Greg Brockman
President & Co-founder, OpenAI · 1 appearance on the record.
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Greg Brockman co-founded OpenAI in 2015, initially serving as Chief Technology Officer and later President, where he oversees technical infrastructure and scaling for flagship models and tools like ChatGPT. Prior to OpenAI, he joined Stripe as an early employee in 2010 and served as its first CTO until 2015.
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Brockman: 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 …”
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Brockman: AI models are reaching parameter counts comparable to human synapses
“It's a hundred T synapses, which kind of corresponds to the weights of the neural net. And so there's some sort of equivalence there. And so we're starting to get to the right numbers. Let me just say that.”
Brockman: Physicists say GPT-5 re-derived research insights taking months of work
“We've seen physicists starting to kick the tires on GPT-V and say that, like, hey, this thing was able to get, this model was able to re-derive an insight that took me many months worth of research to produce.”
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.”
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…”
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,…”
Brockman: AI infrastructure buildout dwarfs Apollo program and New Deal
“The engineering project that we collectively as a country, as a society, as a world are undergoing right now, right? It's like projects like the New Deal, like pale in comparison, you know, the Apollo program pale in comparison to what we're doing right now.”
Brockman: Post-AGI humans will survive without work, but compute will differentiate capability
“And so I think that the question of exactly how, you know, if you don't do work, do you survive?
I think the answer will be yes.
You'll have plenty of material, your material needs met.
But I think the question of
Can you do more?
Can you have not just generat…”
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 …”
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…”
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…”
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…”
Brockman: Arc Institute trained 40B DNA model on 13T base pairs
“I'd say that maybe the neural net we produced, you know, it's a 40 B neural net trained on, you know, like 13 trillion base pairs or something like that. The results to be felt like GPT one, maybe starting to be GPT two level, right? It's like accessible or, a…”
Brockman: GPT-5 performs exceptionally well at front-end software engineering tasks
“GP five is very good at front end, it turns out.”
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.”
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 …”
Brockman: OpenAI is compute-limited, preventing further price cuts for now
“Right now we are extremely compute limited, and so I think that if we were to cut prices a lot, it wouldn't actually increase the amount that this model's used.”
Brockman: AI models must build persistent tool libraries to solve hard problems
“But the idea of producing your own tools to make you more efficient and build up a library of those over time in a persistent way, like that's an incredible primitive to have in your toolbox. And I think that if your goal is to be able to go and solve these in…”
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'…”
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 …”
Brockman: Math reasoning and proof capabilities transfer directly to competitive programming
“Learning how to solve hard math problems and write proofs turns out to actually transfer to writing program and competition problems.”
Brockman: Most AI compute will shift from training to inference
“We're going to move from a world where most of the compute is training the model as we've deployed these models more, you know, more of the compute goes to inferencing them and actually using them.”
Brockman: Software developers should manage multiple concurrent AI agents instead of one
“Because you don't want to just have one instance of the model operating. You want to have multiple, right? You want to be a manager of not an agent, but of agents.”
Brockman: OpenAI's 80% o3 price cut yielded neutral or positive revenue
“And you can see it with O three, I think we did like an 80% price cut and actually the usage grew such that it was like, I think in the revenue, it either was neutral or positive.”
Brockman: Future dev architecture will combine local, remote, and multiplayer agents
“And then you have your codex infrastructure that has a local agent and a remote agent, and that is able to seamlessly, you know, interplay between the two and then is able to multiplayer. Like, this is what the future is going to look like, and it's going to b…”
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Every mention by year
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2026 4 mentions in 2 episodes 2 per episode
2025 17 mentions in 10 episodes 2 per episode
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- The AI Architect: Bret Taylor
- Anthropic, Glean & OpenRouter: How AI Moats Are Built with Deedy Das of Menlo Ventures
- AI to AE's: Grit, Glean, and Kleiner Perkins' next Enterprise AI hit — Joubin Mirzadegan, Roadrunner
- How Zyphra went all-in on AMD + Why Devs feel faster with AI but are slower — with Quentin Anthony
- DevDay 2025: Apps SDK, Agent Kit, MCP, Codex and why Prompting is More Important than Ever
- Taste is your Moat (Dylan Field of Figma)
- ChatGPT Codex: The Missing Manual
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Appearances (1)
| Episode | Date | Speaking time |
|---|---|---|
| Greg Brockman on OpenAI's Road to AGI | Aug 15, 2025 | 50m |