement: Job skill sets will reconfigure toward far more people coding
“I expect that we'll see, like, way more, a sort of a reconfiguration of, like, people's, like, you know, job and skill set where way more people code. Like, you know, I expect that product managers are going to code, like, more and more, for instance.”
Disclosure
Godement: OpenAI is working with Amgen to accelerate drug development
“We've been working essentially with AppGen to essentially speed up, like the drug, like development and like communication process.”
Insight
Godement: Healthcare AI needs split into R&D data analysis and regulatory documentation
“When I look at those healthcare companies, I feel like there are two big buckets of needs. One is like Pure R&D. It's like, you know, you're seeing like a massive amount of data and like you have super smart scientists who are trying to, you know, combine, tes…”
Disclosure
Godement: GPT-5 is the first release tuned through months of customer testing
“On the behavior of the model, I think it's the first model, like, large model release, for which we have worked so closely with a bunch of customers for, like, month and month, essentially, to better understand, like, what are the concrete, like, locks?”
Disclosure
Godement: OpenAI Has Closed Part of the Intelligence Gap Between Voice and Text
“One of the feedback that we've received is, you know, Because, like, text was so much in the back on intelligence, like, people felt, like, in particular on voice, that the model was somewhat a little less intelligent, and, you know, until you actually see it,…”
