Greg Brockman

33 statements across 8 episodes · 20 bullish · 3 bearish · 5 people on the record · first statement Nov 18, 2023 by Sharon Goldman · said 71 times in 32 episodes since 2023 · across every show →

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Nov 18, 2023 positive
Prediction Not checkable as stated
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…”
Sharon Goldman Nov 18, 2023 ▶ 8:27 Emergency Podcast: Sam Altman Fired At OpenAI
Apr 1, 2026 bullish
Disclosure
Brockman: OpenAI Is Unifying Agentic Interaction Harnesses Into a Single Super App
“All of that was something that we had multiple implementations of, or slightly different, and we're converging it. We're going to have one version of that, and almost end up with this AI layer that can be pointed at specific applications in a very thin way, so…”
Greg Brockman Apr 1, 2026 ▶ 13:35 OpenAI President Greg Brockman: AI Self-Improvement, The Superapp Bet, Path To AGI, Scaling Compute
Apr 1, 2026 positive
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Brockman: Friend Used ChatGPT to Find Treatment After Terminal Cancer Diagnosis
“I have a friend who used ChatGPT to understand different treatments for his cancer, and that he was told by doctors that he was terminal, that there was nothing they could do for him. He used ChatGPT to actually research a bunch of different ideas, and he was …”
Greg Brockman Apr 1, 2026 ▶ 27:32 OpenAI President Greg Brockman: AI Self-Improvement, The Superapp Bet, Path To AGI, Scaling Compute
Apr 1, 2026 neutral
Disclosure
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.”
Greg Brockman Apr 1, 2026 ▶ 1:09:24 OpenAI President Greg Brockman: AI Self-Improvement, The Superapp Bet, Path To AGI, Scaling Compute
Apr 1, 2026 bullish
Opinion
Brockman: We Are Currently 70% to 80% of the Way to AGI
“I think that I'd say I'm, Basically, like, 70, 80% there, so I think we're quite close.”
Greg Brockman Apr 1, 2026 ▶ 37:18 OpenAI President Greg Brockman: AI Self-Improvement, The Superapp Bet, Path To AGI, Scaling Compute
Apr 1, 2026 bullish
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Brockman: AI and Compute Will Be the Primary Driver of Economic Growth
“The highest order bit on how this economy grows from here will be about AI, how well you can leverage AI and the computational power you have available to power it.”
Greg Brockman Apr 1, 2026 ▶ 58:22 OpenAI President Greg Brockman: AI Self-Improvement, The Superapp Bet, Path To AGI, Scaling Compute
Apr 1, 2026 bullish
Opinion
Brockman: AI Models Now Have Raw Intelligence to Manage Spreadsheets and Presentations
“There's so much just very mechanical skill associated with Excel spreadsheets, with presentations, and if the AI has the context, it has the raw intelligence now to be able to do these things at a great level. So if we can just make it more accessible, suddenl…”
Greg Brockman Apr 1, 2026 ▶ 42:04 OpenAI President Greg Brockman: AI Self-Improvement, The Superapp Bet, Path To AGI, Scaling Compute
Apr 1, 2026 bullish
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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 …”
Greg Brockman Apr 1, 2026 ▶ 37:25 OpenAI President Greg Brockman: AI Self-Improvement, The Superapp Bet, Path To AGI, Scaling Compute
Apr 1, 2026 positive
Insight
Brockman: Treat AI Compute as a Revenue Center Like Hiring Salespeople
“You can think of compute not as a cost center, but as a revenue center. Think of it a little bit like hiring salespeople. How many salespeople do you want to hire? As long as you can sell your product, as long as you have a scalable way to sell that product, t…”
Greg Brockman Apr 1, 2026 ▶ 55:32 OpenAI President Greg Brockman: AI Self-Improvement, The Superapp Bet, Path To AGI, Scaling Compute
Apr 1, 2026 neutral
Insight
Brockman: Human Operators Hold Strict Accountability When Autonomous AI Agents Fail
“If you're Trying to build a website and your agent messes it up and your user is affected. It's not really the agent's fault. It's your fault. And so you need to care. And I think that for people to use these tools, right, you need to realize that human agency…”
Greg Brockman Apr 1, 2026 ▶ 44:53 OpenAI President Greg Brockman: AI Self-Improvement, The Superapp Bet, Path To AGI, Scaling Compute
Apr 1, 2026
Disclosure
Brockman Focused Primarily on OpenAI GPU Infrastructure Over Past 18 Months
“And that's where I've actually been spending most of my efforts over the past. 18 months has been really focused on our. GPU infrastructure on supporting the teams that do all of the training frameworks to scale up at these big runs”
Greg Brockman Apr 1, 2026 ▶ 23:49 OpenAI President Greg Brockman: AI Self-Improvement, The Superapp Bet, Path To AGI, Scaling Compute
Apr 1, 2026 neutral
Prediction Not checkable as stated
Brockman: New Models Will Only Feel Different in Intelligence-Bottlenecked Domains
“I think that it will be A similar story where you, when you release it, there will be people who will try it and be like, this is a night and day different than anything I've seen. And then there will be some applications where we weren't necessarily intellige…”
Greg Brockman Apr 1, 2026 ▶ 26:43 OpenAI President Greg Brockman: AI Self-Improvement, The Superapp Bet, Path To AGI, Scaling Compute
Apr 1, 2026
Disclosure
Brockman: Most OpenAI Revenue Has Come From Consumer Subscriptions
“To date, most of our revenue has come from consumer subscriptions, and that will always be very important.”
Greg Brockman Apr 1, 2026 ▶ 57:22 OpenAI President Greg Brockman: AI Self-Improvement, The Superapp Bet, Path To AGI, Scaling Compute
Apr 1, 2026
Insight
Brockman: AI Progress Is Now About Execution Harnesses Over Raw Models
“And we talked about it a little bit in the case of the underlying models, but the thing that's really changed over the past couple of years has been that it's no longer just about the model. It's about the harness. It's about how does the model get context? Ho…”
Greg Brockman Apr 1, 2026 ▶ 13:12 OpenAI President Greg Brockman: AI Self-Improvement, The Superapp Bet, Path To AGI, Scaling Compute
Apr 1, 2026 positive
Disclosure
Brockman Identifies as Single-Issue Political Donor Focused on Advancing AI
“I, you know, I am a one issue donor. This is something where I feel like I have a unique contribution to make, but it's really about just expressing support for this technology is something that we should be leaning into as a country.”
Greg Brockman Apr 1, 2026 ▶ 1:09:55 OpenAI President Greg Brockman: AI Self-Improvement, The Superapp Bet, Path To AGI, Scaling Compute
Apr 1, 2026
Assertion Supported
Brockman: Major AI Compute Purchases Require 18 to 24 Month Lead Times
“These compute purchases You have to lock them in 18 months, sometimes 24 months, sometimes longer, In advance of them actually being delivered, which means you really need to project forward.”
Greg Brockman Apr 1, 2026 ▶ 57:08 OpenAI President Greg Brockman: AI Self-Improvement, The Superapp Bet, Path To AGI, Scaling Compute
Apr 23, 2026 positive
Disclosure
Brockman: OpenAI shifted focus from benchmark scores to real-world applications
“One thing that changed for us over the past 12, you know, 18 months, something like that, is that we used to really just be focused on, let's be, let's improve on the benchmarks, let's make these models more cerebr, cerebrally capable, But we now are really fo…”
Greg Brockman Apr 23, 2026 ▶ 4:24 OpenAI President Greg Brockman on GPT-5.5 “Spud,” AI Model Moats, and Cybersecurity Risks
May 4, 2026 negative
Prediction Held up
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.”
Alex Kantrowitz May 4, 2026 ▶ 25:41 OpenAI’s User Growth Miss, Musk vs. Altman In Court, Prediction Market Ban
Jun 26, 2026 bullish
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Brockman predicts AI stack prices and margins will continue increasing
“And again, I think it's going to keep happening where because everyone has this avalanche of demand that you're going to see prices and margins and all of these things continuing to increase at various levels of the stack.”
Greg Brockman Jun 26, 2026 ▶ 3:37:45 Big Technology AI Summit (full): Greg Brockman, Mike Krieger, Aaron Levie & Friends of The Podcast
Jun 26, 2026 bullish
Assertion Supported
Brockman: Nvidia H100 prices are up despite being previous-gen hardware
“You can see that with some of the prices that people are paying for each 100, right? Hoppers are, you know, kind of, you know, not, not obsolete, right? But they're a previous gen chip and nor in any normal situation, we're not totally supply constrained. No o…”
Greg Brockman Jun 26, 2026 ▶ 3:37:23 Big Technology AI Summit (full): Greg Brockman, Mike Krieger, Aaron Levie & Friends of The Podcast
Jun 26, 2026
Assertion Not checkable as stated
Brockman: About 230M People Use ChatGPT for Health Queries Weekly
“I think that there's about two hundred thirty million people each week who use chat GPT for health queries.”
Greg Brockman Jun 26, 2026 ▶ 3:43:00 Big Technology AI Summit (full): Greg Brockman, Mike Krieger, Aaron Levie & Friends of The Podcast
Jul 1, 2026 positive
Disclosure
Brockman: Relies on ChatGPT to Manage Wife's Health Conditions
“You know, my wife has a number of health conditions, and I think that we've just been we've not like, I don't even know how to be able to manage many of her conditions right now without the use of chat.”
Greg Brockman Jul 1, 2026 ▶ 42:04 OpenAI President Greg Brockman: Our Plan To Merge Chat And Agents
Jul 1, 2026 neutral
Insight
Brockman: AI hardware will serve as access interfaces, not the AI itself
“It's not going to be like that. It's going to be more like an interface, like no more than your phone is you, right? It's an interface to you. It's a way that I can sort of, you know, call you up whenever I need you, whenever I want to ask you a question. And …”
Greg Brockman Jul 1, 2026 ▶ 17:50 OpenAI President Greg Brockman: Our Plan To Merge Chat And Agents
Jul 1, 2026 bullish
Prediction Not checkable as stated
Brockman: People will use a single AI agent across personal and work contexts
“And so you kind of are just going to want a single agent that has access to your context. And this will be true in personal life. This will be true in a business context, right?”
Greg Brockman Jul 1, 2026 ▶ 16:13 OpenAI President Greg Brockman: Our Plan To Merge Chat And Agents
Jul 1, 2026 positive
Disclosure
Brockman: Non-technical OpenAI staff use Codex as general-purpose agents
“You can hook up, like I hook up my codecs to Slack, to my Gmail, to my calendar, and there are many people within OpenAI, non-technical users, you know, it's got code in the name, but it's not really about code. It's really about having this general purpose to…”
Greg Brockman Jul 1, 2026 ▶ 3:50 OpenAI President Greg Brockman: Our Plan To Merge Chat And Agents
Jul 1, 2026 bullish
Opinion
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.”
Greg Brockman Jul 1, 2026 ▶ 34:47 OpenAI President Greg Brockman: Our Plan To Merge Chat And Agents
Jul 1, 2026 bullish
Prediction Not checkable as stated
Brockman: Future voice AI will process input and output simultaneously
“And so the obvious thing that you want to accomplish is a model An AI that works much more like you and I do, right? That's able to process input at the same time it's processing output. And all of that is, of course, something that many people in this field a…”
Greg Brockman Jul 1, 2026 ▶ 19:53 OpenAI President Greg Brockman: Our Plan To Merge Chat And Agents
Jul 1, 2026 bullish
Insight
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…”
Greg Brockman Jul 1, 2026 ▶ 1:59 OpenAI President Greg Brockman: Our Plan To Merge Chat And Agents
Jul 1, 2026 bullish
Assertion Supported
Brockman: Nvidia H100 market prices are up despite older generation status
“You can see that with some of the prices that people are paying for each 100, right? Hoppers are, you know, kind of, you know, not, not obsolete, right? But they're a previous gen chip and nor in any normal situation, we're not totally supply constrained. No o…”
Greg Brockman Jul 1, 2026 ▶ 35:48 OpenAI President Greg Brockman: Our Plan To Merge Chat And Agents
Sep 7, 2026
Assertion Not checkable as stated
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.”
Alex Kantrowitz Sep 7, 2026 ▶ 6:23 GPT-6 & OpenAI’s Comeback, Hugging Face Attack Debate, Ballmer’s Scandalous Legacy
Sep 7, 2026 bearish
Opinion
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.”
Ranjan Roy Sep 7, 2026 ▶ 10:15 GPT-6 & OpenAI’s Comeback, Hugging Face Attack Debate, Ballmer’s Scandalous Legacy
Sep 7, 2026 positive
Opinion
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 Sep 7, 2026 ▶ 7:06 GPT-6 & OpenAI’s Comeback, Hugging Face Attack Debate, Ballmer’s Scandalous Legacy
Sep 9, 2026 negative
Opinion
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.”
M.G. Siegler Sep 9, 2026 ▶ 53:20 Apple’s Folding Phone "Duo" Is Here + OpenAI vs. Google vs. Anthropic Revisited — With M.G. Siegler
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