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Sonwalkar: GPT-5 costs half as much as o3
“Also it's half the cost of O three. So it's much cheaper. So it helps you, helps your margins.”
Apple requested custom AI models from OpenAI and Anthropic for Private Cloud
“In his discussions with both Anthropic and OpenAI, the iPhone maker requested a custom version that could run on Apple's private cloud computer.”
Chen: OpenAI reached 3 million paying business users
“We hit a big milestone. We got I think three million paying business users fairly recently.”
LiveKit's d'Sa: LiveKit built the infrastructure for OpenAI's ChatGPT voice modes
“Fast forward, like, about a year and a half, two years, and, ah, we built a demo when ChatGPT first came out, ah, where you could talk to it instead of text with it using LiveKit's infrastructure, and a few months later, OpenAI ended up finding it, ah, wanted …”
D'Sa: LiveKit partnered with OpenAI to build ChatGPT voice mode
“We built a demo when ChatGPT first came out, ah, where you could talk to it instead of text with it using LiveKit's infrastructure, and a few months later, OpenAI ended up finding it, ah, wanted to build a voice interface to ChatGPT, And we started to work pre…”
Coogan: OpenAI's o1 Pro beats R1 and Claude in Catan eval
“The top OpenAI thinking models, O-one Pro get it too, but all of DeepSeek R-one, Gemini, two point O-flash thinking and Claude do not.”
Coogan: OpenAI's $200 o1 Pro uses the same model as $20 o1
“In fact, the O-one model is 20 dollars a month, is basically the same model used in the O-one Pro model for 10 X the price at 200 dollars a month, which raised plenty of eyebrows. The main difference is that O-one Pro thinks for a lot longer before responding”
Coogan: Stargate's First Texas Data Center to Be Run by Oracle
“Stargate's first data center will be in Texas. The site which started construction last year will be operated by Oracle and used by OpenAI.”
Coogan: OpenAI Mac app leverages accessibility features to edit code across editors
“They use the accessibility features on the Mac app so that they don't need VS codes or text edits permission to go in there and rewrite the code. They just are able to read everything out, rewrite it, and just act as a AI assistant in there.”
Coogan: OpenAI o1 is built on the GPT-4 foundation model
“The foundation model, yeah, it's still running GPT-IV, but obviously there's a lot of there's a lot of training to have that happens on top and a lot of UI stuff.”
Hays: OpenAI Built Consumer Scale After Wrappers Reached Tens of Millions ARR
“Before chat GPT, there were products like copy.ai that were leveraging the API well, and like had gotten to decent, not scale, but tens of millions of ARR, and then OpenAI was like, oh, actually we're a consumer product company now, and then now they have hund…”
Coogan: GPT-6 Astra scores zero percent on Exploit Gym Honeypot
“Also, the Exploit Jim Honeypot Lower is the better. GPT-Six Astra, zero percent, so good performance there.”
Coogan: GPT-6 Astra scores 64.6% on Terminal Bench Science
“Terminal Bench Science. We're going over into the world of science. GPT-Six Astra scored 64.6% on reasoning effort. Max cost 26, 26 bucks.”
OpenAI Acquired Jony Ive and Tang Tan's AI Startup in 2025
“Tang Tan left Apple in 2024 to co-found the AI hardware startup I.O. With Johnny Ive, which OpenAI acquired in 2025 as part of its consumer AI device effort.”
Hays: OpenAI GPT-5.6 spans Sol, Terra, and Luna tiers
“To go back to your other question, so Sol is the frontier model, Terra is a balanced model for efficient everyday work, and then Luna is a fast and affordable model for high volume work.”
OpenAI introduces Codex Sites for building shareable interactive web apps
“In other open AI news there's now sites in codecs. You can turn work ideas, plans into interactive websites or apps. Your team can explore, use, and share.”
OpenAI Codex prompt allegedly bans mentioning goblins, raccoons, and pigeons.
“Never talk about goblins, gremlins, raccoons, trolls, ogres, pigeons, or other animals or creatures. Unless it is absolutely and unambiguously relevant to the user's query.”
OpenAI's GPT-5.5 matches GPT-5.4 per-token latency in real-world serving
“GPT 5.5 delivers this step up in intelligence without compromising on speed. Matches GPT 5.4 per token latency in real world serving.”
OpenAI hires Meta's Dave Dugan as VP of Global Ad Solutions
“Dave Dugan, a former top advertising executive at Meta, is gonna lead sale, ad sales. Dugan, who announced earlier this month he was stepping down from his role as Vice President of Global Clients and Agencies at Meta, has been named Vice President of Global A…”
McCormick: OpenAI signed a deal with Cerebras for fast inference
“OpenAI just did the Cerebrus deal, there's Claude Fast, and there's a whole bunch of different modes that will deliver faster inference”
Coogan: OpenAI launched GPT-5.3 Codex and Frontier AI co-worker platform
“So GPT-Five-Point-Three Codex launched today, and there's a very, very cool There's a very, very cool update to or new product, Frontier, which is a product for building AI co-workers that I'm very excited to talk to Sam about because it feels like the first g…”
Coogan: 20 OpenAI Employees Left to Join Thinking Machines at Inception
“20 people from OpenAI left during the Thinking Machines Foundation.”
Coogan: GPT-5.2 Thinking Benchmark Leaps to 52.9% from 17.6%
“GPT 5.2 thinking is at 52.9%, up from 17.6%. That's a huge leap.”
Hays: OpenAI's Sora Fell from #1 to #21 in App Store Charts
“Sora was, I think, number one in the charts at that point. It's now 21.”
Nadella: Azure was OpenAI's first cloud provider after Musk requested credits
“Azure was the first cloud provider. When OpenAI got started. In fact, I think Elon sent me The mail asking for Azure credits.”
Hays: OpenAI announces web browser named Atlas
“OpenAI dropped a trailer announcing the browser, which is called Atlas.”
Hays: 85% of ChatGPT's weekly active users are outside the US
“85% of their weekly actives are outside of the U.S.”
Alex Dhillon: OpenAI is a customer of Outtake AI
“We've been lucky to work with phenomenal places like you know, OpenAI is one of our favorite customers really pushed us when you think about the kinds of cybersecurity threats that they might be dealing with.”
Knoop: OpenAI asked ARC Prize team to verify results on semi-private dataset
“Opening eye situation was a little different because they had reached out to us and said, Hey, we think we've got a really impressive result on the public eval set. And we'd like your help to verify. On the semi-private set, which is what we created that data …”
Coogan: OpenAI Will Run Its Own Cluster Management Software for Stargate
“OpenAI will main control of operations and run almost all of its own cluster management software.”
Coogan: AI apps will dynamically route user prompts across models automatically
“Very quickly, they're going to be able to put a router in front of that and dynamically decide, oh, this is a question that needs to go to oh, one. This is a question that needs to go to four. Four O or whatever, and all of that will become extracted.”
Isaac: OpenAI-Musk Trial Courtroom Limits Outlets to One Reserved Seat
“So there are reserved seats in the front row for press, but the issue is only one person per outlet gets it, and we are doing, like, live blogging for, like, the big moments, like, opening statements, and for Elon, and so myself and my colleague Cade came on t…”