Greg Brockman
President & Co-founder, OpenAI · 4 appearances on the record.
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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.
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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 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: 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: 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 …”
Brockman: The ultimate AI product interface is zero interface
“You want almost no interface. You want no product, right? You want this to be like, what's the interface between you and me, right? Just being able to talk to a persistent entity of some form that's able to go and accomplish goals for you.”
Brockman: AI scaling laws show no wall in sight
“70 years of people, maybe 80 years now of people saying this stuff is never going to work, never going to scale, going to hit the wall, hasn't hit the wall yet. There's still no wall in sight.”
Brockman: Every AI provider will sell out all their compute
“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. I think that is just like the world that we're heading towards, where there just is not going to be enough compute to …”
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 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.”
Brockman: GPT-5.5 can now autonomously operate computers and web browsers
“The fact that it's now really crossed the threshold of usefulness for general kinds of applications, and so it's much better at creating slides, spreadsheets, much better at computer use, using your browser, being able to kind of click through applications tha…”
Brockman: Workers will become overseers managing fleets of AI agents
“The place we're going is one where you as A person doing work that you are the overseer. You are the CEO of almost this autonomous corporation, or, you know, of this fleet of agents perhaps is more, is, is the way to say it, and that they are operating accordi…”
Brockman: Open-source distillation cannot completely replicate frontier AI capabilities
“Now, it is also the case that it's not as simple as you can take the output to these models and distill and you have exactly the model of the same capability, It's just smaller and can run fast. If that were the case, we would just do that”
Brockman: Massive infrastructure bets are still insufficient to prevent compute scarcity
“Still not enough. We're gonna feel the scarcity. We're gonna feel it. We're feeling it already. You can sense it right now on people who are trying to use these agents and just simply cannot, you know, hitting the rate limits. So we're working on behalf of our…”
Brockman: OpenAI Lacks Enough Compute to Fund Its Top Priorities
“And when we look at the compute we have, we are not even gonna have enough compute to fund those two things.”
Brockman: AI knowledge work will see a real takeoff within the next year
“We're going to see this real takeoff Of this technology and knowledge work over the next year.”
Brockman: OpenAI Reasoning Model Solved an Unsolved Physics Problem in 12 Hours
“We had this result recently where a physicist had been working on a problem for some time. He gave it to our model. 12 hours later, we have a solution, and he said this is the first time he's seen a model where he felt like he was thinking, that it felt like t…”
The other half of the tape: Greg Brockman's own voice is left out of every number here. Other people bring the name up 71 times in 32 episodes on Big Technology. 6 statements on the record name them. every mention, with the transcript →
Who brings them up most Alex Kantrowitz 53M.G. Siegler 6Sharon Goldman 4Dick Costolo 2Ranjan Roy 1David Cahn 1Andrew Bosworth 1Aaron Levie 1
Statements about Greg Brockman, by other people (6)
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.”
Every mention by year
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2026 62 mentions in 28 episodes 2 per episode
- 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
- Apple After Tim Cook, OpenAI’s New Mojo, Meta’s Internal Tracking Escapade
- Who Wins The AI Superapp Battle?, Apple’s Consumer AI Victory, World Cup Automation Mistake
- Mythos is Back, OpenAI Releases GPT 5.6, Apple’s Price Increases
- AI Revenue Explodes, Dario’s Memo, McDonalds’ CEO’s Baby Burger Bite
- 20 more episodes that year, every mention in 2026 →
2025 4 mentions in 3 episodes 1 per episode
2023 5 mentions in 1 episode
Appearances (4)
| Episode | Date | Speaking time |
|---|---|---|
| OpenAI President Greg Brockman: Our Plan To Merge Chat And Agents | Jul 1, 2026 | 29m |
| Big Technology AI Summit (full): Greg Brockman, Mike Krieger, Aaron Levie & Friends of The | Jun 26, 2026 | 30m |
| OpenAI President Greg Brockman on GPT-5.5 “Spud,” AI Model Moats, and Cybersecurity Risks | Apr 23, 2026 | 17m |
| OpenAI President Greg Brockman: AI Self-Improvement, The Superapp Bet, Path To AGI, Scalin | Apr 1, 2026 | 52m |