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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: 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: 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: 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…”
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.”
Brockman: OpenAI resells compute at positive operating margins amid outsized demand
“We rent, build, buy, compute, and we resell it with some positive margin, and as long as it's, you know, positive operating margin, and as long as there's scalable demand for intelligence, which I think is true as long as there's problems to solve, like, no on…”
Brockman: OpenAI's Top Priorities Are Personal Assistants and Problem-Solving Agents
“And for us, it's very clear that they're, the stack rank includes two things at the top. One is the personal assistant. The other is the AI that can go and solve hard problems for you.”
Brockman: Sora Video Architecture Is a Separate Tech Branch From GPT
“The Sora models, which are incredible models, by the way, are a different branch of the tech tree than the core Reasoning GPT series. They're just built in a very different way, and to some extent we're really saying that pursuing both branches is very hard fo…”
Brockman: OpenAI Continues Sora Research Program Specifically for Robotics Applications
“We are actually continuing the SOAR research program in the context of robotics, right, which I think is very clearly going to be a transformative application, which is still a little bit in the research phase”
Brockman: OpenAI Will Incrementally Ship Super App Vision Over Next Months
“We're taking incremental steps to get there over the next couple months. We should have shipped the complete vision of what we're talking about here, but it's gonna come in pieces”
Brockman: OpenAI Commits to Funding Power Infrastructure to Protect Local Prices
“On power, we have a commitment that we are going to pay our own way to not drive up energy prices for people.”
Brockman: OpenAI designed its own network protocol for supercomputing infrastructure
“We have our own network protocol that we've had to design, that we have people who look at every single layer of the stack, that there's weird wiggles in the graph.”
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.”
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…”
Brockman: OpenAI Will Expand Codex for General Knowledge Work Use
“We're going to make the Codex app just so much more usable for general knowledge work, because it already, what we've seen within OpenAI is all this organic adoption of people using it for that. So that'll be the first step, and there are many to come.”
Brockman: OpenAI Underinvested in Last-Mile Usability for Early Coding Models
“We always had the best numbers on different programming competitions, these very cerebral things, but the thing that we didn't invest in as much was that last mile of usability.”
Brockman: OpenAI Has Invested Heavily to Defend Against Prompt Injections
“If you're going to have an AI that is very smart, very capable, hooked up to lots of tools, you want to make sure that it can't be subverted by someone giving it a weird instruction. And that's something that we've invested in quite a lot, and I think have rea…”
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.”
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…”
Brockman: OpenAI employees barely use email, preferring Slack and Codex
“Within OpenAI, we basically have the same level of penetration now and usage of slack. Right. It's like everyone in opening eyes like an entirely slack based company. We do not use email for the most part. It's like really like if you're not on slack, you're n…”
Brockman: Speech-to-speech interface shares OpenAI's core model architecture
“Having a great speech to speech interface. That is something that also is going to make this technology very usable and very useful, but it's not a different branch of the tech tree. It's all kind of one model. And we just sort of tweak that in slightly differ…”
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”