Wu: OpenAI's original product was its developer API, not ChatGPT
Sherwin Wu · Inside OpenAI Enterprise: Forward Deployed Engineering, GPT-5, and More | BG2 Guest Interview · Bg2 Pod · Sep 11, 2025 · at 2:49
Sherwin Wu, Head of Engineering for OpenAI Platform, discusses the early commercial history and B2B roots of OpenAI before the release of ChatGPT.
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“When I joined OpenAI around three years ago to work on the API, it was actually the only product that we had. [178] Sherwin Wu: So I think a lot of people actually forget this, where the original product for, from OpenAI actually was not ChatGPT. [183] Sherwin Wu: It was a B to B product. [184] Sherwin Wu: It was the API we were catering towards developers.”
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