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Brockman: No layer of the AI stack will lose value capture

Greg Brockman · OpenAI President Greg Brockman: Our Plan To Merge Chat And Agents · Jul 1, 2026 · at 34:47

OpenAI President Greg Brockman responds to Microsoft CEO Satya Nadella's assertion that foundation AI models are becoming commodities.

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“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.”

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