Greg Brockman Discusses OpenAI's Near-Collapse and the AI Race in Rare Podcast Interview
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Summary
A podcast episode featuring Greg Brockman, co-founder and President of OpenAI, discussing the inside story of the company behind ChatGPT and GPT-5. Brockman shares rare insights into the critical moments that built OpenAI and the 72-hour crisis that nearly destroyed the company. The conversation covers the AI race, the future of AGI (Artificial General Intelligence), and Brockman's journey from being Stripe's first engineer to co-founding one of the most important AI companies in the world.
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He was the first engineer at Stripe before leaving in 2015 to help start OpenAI.
Greg goes inside the moments that built, and nearly broke, the most important AI company in the world.
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