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Nikunj Handa

Product Lead, OpenAI · 1 appearance on the record.

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Nikunj Handa leads developer and agent product initiatives at OpenAI, overseeing tools such as the Responses API, Agents SDK, and computer-use integrations. Prior to OpenAI, he worked in product management at Stripe focusing on payments and cards infrastructure.

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Nikunj Handa: OpenAI distilled o-series models into GPT-4o search
“They use, like, synthetic data techniques. They've done, like, O-series model distillation to, like, make these four or fine tunes really good.”
Nikunj Handa Mar 11, 2025 ▶ 9:26 The new OpenAI Agents Platform: CUA, Web Search, Responses API, Agents SDK!!

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Disclosure
OpenAI releases its Operator computer use tool to API developers
“And then we're also launching our computer use tool. So this is the tool behind the operator product in ChatGPT. So that's coming to developers today.”
Nikunj Handa Mar 11, 2025 ▶ 1:08 The new OpenAI Agents Platform: CUA, Web Search, Responses API, Agents SDK!!
Disclosure
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…”
Nikunj Handa Mar 11, 2025 ▶ 1:17 The new OpenAI Agents Platform: CUA, Web Search, Responses API, Agents SDK!!
Disclosure
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…”
Nikunj Handa Mar 11, 2025 ▶ 1:45 The new OpenAI Agents Platform: CUA, Web Search, Responses API, Agents SDK!!
Disclosure
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.”
Nikunj Handa Mar 11, 2025 ▶ 5:23 The new OpenAI Agents Platform: CUA, Web Search, Responses API, Agents SDK!!
Assertion Supported
Nikunj Handa: OpenAI distilled o-series models into GPT-4o search
“They use, like, synthetic data techniques. They've done, like, O-series model distillation to, like, make these four or fine tunes really good.”
Nikunj Handa Mar 11, 2025 ▶ 9:26 The new OpenAI Agents Platform: CUA, Web Search, Responses API, Agents SDK!!
Insight
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…”
Nikunj Handa Mar 11, 2025 ▶ 16:15 The new OpenAI Agents Platform: CUA, Web Search, Responses API, Agents SDK!!
Insight
OpenAI's Handa: Current computer use models are at the GPT-1 or GPT-2 stage
“The cool thing about computer use is that we're just so, so early. It's like the GPT-II of computer use or maybe GPT-I of computer use right now.”
Nikunj Handa Mar 11, 2025 ▶ 18:35 The new OpenAI Agents Platform: CUA, Web Search, Responses API, Agents SDK!!
Disclosure
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…”
Nikunj Handa Mar 11, 2025 ▶ 20:50 The new OpenAI Agents Platform: CUA, Web Search, Responses API, Agents SDK!!
Assertion Supported
Handa: OpenAI Responses API stores conversation state for 30 days free
“Yeah, it's free. We store your state for 30 days. You can turn it off. But yeah, it's free.”
Nikunj Handa Mar 11, 2025 ▶ 6:44 The new OpenAI Agents Platform: CUA, Web Search, Responses API, Agents SDK!!
Disclosure
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.”
Nikunj Handa Mar 11, 2025 ▶ 22:23 The new OpenAI Agents Platform: CUA, Web Search, Responses API, Agents SDK!!
Disclosure
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 …”
Nikunj Handa Mar 11, 2025 ▶ 24:44 The new OpenAI Agents Platform: CUA, Web Search, Responses API, Agents SDK!!

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EpisodeDateSpeaking time
The new OpenAI Agents Platform: CUA, Web Search, Responses API, Agents SDK!! Mar 11, 2025 9m
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