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OpenAI President Greg Brockman: Our Plan To Merge Chat And Agents

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Greg Brockman is the president and co-founder of OpenAI. Brockman joins Big Technology Podcast live from the Big Technology AI Summit to discuss OpenAI's trajectory, the state of the frontier, and why he believes compute will ultimately decide the AI race....

Highlights

In this episode, Greg Brockman, president and co-founder of OpenAI, shares his vision for the future of artificial intelligence, from the evolution of AI interfaces to the critical role of compute. He discusses the company's journey from its founding mission to its current trajectory, offering insights into how AI will become a persistent, proactive agent in our daily lives.
03:03
Building an AGI that acts as a persistent agent
05:43
Agents will become universal and act on your behalf
10:18
Trust is the key currency in the agentic era
20:58
Devices won't be the AI itself but interfaces to persistent agents
26:22
AI progress follows a deterministic path driven by increasing compute
29:05
Intelligence is multidimensional and domain expertise requires practice.
39:30
Compute is not a commodity despite appearances
44:58
AI will make personalized medicine standard.

Chapters

From Founding Mission to Persistent Agent: OpenAI's Vision for AGI
00:00
Beyond Chat: How AI Interfaces Will Evolve into Proactive Assistants
05:43
Earning Trust in the Agentic Era: Control, Oversight, and Automation
10:18
Human-Centric Interfaces: Moving Past Files and Folders
15:32
No Wall in Sight: Why Scaling Laws Continue to Drive AI Progress
23:35
The Compute Scarcity: Why Demand Will Always Outpace Supply
29:05
From FOMO to ROI: Enterprise Focus and the Commoditization of Intelligence
36:58
AI's Healthcare Revolution: From Diagnostics to Personalized Medicine
44:58

Transcript

Alex Kantrowitz: In 2015, Greg Brockman, Elon Musk, and Sam Altman started a non-profit called OpenAI, and the plan was to pursue artificial general intelligence. The company, or the non-profit, when it was a non-profit back then, began in Greg Brockman's ...