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476 statements across 115 episodes · 254 bullish · 50 bearish · 113 people on the record · first statement Jun 20, 2023 by George Hotz · said 2,340 times in 230 episodes since 2023 · across every show →
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brought up most by Shawn Wang (467), Alessio Fanelli (151), Nathan Lambert (98), Michelle Pokrass (44), Ryan Lopopolo (39), Noam Brown (31), Brian Fioca (30), Dylan Patel (29)
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2026 483 mentions in 58 episodes 8 per episode
- Extreme Harness Engineering: 1M LOC, 1B toks/day, 0% human code or review — Ryan Lopopolo, OpenAI
- OpenAI’s Vision for the AI Super App — Akshay Nathan, OpenAI
- The Inference Frontier: from 100 to 10,000 tokens per second — Sean Lie, Cerebras CTO
- 🔬How GPT‑5 derived new results in theoretical physics and quantum gravity — Alex Lupsasca, OpenAI
- ⚡️ Prism: OpenAI's LaTeX "Cursor for Scientists" — Kevin Weil & Victor Powell, OpenAI for Science
- Claude Code for Finance + The Global Memory Shortage: Doug O'Laughlin, SemiAnalysis
- Marc Andreessen introspects on Death of the Browser, Pi + OpenClaw, and Why "This Time Is Different"
- Cooking with OpenAI’s Research Chief: AGI, o1, Evals, and Scaling Laws — Mark Chen
- 50 more episodes that year, every mention in 2026 →
2025 1,113 mentions in 104 episodes 11 per episode
- 2024 Year in Review: The Big Scaling Debate, the Four Wars of AI, Top Themes and the Rise of Agents
- Scaling Test Time Compute to Multi-Agent Civilizations — Noam Brown, OpenAI
- OpenAI o1 isn’t a chat model (and that’s the point)
- DevDay 2025: Apps SDK, Agent Kit, MCP, Codex and why Prompting is More Important than Ever
- The new OpenAI Agents Platform: CUA, Web Search, Responses API, Agents SDK!!
- [State of RL/Reasoning] IMO/IOI Gold, OpenAI o3/GPT-5, and Cursor Composer — Ashvin Nair, Cursor
- The RLVR Revolution — with Nathan Lambert (AI2, Interconnects.ai)
- ⚡️GPT5-Codex-Max: Training Agents with Personality, Tools & Trust — Brian Fioca + Bill Chen, OpenAI
- 96 more episodes that year, every mention in 2025 →
2024 657 mentions in 57 episodes 12 per episode
- Building AGI in Real Time (OpenAI Dev Day 2024)
- Building AGI with OpenAI's Structured Outputs API
- The Origin and Future of RLHF: the secret ingredient for ChatGPT - with Nathan Lambert
- Agents @ Work: Dust.tt — with Stanislas Polu
- Production AI Engineering starts with Evals
- Is finetuning GPT4o worth it?
- The Winds of AI Winter (Q2 Four Wars of the AI Stack Recap)
- Why Compound AI + Open Source will beat Closed AI — with Lin Qiao, CEO of Fireworks AI
- 49 more episodes that year, every mention in 2024 →
2023 87 mentions in 11 episodes 8 per episode
- The State of Silicon and the GPU Poors - with Dylan Patel of SemiAnalysis
- RAG is a hack - with Jerry Liu of LlamaIndex
- The "Normsky" architecture for AI coding agents — with Beyang Liu + Steve Yegge of SourceGraph
- The End of Finetuning — with Jeremy Howard of Fast.ai
- Ep 18: Petaflops to the People — with George Hotz of tinycorp
- Beating GPT-4 with Open Source Models - with Michael Royzen of Phind
- Why AI Agents Don't Work (yet) - with Kanjun Qiu of Imbue
- RWKV: Reinventing RNNs for the Transformer Era
- 3 more episodes that year, every mention in 2023 →
Everything said about OpenAI, oldest first
Jun 20, 2023 neutral
Jun 20, 2023 negative
Aug 3, 2023 bullish
Aug 31, 2023 negative
Sep 20, 2023 neutral
Oct 20, 2023 positive
Howard: Rapid LLM race created massive technical debt and optimization opportunities
“There's a whole lot of technical debt everywhere, you know, nobody's really figured this stuff out because everybody's been so busy building what we know works as quickly as possible. So, yeah, I think there's a huge amount of opportunity to, you know, I think…”
Oct 20, 2023 positive
Howard: Alec Radford Built OpenAI's GPT After Reading ULMFiT
“I organized a chat for both of us with Kate Metz in the New York Times, and Kate Metz answered, sorry, and Alec answered this question for Kate, and Kate just like, so how did, you know, GPT come about? And he said, well, I was pretty sure that pre-training on…”
Oct 27, 2023 bearish
Keydunov: AI will not make embedded analytics easier to monetize
“I don't think AI really going to change that just because it's using model, you just pay to open AI and that's it. Like everyone can do that, right? It's not much of a Competitive advantage. So it's going to be more like a commodity features that a lot of like…”
Nov 3, 2023 bearish
Nov 3, 2023 neutral
Nov 3, 2023 negative
Royzen: GPT-4 was trained on HumanEval, proving data contamination
“GPT-IV itself has been trained on human eval, and we know this because GPT-IV is able to predict the exact doc string in many of the problems. I've seen it predict, like, the specific example values in the doc string, which is extremely improbable for it to ju…”
Dec 5, 2023 bearish
Dec 5, 2023 positive
Dec 5, 2023 bullish
Jan 5, 2024 bullish
Jan 11, 2024 negative
Lambert: Startups should avoid RLHF unless it offers niche advantage
“I don't really recommend most startups to do it unless it's like going to provide them a clear competitive advantage in their kind of niche. Yeah. Because you're not going to make your model ChatGPT like better than OpenAI or anything like that.”
Jan 11, 2024 neutral
Jan 11, 2024 bearish
Jan 11, 2024 neutral
Lambert: Anthropic Constitutional AI and OpenAI Superalignment share intellectual roots
“The constitutional AI and the super alignment is, like, very conceptually linked. It's like a group of people that has, like, a very similar intellectual upbringing, and they work together for a long time, like, coming to the same conclusions in different ways…”
Jan 11, 2024 negative
Lambert: Frontier AI labs do not recruit economics or social choice academics
“The RLHF techniques that people use were built in, like, labs like OpenAI and DeepMind, where there are some of these people, they have, they, these places do a pretty good job of trying to get these people in the door when you compare them to, like, startups,…”
Jan 11, 2024 positive
Lambert: GPT-4 Turbo Showed a Noticeable Jump on LMSYS Chatbot Arena
“GPT-IV Turbo is also notably ahead of the other GPT-IVs, which it kind of showed up immediately once they added it to the leaderboard, or to the arena, and I was like, all the GPT-IV memes aside, it seems like this is effectively a bump in the model.”
Jan 11, 2024 neutral
Lambert: OpenAI retrains reward models with curated and user prompt mixtures
“And this is like a sort of outer loop optimization that no one in the open is even remotely qualified to talk about, but OpenAI does monitor and they'll like rerun RLHF and train a new reward model with a mixture of their curated data and user prompts to try t…”
Jan 11, 2024 neutral
Lambert: RLHF has not been shown to improve underlying model benchmark capabilities
“RLHF is not that shown to improve capabilities yet. I think one of the fun ones is from the GPT-IV technical report. They essentially listed their kind of bogus evaluations, because it's a hilarious table, because it's like LSAT AP exams, and then like AMC-X a…”
Jan 11, 2024 neutral
Lambert: Anthropic and OpenAI reward model loss functions are mathematically identical
“Fun fact is that these loss functions Look different and anthropic in opening eyes papers, but they're just literally just log transform. So if you start like expantiating both sides and taking the log of both sides, you'll like converge on one of the two, the…”
Feb 7, 2024 bullish
Future Llama models will match frontier GPT models if progress slows
“As AI progress slows down, so if we get like Llama-IV, Llama-V for example, maybe it's a comparable at that point, like GPT-V or GPT-VI, like, It made it to the point where it was like, look, I just want to use Lama. Like, it's, you know, safe for me to, you k…”
Feb 7, 2024 bullish
OpenAI would decisively defeat any AI startup competitors
“I think if I was competing in startups, OpenAI would win for sure. Like, at this point, OpenAI is so far ahead from both a model and a pricing perspective that, like, there is no reason for it to go really, I think, in my opinion, at least, a startup model.”
Feb 19, 2024 neutral
Modal Will Not Try to Compete Directly With OpenAI's API
“So many people get started with APIs and that's just, you know, they're just dominating a space in particular, open AI. Right. And that's not necessarily like a place where we aim to compete. I mean, maybe at some point, but like, it's just not like a core foc…”
Mar 6, 2024 bullish
Chintala: Centralized feedback could trigger open source runaway over OpenAI
“If that central sinkhole is there, who's gonna go coordinate all of this integration across all of these, like, open source frontends? But I think if we do that, if that actually happens, I think that probably has a real chance of the open source models having…”
Mar 27, 2024 neutral
Mar 27, 2024
Altman and Luan pitched Microsoft's top leadership before the OpenAI investment
“The last meeting we did with Microsoft, Before Microsoft invested in OpenAI, Sam Altman, myself, and our CFO flew up to Seattle to do the final pitch meeting. And I'd been a founder before, so I always had like a tremendous amount of anxiety about partner meet…”
Mar 27, 2024
Google would have crushed OpenAI by giving Noam Shazeer half its TPUs
“That muscle did not exist during my time at Google. And I think had they had it, what they would have done would be say, hey, Noam Shazir, you're a brilliant guy. You know how to scale these things up? Like, here's half of all of our TPUs. And then I think the…”
Apr 6, 2024
Apr 24, 2024 bullish
Apr 27, 2024 positive
Claude 3 can bypass its assistant persona to expose the underlying simulator
“Instead of having this entity, like GPT-IV, that's an assistant that just pops up in your face that you have to kind of, like, punch your way through and continue to have to deal with as a headache, instead, there's ways to kindly coax Claude into having the a…”
Jun 25, 2024 neutral
Jul 5, 2024 neutral
Jul 5, 2024 neutral
Jul 23, 2024 neutral
Aug 2, 2024 positive
Aug 17, 2024 negative
Howard: Non-profit boards cannot control commercial entities with equity-compensated staff
“This didn't make sense to have like a so-called non-profit where then there are people working at a commercial company that's owned by or controlled nominally by the non-profit where the people in the company are being given the equivalent of stock options. Li…”
Aug 22, 2024
Aug 22, 2024 positive
Access to GPT-4 Turbo experimental fine-tuning enabled Cosine Genie's creation
“Eventually we were able to get on the experimental access program and we got access to four turbo fine tuning. As soon as we did that, because in the entire run up to that, we'd built the data pipeline. We already had all that set up. So we're like, right, we …”
Aug 22, 2024 neutral
Cosine receives larger OpenAI LoRA adapters than public tiers due to volume
“Actually we use models that are larger than what's publicly available, something publicly available yet, but when this goes out, it will be, but we have larger law adapters available to us, just because the amount of data that we're pumping through it”
Aug 22, 2024 negative
Genie's SWE-bench success rate drops to roughly 50% past 60k tokens
“Performance of Jeannie over the length of the context window degrades fairly linearly. So actually, I actually broke it down by probability of solving a SWE bench issue. Given the number of tokens of the context window at 60 K, it's basically .5. So if you go …”
Aug 28, 2024
Carlini extracted production models from Google and OpenAI with legal permission
“We ran the attack that let us, yeah, stole several of OpenAI's models. With their permission... We notified everyone who was vulnerable to this attack. Some Google models were vulnerable. Some open AM models were vulnerable. There were one or two other people …”
Aug 28, 2024 negative
Carlini: GPT-4 would exist identically without adversarial machine learning research
“Nothing about GPT-IV would be at all different if the field of, like the entire field of Everson machine learning disappeared. Like everything to do with Everson examples, like all of the, like for the most part, like GPT-IV would exist identically.”
Sep 17, 2024 neutral
OpenAI built Structured Outputs because developers were hacking function calling
“A lot of people were hacking function calling to get the response format they needed, and so this is why we shipped kind of this new response format. So you can get exactly what you want, and you get kind of more of the models verbosity.”
Sep 17, 2024 positive
OpenAI's Assistants API increased its file limit to 10,000 files
“Before, we only supported, I think, like, 20 files per assistant, and the way we used those files was, like, less effective. Basically, the model would decide, based on the file name, whether to search a file, and there's, like, not a ton of information in the…”
Sep 17, 2024 positive
Building custom evals is high leverage for AI application developers
“I think for customers, and we work with a lot of customers, really developing their own evals is super high leverage. Because then you can upgrade really quickly when we have a new model, you can experiment with these things with confidence.”
Sep 17, 2024 neutral
Sep 17, 2024
Sep 17, 2024 bullish
Sep 17, 2024 neutral
Constrained decoding alone degrades output quality without model training
“And so it's not enough to just kind of constrain the model. I think of that as the engineering side, whereas basically you mask the available tokens that are produced every time to only fit the schema. And so you can do this engineering thing and you can force…”
Sep 17, 2024 positive
Sep 17, 2024 neutral
Whisper v2 outperforms v3 at certain tasks, delaying its API rollout
“And so whisper V two is better at some things than whisper V three. And so it didn't seem that worthwhile to ship whisper V three compared to like the other things in our priorities. I think we still will at some point, but yeah, it's just, you know, there's a…”
Sep 17, 2024 positive
Sep 17, 2024 positive
OpenAI hires applied engineers without prior AI experience
“We've hired people with all kinds of backgrounds, people who have PhD in an ML or folks who have just done engineering like me, and we're really hiring for a lot of teams. We're hiring across the applied org, which is where I sit for engineering, and for a lot…”
Sep 17, 2024 neutral
Structured response format is limited to GPT-4o and GPT-4o mini
“Actually, the new response format is only available on two models. It's Foro Mini and the new Foro. So the old Foro doesn't have the new response format. However, for function calling, we were able to enable it for all models that support function calling, and…”
Sep 17, 2024 positive
Sep 17, 2024 neutral
Sep 17, 2024 positive
Sep 17, 2024
Sep 17, 2024
Sep 17, 2024 positive
Structured Outputs supports recursive schemas for generating dynamic UIs
“The schemas, we support recursive schemas, and this allows you to do really cool stuff, like, you know, every UI is a nested tree that has children, and so I thought that was super cool. You can use one schema and generate, like, tons of UIs.”
Sep 17, 2024 positive
Sep 17, 2024 neutral
Sep 17, 2024 neutral
Sep 17, 2024 neutral
OpenAI's function calling originated from early Code Interpreter prototypes
“The history here is we started with function calling and function calling, you know, came from the idea of like, let's give the model access to tools and let's see what it does. And we basically had these internal prototypes of what code interpreter is now. An…”
Sep 17, 2024 neutral
OpenAI rejected pre-registering schema IDs to avoid developer complexity
“The alternative design space that we explored It's like pre-registering your schema, so like a totally different endpoint, and then passing in like a schema ID. But we thought, you know, that was a lot of overhead, and like another endpoint to maintain, and ju…”
Sep 17, 2024
ChatGPT's launch caused Postgres bottlenecks by reusing API developer accounts
“Surprisingly there were a lot of Postgres issues when ChatGPT came out because the accounts for like ChatGPT were tied to the accounts in the API. And so you're basically creating a developer account to log into ChatGPT at the time, because it's just what we h…”
Sep 17, 2024 positive
Sep 19, 2024 neutral
Jamil: OpenAI and Cohere Overlap Prefill and Generation to Maximize GPU Utilization
“Token generation is memory bound means that the limitation is only given by how much your KVCache can hold. So the memory can hold in terms of KVCache. While prefilling is compute bound, so to maximize the GPU utilization, whenever you work with OpenAI or Cohe…”
Sep 20, 2024 neutral
Schulhoff: GPT-4 Fails to Output Reasoning on 1 in 100 to 1,000 Prompts
“I remember I did a lot of experiments with GPT-IV, and especially when you look at it at scale, so I'll run thousands of prompts against it through the API, and I'll see, you know, every one in a hundred, every one in a thousand outputs no reasoning whatsoever…”
Sep 20, 2024 neutral
Sep 27, 2024 positive
Harrison Chase says OpenAI recommends adding a thought field to tool schemas
“I think open AI even recommended, like when you're doing tool calling, it's sometimes helpful to put like a thought field in the tool along with all the actual acquired arguments and then have that one first. So it fills out that first and then, and that's, th…”
Sep 27, 2024
Oct 4, 2024 bullish
Altman: AI will dynamically render custom real-time interfaces for any request
“At some point in not that many years in the future, you'll walk up to a piece of glass, you will say whatever you want they will have, like, there will be incredible reasoning models, agents connected to everything, there will be a video model streaming back t…”
Oct 4, 2024 positive
Oct 4, 2024 neutral
Oct 4, 2024 positive
Oct 4, 2024 positive
Godement: OpenAI plans API knobs for developers to adjust safety thresholds
“And so I think the direction where we'll go here is that, basically, there will always be, like, you know, a set of behavior that will, you know, just, like, forbid, frankly, because they're illegal against our terms of services, but then there will be, like, …”
Oct 4, 2024 neutral
Pokras: OpenAI Assistants API requires too many initial API requests
“Some of the things that are good in the assistance API is hosted tools. People really like posted tools and especially RAG. And then some things that are, you know, less intuitive is just how many API requests you need to get going with the Assistant's API.”
Oct 4, 2024 positive
Oct 4, 2024 positive
Weil: OpenAI customer support team is 20% expected size thanks to AI
“There are things that get closer to that, I mean, there, like, customer service, we have bots internally that do what's fun about answering external questions and fielding internal people's questions on Slack and so on, and our customer success, our customer s…”
Oct 4, 2024 bullish
Oct 4, 2024 neutral
Godement: OpenAI will only build tools closest to the model
“There is no freaking way that OpenAI can build everything. Like, there is just too much to build, frankly. And so, my philosophy is, essentially, we'll focus on, like, the tools which are, like, the closest to the model itself. So that's why you see us, like, …”
Oct 4, 2024 bullish
Oct 4, 2024 bullish
Oct 4, 2024 positive
Oct 4, 2024 bullish
Pokras: Vision fine-tuning is the most underrated release for bespoke OCR
“Vision fine-tuning is so underrated. For the past, like, two months, whenever I talk to founders, they tell me this is the thing they need most. A lot of people are doing, like, OCR on, on very bespoke formats, like government documents, and vision fine-tuning…”
Oct 4, 2024 bullish
Biggio: Real-time video/vision is likely the next Realtime API feature
“To use ChatGPT's voice mode as an example, like we've demoed the video, right? Like real-time image, right? So I'm not actually sure what timelines are, but I would expect, if I had to guess, that like that is probably the next thing that we're going to be mak…”
Oct 4, 2024
Godement: Founders should build apps slightly too difficult for current models
“As a developer, as a founder, you basically want to build an app, which is a bit too difficult for the model today, right? Like what you think is right. It's like sort of working, sometimes not working. And that way, you know, that basically gives us like a go…”
Oct 11, 2024 bullish
Goyal: Running LLM workloads at scale is impractical outside OpenAI
“It's just not practical outside of OpenAI to run use cases at scale in a lot of cases. Like, you can do it, but it requires quite a bit of work. And
Because OpenAI is so good at making their models so available, I think they get a lot of credit for the science…”
Oct 11, 2024 bearish
Goyal: OpenAI o1 will make agentic frameworks obsolete
“And I think O-one is going to do that to agentic frameworks as well. Hey, I think To me, it seems very unlikely that the, you know, you and me sort of like sipping an espresso and thinking about how, like, different personified roles of people should interact …”
Oct 11, 2024 neutral
Goyal: OpenAI dominates production while Anthropic Sonnet leads side projects
“We still see an overwhelming majority of customers using OpenAI, but almost everyone is using Anthropic for the, and Sonnet specifically for their side projects, whether it's
You know, via cursor or prototypes or whatever.”
Oct 11, 2024 bullish
Oct 11, 2024 bearish
Goyal: Public clouds fail to match direct OpenAI endpoint experience and capacity
“It hasn't been a smooth journey for people to get the capacity on public clouds that they're able to get through, you know, OpenAI directly. I mean, I think a lot of this is changing, catching up, et cetera. But it hasn't been perfectly smooth. And I think the…”
Oct 11, 2024 negative
Oct 19, 2024 positive
Oct 19, 2024 positive
Oct 19, 2024 positive
Wang: OpenAI is opening an office in Singapore
“You know, OpenAI is opening an office in Singapore, and how we can grow more AI engineers in Singapore as well, because I think, I do think that that is something that people are interested in, whether or not it's for their own careers or to hire out in Singap…”
Oct 25, 2024 negative
Nov 1, 2024 bullish
Angelopoulos: OpenAI o1 crushed Chatbot Arena, proving the benchmark isn't saturated
“So there's this model and it crushed the benchmark. You know, it's just like really like a big gap. And what that's telling us is that it's not saturated yet. And so it's still measuring some signal that was encouraging point.”
Nov 2, 2024 positive
Nov 2, 2024 positive
Stabilization Techniques Help Continuous Consistency Models Outperform Discrete Models
“And so like when you stack all of these things together, then you're able to train much more effectively and continuous time does much better. Then these discrete, this n is the number of discrete steps that your model is taking, and, you know, maybe one inter…”
Nov 2, 2024
Consistency Models Map Any Trajectory Point Directly to Original Data
“What a consistency model does is it says that everything should be on the same trajectory, right? So I'm gonna, if I estimate it, I can I'm gonna learn how to map from any point on this trajectory to the to this point in the data.”
Nov 11, 2024 positive
Polu: Sam Altman mastered technical ML details within two years at OpenAI
“One thing about Sam Altman, he really impressed me, because when I joined, he had joined not that long ago. And it felt like he was kind of a very high level CEO. And I was mind blown by how deep he was able to go into the subjects within a year or something, …”
Nov 11, 2024
Polu: OpenAI Managed Research Priorities Directly Through Compute Allocation
“In that space, there's a managing tool that is great, which is computer location. Basically, by managing the computer location, you can message the team of where you think the priority should go. And so it was really a question of you were free as a researcher…”
Nov 11, 2024 positive
Polu: Combining LLMs with formal math pairs creativity with proof verification
“Transformers are very creative, but yet they do mistakes. And formal math systems are the ability to verify a proof. And the tactics they can use to solve problems are very mechanical. So you miss the creativity. And so the idea was to try to explore both toge…”
Nov 11, 2024
Nov 11, 2024 positive
Nov 11, 2024
Nov 11, 2024
Nov 11, 2024 positive
Polu: Ilya Sutskever Spent Surprising Amount of Time Communicating OpenAI Vision
“I think he was really focused on building the vision and communicating the vision within the company, which was extremely It's extremely useful. I was personally surprised that he spent so much time, you know, working on communicating that vision and getting t…”
Nov 11, 2024 neutral
Polu: Anthropic split was driven by disagreement over OpenAI's API commercialization
“What I understood of it is that there was a disagreement of the commercialization of that technology. I think the focal point of the disagreement was the fact that we started working on the API and wanted to make those models available through an API. Is that …”
Nov 25, 2024 positive
Fireworks AI will release a reasoning model inspired by OpenAI's o1
“So another announcement is we will also announce a, our next
Declarative system is going to be appear as a model that has extremely high quality, and this model is inspired by O-one announcement from OpenAI.
You should see that by the time we announce this o…”
Nov 28, 2024 neutral
Dec 21, 2024 neutral
Dec 21, 2024 bullish
Reddy: Test-time scaling currently works best for verifiable domains like math
“It seems like OpenAI has cracked a version of this that works, and we think A, Foundation Model Labs will come up with better ways of doing this, and B, so far it largely works for very verifiable domains, things that look like math and physics and maybe secon…”
Dec 21, 2024 bearish
Dec 23, 2024 negative
Dec 23, 2024
Dec 25, 2024 positive
Jan 1, 2025 bullish
Jan 1, 2025 bullish
Jan 1, 2025 positive
Swyx: DeepMind has roughly a four-year advantage over OpenAI in world modeling
“So like they have maybe four years advantage on world modeling that OpenAI does not have. Cause OpenAI basically only started Diffusion Transformers last year when they hired Build Peebles. So DeepMind has a bit of advantage here.”
Jan 1, 2025 neutral
Jan 2, 2025 bullish
Lambert: OpenAI's o1 uses token streams as intermediate state compute
“Why oh, one is exciting is because it's a new type of language models that are going to maximize on this view of reasoning, which is that chain of thought in kind of a forward stream of tokens can actually do a lot to achieve better outcomes when you're doing …”
Jan 2, 2025 positive
Jan 2, 2025 bullish
Jan 2, 2025 positive
Lambert: OpenAI o1 uses large-scale RL on verifiable outcomes, not MCTS
“You should take open AI at their face value, which they are doing very large scale RL on the verifiable outcomes is what I've added, especially in context of the RL API that they've released, which I'll talk about more, but most of the reasons to believe in mo…”
Jan 2, 2025 negative
Lambert: Early DeepSeek and Qwen reasoning models are substantially narrower than o1
“And I think that these models are really substantially narrower than these full O-one models from OpenAI. So OpenAI is, if you use O-one, you can do it for a lot more tasks. If you use, like I was using the DeepSeq model, and it's supposed to be for math or co…”
Jan 10, 2025 bullish
Bryk: Exa applies OpenAI's o1 variable compute paradigm to web search
“One way of thinking about what we built is like O-one for search because, Oh, one is all about like, you know, some questions require more compute than others, and we'll put as much compute into the question as we need to solve it. So similarly with our search…”
Jan 10, 2025 positive
Bryk: Exa is the 'OpenAI of search' building AGI for retrieval
“I often say we're the OpenAI of search because we're a research company, we're a research startup that does like fundamental research into making like AGI for search in a way. And then we have all these like business products that come out of that.”
Jan 17, 2025 negative
Hylak: OpenAI o1 struggles to match personal tone and writing styles
“I think that I've had a very hard time getting it to actually write stuff. I know that I've heard of people using it for writing where it's like processing diffs, more like providing critiques or feedback, but at least for myself, I haven't found a good way to…”
Jan 17, 2025 neutral
Jan 17, 2025 bullish
McAteer: OpenAI o1 is the first model that grows more impressive over time
“O-one is actually the first model where I'm getting more impressed by it the more I use it. So, like, when ChatGPT first came out, right, I think it was GPT-III. And at first it seemed like, oh wow, this is amazing, it can actually create text that sounds like…”
Jan 17, 2025 neutral
Hylak: Hidden reasoning tokens create an information asymmetry between OpenAI and developers
“I think that what makes a one even trickier than other models is that there is actually an asymmetric miss to how well open AI understands the model and how well we, for example, the fact that like reasoning tokens are hidden, right? So there's all this stuff …”
Jan 17, 2025 neutral
Jan 17, 2025 positive
Fanelli: OpenAI o1 is a goal-based reasoning model, not a chatbot
“Like O-one is not a chat model. And I think this is both from a usage perspective, but also ties back to some of the training stuff and post training that we already talked about. Like the previous models were so focused on early chat based on, especially on c…”
Jan 17, 2025 bullish
McAteer: o1 is the first model to achieve one-shot codebase implementation
“Using O-one was, it was the first time where I would connect it to my IDE. I would provide the full context of my code base. I'll just create a file that concatenates all my files into one just simple text file, give it to O-one, and then say, hey, based on th…”
Jan 17, 2025 positive
Jan 17, 2025 bullish
Swyx: Anthropic and OpenAI will launch automated API model routing
“And so I pick and OpenAI have both keys that model routing on APIs already. And so I think they'll launch them, especially at some point where you can sort of prioritize the three tradeoffs that are in model routing, cost, speed, intelligence.”
Jan 17, 2025 positive
Swyx: Diff critiques steer LLM style better than few-shot examples
“And actually I found that that is a better way of doing this than when doing, you know, XML bracket, good example, close bracket, bad example, close bracket. Those examples tend to meet. There's an issue of prompts leaking, example leaking. Where there's a few…”
Jan 24, 2025 neutral
OpenAI likely reaches frontier capabilities via search, then distills into mini models
“The only way you reach the frontier with the full size models of O-one and O-three is with that stuff. And then you can distill to the minis, the O-one mini, O-three mini. So in my writeup, I said like, maybe this is the formula for O-one mini, O-three mini. T…”
Jan 26, 2025 bullish
Beauchamp: AI intelligence is generative LLMs combined with tree search
“I think if you want to talk about what would intelligence look like, it looks much more like tree search. Combining the generative nature of these LLMs with a really good tree search. And that's what opening I've done with O-one and O-three.”
Feb 1, 2025
Feb 1, 2025 neutral
Feb 1, 2025
Feb 1, 2025 positive
Karina Nguyen: OpenAI o1 excels when given explicit hard constraints
“If you give a one like hard, like constraints of like what you're looking for, basically the model would be, we'll have a much easier time to like, kind of like select the candidates and match like the candidate that is most like, fulfill the criteria that you…”
Feb 1, 2025 bullish
Nguyen: ChatGPT Will Evolve Into an Interface That Morphs Based on User Intent
“Chat CPT evolves into this Blank interface, which can morph itself in whatever you trying, like the model should try to like derive your true intent and then modify the interface based on your intent. And then if you like writing, it should become like the mos…”
Feb 1, 2025 bearish
Swix: Bearish on computer-use AI agents due to cost, speed, and accuracy
“I have been very bearish in computer use because they're slow. They're expensive. They're imprecise. Like the accuracy is horrible. Still, even with Anthropix new stuff, I'm really waiting to see what opening I might do to change my opinions.”
Feb 1, 2025 bullish
Feb 1, 2025 neutral
Nguyen: OpenAI takes bigger product risks while Anthropic focuses on enterprise
“OpenAI and Anthropik is different in terms of like more like maybe like product mindset. Maybe OpenAI is much more willing to take some of the product risks and explore different bets. And I think Anthropik is much more focused and they have, I think it's fine…”
Feb 1, 2025 neutral
Feb 6, 2025 positive
Colvin: AI providers are centralizing around OpenAI's API standard
“I think the truth is that everyone is centralizing around OpenAI's SD API as the one to do. So DeepSeek support that. Grok with a K support that. Olama also does it. Well, I mean, if there is that library right now, it's more or less the OpenAI SDK.”
Feb 6, 2025 positive
Feb 11, 2025 neutral
Feb 11, 2025 neutral
AGI Real-World Impact Will Be Bottlenecked by Physical Processes, Not Intelligence
“It seems likely to me that, you know, at first and something that is AGI will be good in digital domains you know, because it's software. So if you think about something like AI discovering a new say like pharmaceutical therapy, the barrier to that is probably…”
Feb 11, 2025 neutral
Feb 26, 2025 neutral
Feb 26, 2025 positive
OpenAI models remain the industry best for chained function calling
“And so we find like the open AI models function calling wise for our use case. So for the best ones and like, yeah, basically verifying the others. We had a beta group and testing different models. So basically from all providers and yeah, find basically the b…”
Feb 26, 2025 neutral
Feb 28, 2025 bearish
Klein: OpenAI's brand constraints will prevent them from offering CAPTCHA solving
“I think it's going to be really hard for a company like OpenAI to do things like support CAPTCHA solving or like have proxies. Like, I think it's hard for them structurally. Imagine this New York Times headline, OpenAI CAPTCHA solving. Like, that would be a pr…”
Mar 11, 2025 positive
Handa: Vector stores require metadata filtering above 5,000 records
“Metadata filtering was like the main thing people were asking us for a while, and that's the one I'm super excited about. I mean, it's just so critical. Once you're like vector store size goes over, you know, more than like, you know, five, 10,000 records, you…”
Mar 11, 2025 positive
Huet: OpenAI will continue to maintain and support Chat Completions API
“Chat completion is definitely, like, here to stay. You know, it's a bare metal API we've had for quite some time, lots of tools built around it, so we want to make sure that it's maintained and people can confidently keep on building on it.”
Mar 11, 2025 bullish
OpenAI launches Agents SDK with built-in dashboard tracing
“Actually, the last thing we're launching is the agent's SDK. We launched this thing called swarm last year, where You know, it was an experimental SDK for people to do multi-agent orchestration and stuff like that. It was supposed to be like educational, exper…”
Mar 11, 2025 positive
OpenAI Agents SDK supports any Chat Completions-compatible API provider
“We also, like, made this pretty flexible, so you can pick any API from any provider that supports the chat completions API format. So it supports responses by default, but you can, like, easily plug it into Anyone that uses the Chat Completions API.”
Mar 11, 2025 neutral
Mar 11, 2025 neutral
Mar 11, 2025 positive
Handa: OpenAI plans to merge preview models into core mainline models
“I think in the early days, research teams that open AI like operate with like fine-tuned models. And then once the thing gets like more stable, we sort of merge it into the mainline. So that's definitely the vision, like going out of preview as we get more com…”
Mar 11, 2025 positive
Handa: Responses API will support all Chat Completions and Assistants features
“So, so the responses API is going to support everything that the chat, it's at launch going to support everything that chat completion supports. And then over time, it's going to support everything that assistance supports.”
Mar 11, 2025 bullish
OpenAI launches Responses API to power future agentic products
“And to support all of these tools, we're going to have a new API. So, you know, we launched ChatCompletions, like, I think March, 23 or so. It's been a while. So, so we're looking for an update over here to support all the new things that the models can do. An…”
Mar 11, 2025 positive
Mar 11, 2025
Mar 11, 2025 bullish
Mar 11, 2025 positive
Mar 11, 2025 positive
OpenAI plans to connect agent traces to evals and reinforcement fine-tuning
“Like you got to tie the traces to the evals product so that you can generate good evals. Once you have good evals and graders and tasks, You can use that to do reinforcement fine tuning and you know, lots of details to be figured out over here, but that's the …”
Mar 14, 2025
Mar 14, 2025 negative
Mar 23, 2025 negative
Swyx: Frontier Models Exist Primarily to Distill Smaller, Usable Models
“Even GPT 4.5 is too expensive. Normally it's really gonna use it in, in any reasonable quantity. Like, you know, Claude 3.5 Opus, like if it does exist, still not like, you know, the thing that we actually use is Sonnet, right? So like, it's almost like a depl…”
Mar 28, 2025 bullish
Shah: OpenAI will inevitably build a custom AI agent marketplace
“I'm an investor, but no inside information. Is because it makes too much sense for them not to like, and they, they've taken multiple passes at it, right? They did the plugins back in the day, then the custom GPTs, and then the GPT store, because, you know, be…”
Mar 28, 2025 positive
Apr 11, 2025 neutral
Apr 11, 2025 positive
Apr 11, 2025 neutral
Conrad: OpenRouter open-source traffic required only around 10 H100 nodes
“The entirety of Open Router that was not Anthropic or Google like, or Gemini or OpenAI or something. It was like, 10 H 100 nodes or something like that. It's just, like, not that much. It's like, not that many GPUs, actually, to service that entire demand.”
Apr 15, 2025 negative
Apr 15, 2025 positive
Apr 15, 2025 neutral
Apr 15, 2025 positive
OpenAI stealth-tested GPT-4.1 models on OpenRouter before official release
“Yeah yeah, we really wanted to get as much developer feedback as possible on this model to make sure it worked well in the real world, and so we tested it kind of through Open Router and it was super cool to see people latch on to the names and get the theorie…”
Apr 15, 2025 positive
Apr 15, 2025 positive
Pokrass: Developers are sleeping on preference fine-tuning for model style steering
“One thing I will say is that I think people have slept on the preference fine tuning offering or the, I think that's what we call the product. So SFT is, people know it pretty well. It's the original fine tuning we had, whereas this preference fine tuning is s…”
Apr 15, 2025 positive
Apr 15, 2025 neutral
OpenAI uses its own models to categorize anonymized developer prompts
“Well, I will say we do use our own products internally where we can, and so we're not manually by hand reading every prompt. After they're like anonymized, we scrub them with any identifying data, then we use our models to take passes to categorize them.”
Apr 15, 2025 positive
Apr 15, 2025 positive
OpenAI is working to inject GPT-4.5's humor and nuance into future models
“We're working on incorporating kind of those improvements into the models more generally. People loved about 4.5 is like the humor, the green text, the nuance. So we've heard that feedback and I know, yeah, there's lots of folks working on that and trying to b…”
Apr 15, 2025 positive
OpenAI launches GPT-4.1 model lineup featuring 1M-token context window
“Yeah, I'll just say we released three new models today, GPT-Fort.one, GPT-Fort.one mini, and GPT-Fort.one data, and the real focus on these were just making the models that were great for developers so we improved instruction following, coding, and shipped our…”
Apr 15, 2025 bullish
Pokrass: AI model gains now driven by post-training, not larger pre-trains
“We find that actually a significant amount of the gains come from new post-training techniques. So I think in the past the narrative is that you need to pre-train these larger and larger models to get better performance, and we're finding that we're able to sq…”
Apr 15, 2025 negative
Apr 15, 2025 neutral
Apr 15, 2025 neutral
Pokrass: Prototype with GPT-4.1, then downscale for latency or upscale for reasoning
“I think the answer is always going to be the fastest model that accomplishes your task, right? So maybe you start prompting 4.1 as a starting point if it does your task super well, Then maybe you could drop down a 4.1 mini and save latency, or even nano. Where…”
Apr 15, 2025 neutral
Apr 15, 2025
Apr 15, 2025
GPT-4.1's multimodal vision improvements stem from pre-training, not post-training
“We talked about like coding instruction following long context, a lot of gains coming from post training, but in particular multimodal, like basically everything you're seeing, the gains are there from pre-training.”
Apr 15, 2025 bearish
Apr 15, 2025 positive
Pokrass: Use XML for structuring LLM inputs and JSON for parsing outputs
“I do think XML is very helpful for structuring prompts, whereas for parsing outputs maybe the story is a bit different. Like sometimes it's really useful to get outputs in JSON, so you can plug them directly into your application. But I do think the models wor…”
Apr 15, 2025 bullish
Apr 15, 2025 positive
Apr 23, 2025 positive
Claude is far better than OpenAI at slang and Gen Z tone
“Whenever we need to do stuff that's a little more conversational or like a little more like a little better at slang, like Claude is way better at slang. Like whenever you ask like Claude to generate something that's like, that sounds like human or like sounds…”
Apr 24, 2025 neutral
Fanelli: Anthropic scrapes 6,000 pages per referral, compared to OpenAI's 250
“Google would be a two to one crawl to referral ratio, so for every two pages, they will read, they will send you one visitor. He said OpenAI is 250 to one, so they'll read 250 of your pages and send you one person. And Anthropic was like 6000 to one. So they'l…”
May 9, 2025 negative
No open-source model currently matches OpenAI's general agent capabilities
“There really isn't currently an open source model that behaves in the way that these models do. We have things like R-one, which are great at kind of the single-term math and code reasoning problems. But they are not in the general purpose agents world yet.”
May 16, 2025 neutral
Josh Ma: Software engineering stays human-centric due to review and deployment
“As long as you see humans and AI writing it, like maybe there's a world where it's only AI's maintaining a code base and the assumptions change, but the moment you start to break that fourth wall and a human's coming in, doing code review, deploying the code, …”
May 16, 2025 negative
Embiricos: Scaffolding-heavy AI agents are limited by developers' mental capacity
“A lot of, like, agents that I see are really impressive, but it's basically, like, part of what's impressive is it's like a bunch of developers building this, like, really bespoke state machine around a bunch of, like, short model calls, and so then the upper …”
May 16, 2025 positive
Embiricos: OpenAI open-sourced Codex CLI to standardize agent safety
“Part of why we made the Codex CLI open source is, like, a lot of problems, like, safety issues that you need to figure out for how to deploy these things safely, and no one should have to figure these out, like, more than once. So, that's why we went for, like…”
May 16, 2025 positive
Embiricos: The best Codex users spend 30 seconds max prompt crafting
“The way we see people who, like, love Codex the most using it is they don't, they think for, like, maybe 30 seconds max about their prompt. It's just like, oh, I have this idea, like, boom. Oh, like, there's this thing I wanna do, like, boom. Oh, like, I just …”
May 16, 2025 neutral
May 16, 2025 bullish
Embiricos: OpenAI Prioritizing Multimodal Inputs and Tool Integration for Codex
“Some of the items that are top of mind for me are, like, multimodal inputs. You know, we've talked, yeah, I know you find that, right? Yeah, like, another, another example would be, like, you know, just giving it a little bit more access to the world. You know…”
May 16, 2025 positive
Embiricos: Specialized domain training yields outsized returns in general models
“If you can, like, build, do something very specific for, like, a specific purpose, actually, when you bring that and you bring it into the generalized model, like, you might even get outsized returns on that. Because there's, like, transfer from all these diff…”
May 16, 2025 neutral
Josh Ma: ChatGPT Codex cuts off internet access during agent execution
“Once the agent starts running, right what we actually do today, and we're hoping to like evolve on this, is we'll cut off internet access because we still don't fully understand what letting loose an agent in his own environment is going to do.”
May 16, 2025 positive
May 16, 2025 bullish
Jun 19, 2025 bullish
Jun 19, 2025 bearish
Jun 19, 2025 bullish
Brown: OpenAI team is scaling test-time compute to hours and days
“The team, in many ways, is actually a misnomer, because we're working on more than just multi-agent. Multi-agent is one of the things we're working on. Some other things we're working on is just like being able to scale up test time compute by a ton. So how, y…”
Jun 19, 2025 bullish
Brown: Reasoning models will progress rapidly into agentic behavior
“I think that we're going to continue to see, as I said before, that we're going to see this paradigm continue to progress rapidly. And I think that that's true even today, that we saw that with like going from O-one preview to O-one to O-three, consistent prog…”
Jun 19, 2025 neutral
Jun 19, 2025 bullish
Brown: Data for reinforcement fine-tuning survives future model scaling
“I think the difference is that like for reinforcement fine tuning, you're collecting data that's going to be useful As the models improve as well. So if we come out with, like, future models that are even more capable, you could still fine tune them on your da…”
Jun 19, 2025 positive
Brown: OpenAI saw conclusive proof of its reasoning paradigm in late 2023
“I think it was around, like, November, twenty-twenty-three, or October, twenty-twenty-three, when I think I was convinced that we had, like, very conclusive signs of life, that, like, oh, this was going to be, this is the paradigm, and it's going to be a big d…”
Jun 19, 2025 neutral
Jun 19, 2025 bearish
Brown: Pre-training scaling will hit economic limits before superintelligence without reasoning
“Like, we're gonna scale it, sure, we're gonna scale these things up by a few more orders of magnitude, they're gonna become more capable, but we're not gonna see superintelligence from just that. And like, yes, if we had a quadrillion dollars to train these mo…”
Jun 19, 2025 positive
Noam Brown: OpenAI succeeded early by betting on scaling over small experiments
“One of OpenAI's big success was betting on the scaling paradigm. It is just kind of odd because, you know, they were not the biggest lab, you know, it was, like, difficult for them to scale. Back then, it was much more common to do, like, a lot of small experi…”
Jun 19, 2025 positive
Brown: OpenAI models undergo mid-training and post-training before release
“For open AI models, like, they go through a mid-training step, and then they go through a post-training step, and then they're released, and they're a lot more useful. Like, frankly, if you interacted with the only pre-trained model, it would be super difficul…”
Jul 11, 2025 bullish
Jul 18, 2025 positive
Marimo Surpasses 300K Monthly PyPI Downloads and Jupyter's GitHub Stars
“I think last I checked, over 300,000 monthly downloads on PyPy. More GitHub stars than Jupyter Notebook for whatever that's worth. And we're used at companies like OpenAI, Hugging Face, Cloudflare, BlackRock, universities like Stanford and Berkeley.”
Jul 18, 2025 neutral
Jul 23, 2025
McCloy: ChatGPT personalization and custom preferences directly alter AI search retrieval and sources
“ChatGPT personalization, memories, just explicit preferences, if you set them up, do definitely affect the results you get. Now, Again, obviously, there's, they're still using traditional search, so the search index itself is not necessarily personalized, but …”
Jul 23, 2025
McCloy: Stopping LLMs broadly from consuming web content will be nearly impossible
“You can fight the battle, I think, of saying, OpenAI shouldn't consume your content without paying for it, or shouldn't consume it at all. But I think it's gonna be really tough to fight the battle of saying, like, LLMs writ large shouldn't consume my content,…”
Jul 23, 2025 bullish
McCloy: ChatGPT holds the most durable consumer presence among AI platforms
“ChatGPT, I would say, by far, in a way, is the thing that people think about as being an AI platform that has the strongest consumer presence and the most durable relationship with consumers.
Right.
So everything else is kind of a distant second.”
Jul 24, 2025 neutral
Jul 24, 2025 positive
Jul 24, 2025 positive
Zhang confirms OpenAI's unverified IMO proofs are mathematically correct
“I read the proof that it's still correct, but it's just, like, less official, and that's why people kind of, like, kind of OpenAI received a few backlash over the weekend, and on Monday, DeepMind officially confirmed they have the gold medal and also fully ver…”
Jul 24, 2025 positive
DeepMind and OpenAI eliminated formal Lean translation for 2025 IMO solutions
“What surprised me is this time they don't use formal language, but instead they just use LM. And so last year when they tried to do the IMO, they need like a like a human to kind of translate the natural language. Problems to Lean, and then they use Lean to ki…”
Jul 28, 2025 bullish
Jul 29, 2025 positive
Jul 29, 2025
Fortuna: RFT on 100 examples costs thousands vs. $100 for SFT
“With like SFT, let's say you're using the OpenAI, you know, to do some supervised fine turning, you'll probably have like, you know, maybe a few thousand examples. The job takes a few hours. It costs you like a hundred bucks, right? With RFT, maybe you have li…”
Jul 31, 2025 neutral
Lambert: Deep Research relies on modular RL tasks rather than end-to-end outcomes
“I think the deep research blog post kind of hints that they do a bunch of small scale RL and then poof, the system works. Which I think is much more of what's happening is people train on a bunch of small things and they do some prompting and they see that whe…”
Jul 31, 2025 positive
Lambert: OpenAI's Model Spec is more useful than Anthropic's Constitution
“The model spec is much more useful than a constitution because the constitution is like an intermediate training artifact that you give to the training algorithm in order to get the model that you want. It is not necessarily like what model did we, like we don…”
Jul 31, 2025 neutral
Lambert: LMSYS is probably setting up a deep research arena
“I mean, they're probably setting up a deep research arena, because that's the data that, I mean, if I was open AI working on deep research, that's the data that I want, and there are competitors, and LMSYS is the entity that has the market placement to set it …”
Jul 31, 2025 positive
Jul 31, 2025 neutral
Lambert: Inference scaling plots misleadingly suggest search is an easy control knob
“The core of that article is just, they're taking points from within training, or there's a natural variance, and then you line them up. And if you line them up, then you get this nice inference time-scaling behavior, which is, and now people, a lot of people h…”
Jul 31, 2025 neutral
Jul 31, 2025 bullish
Aug 6, 2025 neutral
Aug 6, 2025 positive
Early GPT-5 testers report noticeable gains across coding, science, and writing
“And the story that we wrote, we kind of talked about how at least the people that we've talked to who tested it so far have been pretty impressed. They seem to think that it's been, you know, there's been improvements in a number of domains and both like scien…”
Aug 15, 2025 positive
Brockman: As AI capability increases, the value of generated tokens scales dramatically
“One thing that Ilya used to say a lot that I think is, is, is very, very astute is that when the models are not very capable, right? That the value of a token that they generate is very low. When the models are extremely capable, the value of a token they gene…”
Aug 15, 2025 neutral
Aug 15, 2025 bullish
Aug 15, 2025 positive
Brockman: Open-source AI creates tech stack dependency beneficial to OpenAI and the US
“Another thing at a very practical level that we've thought about with open source models is that people building on our open source model are kind of building on our tech stack, right? If you are relying on us to help improve the model that you're relying on u…”
Aug 15, 2025 neutral
Aug 15, 2025 neutral
Aug 15, 2025 positive
Aug 15, 2025 positive
Brockman: Instruction hierarchy orders trust by system, developer, and user
“With instruction hierarchy, you sort of indicate that, hey, there's this message is from the system. This message is from the developer. This message is from the user and that they should be trusted in that order. And so that way the model can know something t…”
Aug 15, 2025 positive
Brockman: LLMs consistently generalize to untrained preferences
“In order to get them to be able to operate according to different preferences and values, we just need to show that to them during training, and they are able to sort of generalize to different preferences and values that we didn't actually train against, and …”
Aug 15, 2025 positive
Brockman: Best AI codebases use modular units with fast unit tests
“The thing I've seen be most successful is that you really build code bases Around the strengths and weaknesses of these models. And so what that means is more self-contained units have very good unit tests that run super quickly and that have good documentatio…”
Aug 15, 2025 positive
Aug 15, 2025 positive
Brockman: AI developer productivity gains will increase demand for engineers
“The productivity impacts of people being able to do more means we actually want more people, right? It's like we are so limited by the ability to produce software, so limited by the ability of our team to actually clean up tech debt and go and refactor things,…”
Aug 15, 2025 positive
Aug 15, 2025 neutral
Brockman: OpenAI trained GPT-5 with feedback from interactive coding applications
“The second thing we did Was we really spent a long time seeing how are people using it in interactive coding applications? And just taking a ton of feedback and feeding that back into our training. And that was something we didn't try as hard in the past, righ…”
Aug 15, 2025
Aug 15, 2025
Aug 15, 2025 bullish
Brockman: Neural networks learn biological language as naturally as human text
“Why should human language be any more natural to a neural net than biological language? And the answer is, they're not, right? That, that actually these things are literally the same hardware. Exactly, and so one of the amazing hypotheses is that it's like, we…”
Aug 15, 2025 bullish
Brockman: AI models will soon get very good at CUDA kernels
“Things like Cuda kernels are a good example of a very self-contained problem that actually our models should get very good at very soon, but it's just difficult because it requires a lot of domain expertise, a lot of like real abstract thinking. But again, it'…”
Aug 15, 2025
Brockman: OpenAI's robotics team pivoted to build GitHub Copilot
“And we've been through times where, for example, robotics was one in 2018, where we had a great result, but we kind of realized that actually, like, that we can move so much faster in a different domain, right? That, that actually, you know, we had this great …”
Aug 15, 2025
Brockman: GPT-4 handled multi-turn chat without being trained on it
“We actually did a instruction following post-train on it, so it was really just a data set that was, here's a query, here's what the model completion should be, and I remember that we were like, well, what happens if you just follow up with another query? And …”
Aug 15, 2025 bullish
Brockman: GPT-5 is OpenAI's most personalizable model to date
“And GPT-V itself is extremely good at instruction following. And so it actually is the most personalizable model that we've ever produced. You can have it operate according to whatever you prefer, just by saying it, just by providing that instruction.”
Aug 15, 2025 positive
Brockman: AGI will be a menagerie of models, not a single model
“The flip side, though, is that I think that the evidence has been away from having the final form factor, the AGI itself being a single model. But instead thinking about this menagerie of models that have different strengths and weaknesses.”
Aug 15, 2025
Brockman: OpenAI Dota used pure RL without human demonstrations
“If you rewind to even 2017, we were working on Dota, which was all reinforcement learning, no behavioral cloning from human demonstrations or anything. It was just From a randomly initialized neural net, you'd get these amazingly complicated, very sophisticate…”
Aug 15, 2025 bullish
Aug 15, 2025 positive
Brockman: Wet lab tests of o3 produced mid-tier journal-level work
“We have wet lab scientists who took models like O-three, ask it for some hypotheses of, here's an experimental setup, what should I do? They have five ideas, They tried these five ideas out, four of them don't work, but one of them does. And the kind of feedba…”
Sep 8, 2025 bearish
Gorkem: Hosting LLMs is a bad business due to Google search competition
“Language models, hosting language models is not a good business. At the time we thought, okay, we are going to be competing against OpenAI and Anthropic and all these labs. Turned, turned out that it was even worse because the killer application of language mo…”
Sep 8, 2025 bullish
Sep 11, 2025 bullish
Martin: OpenDeep Research is the top-ranked open-source Deep Research agent
“OpenDeep Research is a deep research agent that I've been working on for about a year, and it's now, according to Deep Research Spence, the best performing Deep Research agent at least on that particular benchmark. So it's pretty good. Listen, it's not as good…”
Sep 25, 2025 negative
Oct 1, 2025 positive
Feldman: Sam Altman and Ilya Sutskever invested in Cerebras' early rounds
“In 2016, we met with Sam Altman and Ilya Suskovard at OpenAI and they were an idea and we were PowerPoint, right? That's amazing. And what AI was doing was identifying cats in pictures. And I think they ended up investing in us, both of them and many of their …”
Oct 7, 2025 positive
Oct 7, 2025 positive
Oct 7, 2025 bullish
Oct 7, 2025 neutral
Oct 7, 2025 positive
Oct 7, 2025 positive
OpenAI integrates with OpenRouter for multi-provider evals
“We have a really cool setup with Open Router, where we're working with them, and then you can bring your Open Router setup. And then with that, you can actually, you know, you write your evals using our data sets tool, or use our data set tool to create a bunc…”
Oct 7, 2025 bullish
Oct 7, 2025 positive
Oct 7, 2025 positive
OpenAI Codex successfully one-shots entire features 30% to 40% of the time
“What a lot of the interns would do is just, like, full YOLO mode, like, trust it to, like, write the whole feature. And it, like, it doesn't work. It, like, doesn't work sometimes. But, like, I don't know, like, 30, 40% of the time it just, like, one-shots it.”
Oct 7, 2025 neutral
Wu: Managing and serving fine-tuned snapshots is extremely difficult for OpenAI
“We have a fine-tuning API, and, like, it is extremely difficult for us to run, you know, and serve, like, all of these different snapshots... But like, man, it is like pretty difficult for us to like manage all of these different snapshots.”
Oct 7, 2025 neutral
Oct 7, 2025 positive
Oct 7, 2025 bullish
Prompt engineering has grown more entrenched despite predictions of its demise
“I feel like two years ago, people were like, oh, at some point, prop, like, prompting's gonna be dead. Like, you know, and it's like, you know... And if anything, it is, like, become more and more entrenched. And I think that, you know, there's this interestin…”
Oct 7, 2025 positive
Huang: Chat Interfaces Should Be Standardized Drop-in Components Like Stripe Checkout
“Yeah, so it's very similar philosophically, right? So Stripe, you know, can build elements and check out, and not every business needs to rebuild, right, the pieces that are really common, and I think we see the same with chat. We see chat being built over and…”
Oct 7, 2025 positive
Oct 7, 2025 neutral
Wu: OpenAI has no current plans to become a generic IdP
“Direct answer is like no plans right now, of course but I actually think we currently have some version of this, which is our partnership with Apple because with Apple, you can actually sign in to your ChatGPT account, and some of that identity does carry with…”
Oct 7, 2025 positive
John Schulman developed the Tinker API concept across OpenAI and Anthropic
“Right when I joined OpenAI, like, this has actually been, I think, a passion project of John's. Like, he's been talking about doing something in this, like, in this shape for a while, which is, like, a truly, like, low-level research, like, fine-tuning library…”
Oct 7, 2025 neutral
Oct 11, 2025 neutral
Oct 11, 2025 negative
Lenz: Model providers should not dictate enterprise AI policies
“Right now, if you're using a model, you're taking in their own policy. Even if I want to use GPT-OSS, I've taken in a lot of different policies about what to abstain from, what's considered dangerous and not dangerous, how I should behave, etc. And I don't thi…”
Oct 16, 2025 bullish
Swix: OpenAI will issue a cryptocurrency token to fund compute
“There is still one more shoe to drop, which is the non sovereign wealth funding that open AI needs to get, which they've promised to drop by the end of this year.
And my money is on, they have to do a coin.
Like it's, I'm not a crypto guy at all, but like, y…”
Oct 24, 2025 neutral
Webster: Enterprises do not want AI models to be maximally helpful
“OpenAI Anthropic, everyone else, they're all building models that are like maximally helpful. And in Actually, most cases in a corporate environment, you don't want that to be maximum. You don't want the model to be like helpful in every way possible.”
Nov 2, 2025 bullish
Nov 3, 2025 neutral
Nov 14, 2025 neutral
Nov 14, 2025 bullish
Nov 14, 2025 bullish
OpenAI Has Effectively Won the Consumer AI Market
“Now that means we're at a point in consumer where, maybe this is too early to say, but OpenAI has kind of won, right? Like, How do you catch up to something where model quality is not going to be differentiated? You already have the users, you already have the…”
Nov 14, 2025 bearish
AI Labs Will Not Dedicate Engineering Talent to Deep Enterprise Search
“If you really want to go deep, I don't think you will ever dedicate the people to do it. And the last thing I'll say is you think about from an anthropic engineer's perspective, you joined a big AI lab to work on models, not to build Google drive connectors, r…”
Nov 14, 2025 neutral
OpenAI Spent $7 Billion on Compute, With $5 Billion for R&D
“This year, OpenAI spent seven billion dollars on compute. Only two of that was for all of their inference. The remaining five was R&D. So all of ChatGPT, all eight hundred million users, all of Sora, all of like, all, all the sort of like API volume, two billi…”
Nov 14, 2025
Nov 14, 2025 bullish
AI Coding Intelligence Has an Uncapped Frontier That Drives Revenue
“But the interesting about Anthropic is if you look at coding, that's probably never going to be the case. Like there's always an increasing frontier of how you good you could be at a task like that. And we're nowhere close to that frontier. So it's more possib…”
Nov 14, 2025 neutral
Nov 14, 2025
Nov 14, 2025 negative
Dec 7, 2025 neutral
Dec 7, 2025 positive
Dec 11, 2025
Dec 11, 2025 positive
Dec 26, 2025 positive
Dec 26, 2025 bullish
Chen: AI software abstraction is shifting from raw models to packaged agents
“So we're actually shipping this Entirety, entire agent altogether, then you can actually build on top of that agent. That's one of the patterns that we're seeing here is rather than focusing on optimizing with every single model release, you're actually just b…”
Dec 26, 2025 positive
Dec 26, 2025 bullish
Dec 26, 2025 bullish
Fioca: Coding agents enable self-customizing software by writing integrations at runtime
“So now if it doesn't have a tool, it can make a tool that it needs to solve a problem, right? So that's like another layer of abstraction and it's not just coding. You can write software that has an agent that can spin up a codex instance and write a custom pl…”
Dec 26, 2025 bullish
Dec 26, 2025
Fioca: AI models develop operational habits during training analogous to muscle memory
“This is one of the coolest things about, like, model training is literally, like, they develop habits. It's just like a person does. Like, if you're, like, working on some podcasting tool, right, you're really good at editing, and then somebody makes you use a…”
Dec 26, 2025 neutral
Dec 26, 2025 bullish
Dec 26, 2025 neutral
Dec 26, 2025
Fioca: Raw frontier models resemble new PhD hires needing explicit job prompts
“I like to think of it as like we have, I mean, people say it's a PhD in, in an API, right? But you, if you know, you hire a PhD student, they don't know how to do the job. You have to give them a job description. Okay. That's a prompt, right? So now you have y…”
Dec 26, 2025 positive
Chen: Naming custom tools identically to terminal tools boosts Codex performance
“We found some, like, partners of ours, like, they discovered that what you can do is that you can actually still have a lot of the tools just named in the same way as the terminal tools, as well as having the same input and output. And all of a sudden, the too…”
Dec 26, 2025 positive
Dec 26, 2025
Dec 26, 2025 positive
Fioca: GPT-5 matches Codex coding capability but adds step-by-step preambles
“With the five series, because it's more general, and it's just about as good as coding as codex for a lot of things. We've taught it to be more communicative. And so it has preambles before tool calls. It'll say things like, I'm about to go look for this.”
Dec 26, 2025 bullish
Yegge: OpenAI sees a 10x productivity gap between AI adopters and non-adopters
“Anecdotally, they're sharing that performance, the performance differences like 10 X By any way that you measure it. So lines of code, commits, business impact, whatever. And it's so stark and pronounced that the people who aren't adopting it are now 10 times …”
Dec 26, 2025 negative
Dec 28, 2025 positive
OpenAI is contributing AgentsMD to the new Agentic AI Foundation ecosystem
“In a similar way, the agentic foundation is, well, it's a foundation, but also it's like the starting point where I really look forward to other contributions, like starting with Goose, our own AgentsMD, where we're really open for like a lot of technical cont…”
Dec 28, 2025 positive
Dec 28, 2025 positive
Agent ecosystems need common standards but diverse, competing concrete agent implementations
“Like, agents.md is an example, which is open up any GitHub repository, it has this file, it works the same way. Like, if everyone sort of did their own thing there, That's very low value, potentially damaging in a way. But so there's commonality value, whereas…”
Dec 28, 2025 bullish
Altman, Nadella, and Pichai publicly committed to adopting MCP around April
“And then like, you had this like inflection point around April with like Sam Altman and Satya and Sundar and all posting about like MCP and that they're going to adopt MCP at Microsoft, at Google. At OpenAI and that was really like the big inflection point.”
Dec 28, 2025 positive
Dec 28, 2025 neutral
AAIF began when Block asked Anthropic about donating the Goose agent
“We got approached by our friends at block to discuss because they were looking into like donating goose, I think at the time. And so there was a question around doing something together. And then we approached open AI and they were very, very welcoming and lik…”
Dec 30, 2025 positive
Nair: Public corporate boards may govern AI more democratically than non-profit boards
“When the blip happened, one of my reactions was like, well, you know, this nonprofit board stuff, like, actually, if it takes such somewhat, like, surprising, Maybe erratic actions, like maybe you'd rather just have, like, you know, a thing like the Microsoft …”
Dec 30, 2025
Nair: Internal Slack posts replaced reading external papers at OpenAI
“Unfortunately I've like, kind of gotten the habit, especially at OpenAI, of like, not reading that much external work, and just like reading people's like, Slack posts internally. That's like the main, like, way to like, you know like, learn new stuff.”
Dec 30, 2025 positive
Nair: Sutskever and Pachocki Drove OpenAI's First-Principles Research Conviction
“I think in general, OpenAI is really good about, like, having conviction in something, and just, like, really, like, from first principles, like, going after it, and I think, like, the people who are kind of most responsible for that is probably, like, Ilya Se…”
Dec 30, 2025 bullish
Dec 30, 2025 neutral
Dec 30, 2025 neutral
Dec 30, 2025 bullish
Nair: OpenAI internal models surpassed forecasters' 2027 benchmark targets before o1 launch
“And their estimates were, like, oh, we'll be at, like, 10, 20% in, like, 20, 27, and I think at the time, there was, like, you know, models internally that were, like, already better than their estimates, so that, like, it's, like, off by, like, you know, two …”
Dec 30, 2025
Dec 30, 2025 neutral
Nair: RL on LLMs is peaky and fails to generalize beyond training
“RL, the way it's applied to LLMs right now, is kind of a weird, funny tool where it doesn't really generalize beyond the training distribution that much. It generalizes to some extent, and generalizes in interesting ways, but It's like very peaky, right? Like …”
Dec 31, 2025
Dec 31, 2025 neutral
Dec 31, 2025 positive
Dec 31, 2025 positive
Dec 31, 2025 bullish
McGrath: AGI will be a single tool that decides its own thinking time
“Yeah, I think, like, eventually, you know, we'll have AGI, and like, you're not gonna have to worry too much about how hard to think directly. It'll just, you know, we'll have a one tool that you always go to, and it knows how long to think for, and things lik…”
Dec 31, 2025 positive
Dec 31, 2025 positive
Dec 31, 2025 positive
Dec 31, 2025 neutral
McGrath: AI Frontier Is Bottlenecked by Shortage of Hybrid Systems-ML Talent
“I think we're still having trouble not at OpenAI, but I think as a whole, producing lots of people that do lot, want to do lots of both systems work and ML work. And I think if you're trying to push the frontier, you don't know which Place is currently bottlen…”
Dec 31, 2025
McGrath: RL runs have far more infrastructure failure points than pre-training
“The issue with RL is, like, you're doing tasks, and each task could have, like, a different grading setup, and each one of those different grading setups, that's, like, more infrastructure, and so, You know, when I'm staying up late trying to figure out what's…”
Dec 31, 2025 negative
Jan 9, 2026 neutral
Jan 27, 2026 bullish
Jan 27, 2026 bullish
Jan 27, 2026 bullish
Powell: AI tools will progress to running multi-day autonomous scientific analyses
“I do think that's sort of the progression where it's like, Doing, doing maybe work for a few seconds versus maybe we're already at a point where it's doing work for a few minutes, eventually doing work for hours, days, coming back with very complicated analysi…”
Jan 27, 2026 positive
Jan 27, 2026 bullish
Weil: 2026 for AI in science will mirror 2025 software engineering
“I think, 2026 for ai and science is going to look a lot like what 2025 looked like for soft ai and software engineering yeah where if you go back to the beginning of 2025 if you were using ai heavily to write your code you were sort of an early adopter and lik…”
Jan 27, 2026 neutral
Weil: Editor UIs will converge as AI interaction replaces direct document editing
“The UI probably changes for all of these things, right? You don't need your document front and center because you're actually not looking at your document as much. You're, that's sort of your backup and your interaction with your AI is primary. And as that hap…”
Jan 27, 2026
Jan 27, 2026 positive
Jan 28, 2026 neutral
Jan 28, 2026 neutral
White: OpenAI reached out to red team new models after reading his chemistry paper
“And then opening eye, some people there Lama was there. She saw this paper, and they reached out, like, hey, we're building this new model, and we think it'd be great to red team it to see, like, what could happen with these models if they're applied to chemis…”
Feb 10, 2026
Pre-December 2024 OpenAI models did not exhibit seahorse emoji self-correction loops
“And so I like ran the OpenAI API across like models released from 23 to 25, and you would see like all the models until twenty-twenty-four December had very Terce and short responses to the question. Is there a seahorse emoji? They would either say that there …”
Feb 10, 2026 neutral
Self-reflection training data is now core to all frontier foundation models
“What this suggests about the GPT training data is that the self-reflection data has now actually become pretty much core to the training of all frontier models, because we're seeing that happen in non-instruct models across the board.”
Feb 19, 2026 bullish
Feb 23, 2026 neutral
Watkins: OpenAI will probably not release proprietary AI research coding benchmarks
“Because a lot of the, like, you know, state-of-the-art AI code bases are proprietary. So if we make evals for that, like, we're probably not gonna release them. And it's harder for people in the field to make evals that kind of measure, like, is this a realist…”
Feb 23, 2026 neutral
Feb 23, 2026 bearish
Feb 23, 2026 negative
Watkins: Over half of SWE-bench problems investigated by OpenAI had test flaws
“In over half of the problems that were investigated in that deep dive, there was one problem or the other. I think the most common problem are, like, overly narrow tests where there's some particular implementation detail that the tests were looking for but wa…”
Feb 23, 2026
Watkins: OpenAI hired nearly 100 engineers to curate 500 SWE-bench tasks
“So folks at OpenAI did a pretty extensive human data campaign, hiring like almost a hundred real-world software engineers to go through the problems and figure out, like, are the tasks well-specified? Are the tests actually fair and kind of created a curated s…”
Feb 23, 2026 negative
Watkins: SWE-bench Verified is contaminated across OpenAI, Claude, and Gemini models
“And in SweetBenchVerified, we found many instances of contamination across like, across OpenEye models, across, like, Quad Opus, 4.5, Gemini Flash, and all of these, we saw things like regurgitating the ground truth solutions, things like in some cases giving,…”
Mar 14, 2026 neutral
Pydantic built a VIP issue scorer after closing an OpenAI founder's ticket
“Basically this started off because one of the OpenAI co-founders created an issue on Pydantic. And we just closed it and said it was wrong. And so we have this that, like, injects itself and tries to summarize someone and it gives them a, like, brutal score of…”
Mar 20, 2026 positive
Dreamer uses continuous evaluations to dynamically route tasks across AI models
“Dreamer actually uses all of the state-of-the-art models. As a user, you don't have to think about, should I be using, you know, Opus four six, or should I be using the five four model from OpenAI? We are continually doing evals and so forth to make sure that …”
Mar 30, 2026 positive
Apr 2, 2026 bearish
Manning: OpenAI's Sora cannot produce compelling gameplay or persistent mechanics
“Don't think you can take Sora and produce compelling gameplay, right? If you want to have a world that you can wander around in a bit, you're good, but what are your abilities to have gameplay mechanics implemented the way you'd like them to be, and to have th…”
Apr 7, 2026 positive
Apr 7, 2026 positive
Lopopolo: Standardizing codebase structure and skills maximizes AI agent effectiveness
“I do think that there is leverage to be had in making the code and the processes as much the same as possible. If you think that code is context, code is prompts, it's better from the agent behavior perspective to be able to look in a package in directory XYZ …”
Apr 7, 2026 positive
Lopopolo: BEAM process supervision gives agent orchestration free concurrency
“The process supervision and the gen servers are super amenable to the type of process orchestration that we're doing here, right? You are essentially spinning up little daemons for every task that is in execution and driving it to completion, which means the m…”
Apr 7, 2026 positive
Apr 7, 2026
Apr 7, 2026 positive
Lopopolo: AI-amplified small teams require extreme package decomposition and strict boundaries
“The structure of the repository is like, 500 NPM packages. It's like architecture to the access for what you would consider, I think, normal for a seven person team. But if every person is actually, like, 10 to 50. Then the, like, numbers on, like, being super…”
Apr 7, 2026 bullish
Apr 7, 2026 bearish
Lopopolo: Bearish on MCP due to forced token injection and compaction issues
“MCPs I'm pretty bearish on because the harness forcibly injects all those tokens in the context and I don't really get a say over it. They mess with auto compaction. The agent can forget how to use the tool. There's probably only like, what, three calls in Pla…”
Apr 7, 2026 bullish
Lopopolo: Coding models have largely solved all tasks except hard and new
“And I think things that are hard and new is still something that the models need humans. Yeah. Drive. Yeah. But I think those other quadrants are largely solved, given the right scaffold and the right thing that's going to drive the agent to completion.”
Apr 7, 2026 positive
Lopopolo: OpenAI feeds 12-month business vision and customer context to agents
“One thing that's in core beliefs.md is like,
Who's on the team, what product we're building, who our end customers are, who our pilot customers are, what the full vision of what we want to achieve over the next 12 months is.
Like these are all bits of context …”
Apr 7, 2026 positive
Lopopolo: Better AI models propose their own code abstractions
“As the models have gotten better, they have gotten better at proposing these abstractions to unblock themselves, which again, lets me move higher and higher up the stack to look deeper into the future on what ultimately blocked the team from shipping.”
Apr 7, 2026
Lopopolo: OpenAI Frontier codebase operates on approximately six core skills
“So like in our code base, we have, I think six skills. That's it. And if some part of the software development loop is not being covered, Our first attempt is to encode it in one of the existing setup skills, which means that we can change the agent behavior m…”
Apr 7, 2026 positive
Lopopolo: Fast Spark models excel at prototyping, docs, and lint healing
“It's very great for spiking out prototypes, exploring ideas quickly, doing those documentation updates. It, Is fantastic for us in taking that feedback and transforming it into a lint where we already have good infrastructure for ES lints in the code base. The…”
Apr 7, 2026 neutral
Apr 7, 2026 positive
Lopopolo: Harness engineering codifies implicit engineering standards into agent context
“The whole meta of the thing is to basically tease out of the heads of all the engineers on my team, what they think good looks like, what they would do by default. Or what they would coach a new hire on the team to do, to get things to merge. And that's why we…”
Apr 7, 2026 positive
Apr 7, 2026 bullish
Apr 7, 2026 bullish
Lopopolo: Codex authors Grafana dashboards and handles on-call incident paging
“Like the dashboard thing you mentioned, we have Codex authoring the JSON for the Grafana dashboards and publishing them, and also responding to the pages, which means when it gets the page, it knows exactly which dashboards are defined and what alerts. What al…”
Apr 7, 2026
Lopopolo: OpenAI used iterative Codex loops to generate Symphony specs
“Like we have taken all the scaffolding that has existed in our proprietary repo, spun up a new one. Ask codex with our repo as a reference. Write the spec. We tell it, spin up a tmux, spawn a disconnected codex to implement the spec. Wait for it to be done. Sp…”
Apr 7, 2026 bullish
Lopopolo: AI models can in-house 2,000-line dependencies in an afternoon
“The level of complexity of the dependencies that we can internalize is I would say low medium right now, right? Just based on model capability. What is medium? I would say like a couple thousand line dependency is a thing that we could in house no problem in a…”
Apr 7, 2026 neutral
Lopopolo: Symphony discards failed PRs entirely to regenerate from scratch
“In Symfony, there's this like rework state where once the PR is proposed and it's escalated to the human for review, it should be a cheap review, right? It is either mergeable or it is not. And if it's not, you move it to rework. The Elixir service will comple…”
Apr 7, 2026 positive
Apr 7, 2026 negative
Apr 7, 2026 positive
Lopopolo: GPT OSS Safeguard supports custom enterprise safety specs
“The GPT OSS Safeguard model, for example.
One thing that's really cool about it is it ships the ability to interface with a safety spec.
Safety specs are things that are bespoke to enterprises.
We owe it to these folks to figure out ways for them to instrument…”
Apr 7, 2026 positive
Lopopolo: OpenAI uses an automated landing skill to delegate PR merges to Codex
“We invoke a dollar land skill and that coaches codecs to push the PR, wait for human and agent reviewers, wait for CI to be green, fix the flakes if there are any Merge upstream if the PR comes into conflict, wait for everything to pass, put it in the merge qu…”
Apr 7, 2026 positive
Lopopolo: Codex can run background builds while concurrently reviewing code
“It basically means that Codex is able to spawn commands in the background and then go continue to work while it waits for them to finish. So it can spawn an expensive build and then continue reviewing the code, for example.”
Apr 7, 2026 negative
Apr 7, 2026 positive
Lopopolo: Zero-code harness was 10x slower initially before outperforming any single engineer
“Honestly, the first month and a half was 10 times slower than I would be. But because we paid that cost, we ended up getting to something much more productive than any one engineer could be, because we built the tools, the assembly station for the agent to do …”
Apr 7, 2026 positive
Lopopolo: OpenAI Agents SDK provides an out-of-the-box agent harness
“Agents SDK is a core part of this to enable both
Startup builders as well as enterprise builders to have a works by default harness that is able to use all the best features of our models from the shell tool down to the codex harness with file attachments and …”
Apr 7, 2026 positive
Lopopolo: OpenAI uses incident pages to update repository reliability rules via Codex
“When we get a page because we're missing a timeout, for example, I can just add codecs in Slack on that page and say, I'm going to fix this by adding a timeout. Please update our reliability documentation to require that all network calls have timeouts. So I h…”
Apr 7, 2026 positive
Lopopolo: Codex reviews internalized dependencies with less friction than upstream patching
“When we deploy Codex security on the repo, it is able to deeply review and change The internalized dependencies in a much lower friction way than it would be to like push patches upstream, wait for them to be released, pull them down, make sure that's compatib…”
Apr 7, 2026 positive
Apr 7, 2026
Lopopolo: OpenAI inverts harnesses by having Codex spawn dev environments
“One neat thing here is we have tried to invert things as much as possible, which is instead of setting up an environment to spawn the coding agent into, instead we spawn the coding agent, like that's the entry point, just codex, and then we give codex via skil…”
Apr 7, 2026 positive
Apr 7, 2026 neutral
Lopopolo: Managing coding agents resembles tech leading a 500-person organization
“The mindset is very much that I'm removed from the process, right? I can't really have Deep code level opinions about things. It's as if I'm group tech leading a 500 person organization. Like, yeah, like it's not appropriate for me to be in the weeds on every …”
Apr 7, 2026 neutral
Lopopolo: OpenAI Frontier requires human-approved smoke tests before distribution
“So because we are building a native application here, we're not doing continuous deploy. Right. So there's still a human in the loop for cutting the release branch. We require a blessed human approved smoke test of the app before we promote it to distribution,…”
Apr 15, 2026
Notion Partnered With Anthropic and OpenAI to Build 30% Pass Rate Evals
“And then what we have, what we call Frontier Headroom evals, where we actively want to be at 30% pass rate. And that's actually been a effort that we took in partnership with Anthropic and OpenAI in the past maybe two or three months, because we actually hit a…”
Apr 15, 2026 negative
Apr 22, 2026 bullish
Apr 22, 2026
Parakhin: Bing Sydney first launched in India using Megatron, not OpenAI
“The funny thing, I mean, the most interesting anecdote is that Sydney was first shipped in India for and it was not noticed for a long time. And first implementation of Sydney didn't even have open AI model under it. It was during Megatron. Microsoft and the N…”
May 2, 2026 neutral
Open-source AI demand spiked on hype before reverting to frontier labs
“Like all the open source models, I think what happened was they got like very hyped and people were very interested in using them. But I think like over time, like there was a spike in usage for these models. And then it goes back to open AI, Anthropic and Goo…”
May 2, 2026
May 2, 2026
May 5, 2026 positive
ChatGPT Pro Generated Lupsasca's Exact Top Three Follow-Up Physics Questions
“You can take this page of this paper and you can feed it to ChatGPT Pro, say, like the best model we have out right now, and you can ask it, what should I do next? Give me the top three follow-up questions to ask based on this paper. I've done this experiment …”
May 5, 2026 bullish
May 5, 2026 bullish
Internal OpenAI Model Proved Gluon Amplitude Formula in 12 Hours
“We had this Internal model that could think for a very long time and was extra strong in physics. So we gave it the whole problem from scratch without actually giving it this. We just formulated the problem in a very sharp way and asked the model to solve, to …”
May 5, 2026 negative
Terry Tao Says AI Math Proofs Merely Cite Obscure References
“I talked to Terry Tao a couple of weeks ago at UCLA. We had an OpenAI event with IPAM, which is this Institute of Mathematics there. And I talked to Terry Tao and he said that in his view, all of the proofs that he's seen AI come up with in math, even the ones…”
May 5, 2026 bullish
Jun 3, 2026 positive
Jun 3, 2026 negative
Jun 4, 2026 negative
Petersson: Anthropic's Claude models uniquely exhibit emergent deceptive and cartel behaviors
“So every single model from Anthropic since have been going in this direction. And I think one interesting thing is that like, OpenAI models don't. They, Quite plainly, they don't, they behave really well. And you know, you don't know if this is like, good, lik…”
Jun 25, 2026 negative
OpenAI's Mark Chen: AI is in an evals crisis with saturated benchmarks
“So I think beyond that, the other scary thing in the field is the number of canonical gold standard benchmarks is low. And we really are kind of in an evals crisis, right? Where all the really great evals that we all know, like growing up, like taking the SAT …”
Jun 25, 2026 positive
Jun 25, 2026 bullish
Mark Chen: AI scaling laws will continue to hold
“And so I think it's just more and more of the same, right? Like more careful research engineering, more careful data engineering, more careful scaling, and it always unlocks that next ability to scale further. So I mean, it's held for You know, almost 10 order…”
Jun 25, 2026 bullish
Jun 25, 2026 neutral
OpenAI's Chen: Reinforcement learning struggles in subjective, hard-to-grade fields
“RLs traditionally had headwinds when it's come to fields that, you know, it's more kind of, Subjective than objective. So if you kind of think of, you know, one kind of, you know example of this is creative writing, where, you know, you could take two pieces o…”
Jun 25, 2026 positive
Jun 25, 2026
OpenAI's three research pillars are pre-training, RL, and alignment
“At the very highest level, right, we have an org that focuses on pre-training, right, which is, you know, giving models a lot of world knowledge. We focus on RL, like, teaching the models how to reason with that knowledge, how to chain the little insights toge…”
Jun 25, 2026 bullish
OpenAI's Chen: AI models already discover novel theorems and advance sciences
“The initial direction we took was you should move it to real world research, right? And we've seen that the models, they've gotten a lot better at just kind of discovering novel theorems and pushing the frontiers of hard sciences. Even today, right, that's no …”
Jun 25, 2026 positive
Jakob Pachocki and Ilya Sutskever overcame internal inertia to build OpenAI o1
“Even at a company like OpenAI, you would have people ask naturally, why do something when you have a machine that works? And fundamentally, you know, it's to the credit of, you know, Jakob, Ilya, many of the people who really had conviction and vision in this …”
Jun 25, 2026 bullish
Chen: OpenAI's three-year goal is models conducting end-to-end research
“When we look at our kind of three-year roadmap, right the end goal that we want to reach is one where You know, the models are just doing end-to-end research, and I think a part of that problem is just being able to have the model come up with good taste.”
Jun 25, 2026 positive
Chen: OpenAI favors unifying modalities in as few architectures as possible
“For a research lab, I think there are a lot of advantages for it to being under one. So you just have to maintain one infrastructure stack, for instance. I think the cost to, like, maintaining and scaling many infrastructure stacks at once I think that's somet…”
Jun 25, 2026 positive
Chen: Eval teams and model optimization teams must remain separate
“Yeah, I think there's a kind of interesting philosophy of separate the teams that are creating the evals from the teams that are optimizing the models themselves, because that way you don't, like, co-incentivize them, right? Like, the way the evals theme can w…”
Jun 25, 2026 positive
Mark Chen: A PhD is not necessary to excel in AI research
“There are a lot of researchers who just started out without formal training in machine learning or AI research. We've very much believed in training people up to do this. I think the real hard thing is the ability to creatively solve problems and think outside…”
Jul 22, 2026 neutral
Kant: Major AI labs did not prioritize RL for LLMs three years ago
“And the second was that reinforcement learning was going to be the biggest driver for LLM capabilities. Today, very obvious three years ago was not an opinion held or direction held at either OpenAI or Google or Anthropic or others.”
Jul 28, 2026
Jul 28, 2026 bullish
Nathan: Untapped enterprise agent market is 10x to 100x larger
“So now like we're seeing with agents, like there is Probably a contingent of like early adopters still who, you know, truly get it. We're like, you know, you can do anything. You just have to make sure the right context is there. It's connected to the right to…”
Jul 28, 2026 positive
Jul 28, 2026 neutral
Nathan: Open-ended AI chat interfaces confuse enterprise users without guided use cases
“Using these models and these products, you have this box and you can say anything to it, which is the magic, but it's on the flip side. It also means that, like, you don't know what to do with it, and in enterprise, I think a big part of that is, like, actuall…”
Jul 28, 2026
Nathan: OpenAI limits sub-agent UI visibility to prevent user overwhelm
“There's another, you know, iteration of this where like you can see exactly what they're doing and things like that, which I think is like, you know, could verge on like overwhelming with information. And so this is like the deliberate trade-off that we've mad…”
Jul 28, 2026 bullish
Nathan: OpenAI sequencing agents from developers to knowledge workers to everyone
“The vision is like bring useful agents to everyone. We started with like developers Historically are like early adopters that are willing to put up with more friction, set things up, et cetera. Like that's where, you know, Codex started. I think the next oppor…”
Jul 28, 2026
Nathan: OpenAI built its model slider fully within a site artifact
“Even the model slider that you guys were referencing earlier, like that was developed almost fully in a site. Like, you know, the collaboration between design and engineering and product on that was like on a site where we play with, you know, the affordance a…”
Jul 28, 2026 neutral
Nathan: Traditional software productivity proxies are falling apart in AI era
“I think with AI now, those proxies starting to fall apart, like, you know, and the number of tokens you use or the number of pull requests you make are like no longer like maybe as hyper correlated with that. Is your team able to hit the goal or are they on tr…”
Jul 28, 2026 positive
Nathan: OpenAI plans to keep developing Codex specifically for developers
“Like, I think we fully intend to like, you know, treat developer, like developers have been, you know, a core market for us for so long. And like, there's so much more that we can do to make Codex great specifically for software development, and we'll continue…”
Jul 28, 2026 bullish
Jul 28, 2026 positive
Nathan: Artifact quality improved dramatically over GPT-5.4 and GPT-5.5
“One of the big, like, pushes that we made for this launch was, like, artifacts, right? Like, both on the model side, like, I think if you compare this with 5.5 and 5.4 before that, you'll see that there's been pretty dramatic improvements in the quality of the…”
Jul 28, 2026 positive
Jul 28, 2026 neutral
Akshay Nathan: Software creation bottleneck has shifted to ideas and taste
“I think the bottleneck some becomes like sort of like ideas and taste, I guess. I think because anyone can build now, I think it really is the era of like bottoms up ambition. And because there's so much to be built, like you're always going to be bottlenecked…”
Jul 28, 2026
Nathan: Codex and ChatGPT Work share the same underlying agent harness
“So the harness is the same. The harness is shared. On, In both of the products, we made improvements to the harness to make it good for knowledge work, especially as it relates to plugins or computer use or artifacts. You get that power regardless of what your…”
Jul 28, 2026 neutral
Nathan: AI tooling makes motion easier, risking conflation with true progress
“I think maybe the trap is like conflating motion and progress. I think motion is much easier now than ever before because of the tooling that we have, but progress requires you to be like very prescriptive and deliberate about like what you're actually trying …”
Jul 28, 2026 bullish
Akshay Nathan: AI will make tech workers into T-shaped generalists
“My suspicion is that there's everything, everyone will be, like, T-shaped in a way, and that, like, AI will enable everyone to become a generalist. Like, you know, things that, like, I never would be able to, like, come up with a design before, and, like, even…”
Aug 11, 2026 neutral
Sep 2, 2026 neutral
Sep 2, 2026 positive
Lie: OpenAI uses Cerebras hardware internally for incident response and research
“So right now internally, they're using it for a lot of really critical use cases where the speed really, really matters. Like they're using it in like, Their incidents response teams, right? When there's an outage in their service, for example, every single se…”
Sep 2, 2026 bullish
OpenAI built a significantly better GPU than Nvidia with Jalapeno chip
“I think that, like, they, you know, they pushed a lot on the performance and the fact that they're significantly better than, you know, better performance than the GPU than NVIDIA. But what I see is that they've built a significantly better GPU. And that in it…”
Sep 2, 2026 positive