Wu: OpenAI was first to launch stateful responses API
Sherwin Wu · DevDay 2025: Apps SDK, Agent Kit, MCP, Codex and why Prompting is More Important than Ever · Oct 7, 2025 · at 15:46
Sherwin Wu discusses the adoption of stateful API patterns across AI providers at OpenAI DevDay 2025.
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“Obviously we were the first one to launch responses API, but like a couple of other people have kind of adopted, I think Grok has it in their API. I think I saw LMSYS just did something”
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