Greg Brockman interview [video]

OpenAI co-founder and President Greg Brockman revealed in a new interview that the company's original Napa offsite produced the three-step technical plan it has followed for a decade, and detailed the 72 hours after Sam Altman's firing, including the moment he quit and the design of a "Phoenix" backup company. Brockman also stated that a significant portion of OpenAI's own code is now written by AI, and addressed whether the world is in a global AI race and what a compute-constrained future means for access to AGI.

The AI race, the future of AGI, and the inside story of OpenAI. Greg Brockman is the co-founder and President of OpenAI, the company behind ChatGPT and GPT-5. He was the first engineer at Stripe before leaving in 2015 to help start OpenAI. In this rare conversation, Greg goes inside the moments that built, and nearly broke, the most important AI company in the world. Featured clips Breakthrough Moments at OpenAI Sam Altman's Firing Is AI Going Parabolic? Why ChatGPT No Longer Shows Reasoning AI and Job Loss Available Now: YouTube | Spotify | Apple Podcasts https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/greg-brockman-inside-the-72-hours-that-almost-killed-openai/id990149481?i=1000763023401 | Transcript https://fs.blog/knowledge-project-podcast-transcripts/greg-brockman/ Greg explains how the original Napa offsite produced the three-step technical plan OpenAI has followed for a decade and the real reason OpenAI had to abandon its pure nonprofit structure. He then walks through the 72 hours after Sam Altman was fired: where he was when he got the board call, why he quit the same day, how the “Phoenix” backup company was designed at Sam’s house the next morning, and the moment Ilya Sutskever’s tweet changed everything. From there, the conversation turns forward: whether we’re in a global AI race, how much of OpenAI’s own code is now written by AI “it’s hard to know what percent is not “ , why OpenAI stopped showing reasoning traces, what a compute-constrained world means for who gets access to AGI, and Greg’s answer to the question everyone is really asking: What happens to your job? + Check out the Granola Notes. https://notes.granola.ai/t/2c35c84f-6eb4-497a-8419-294d92141721-009c2hma