OpenAI Başkanı Greg Brockman ile Astra ve Hizalanma Hakkında Bir Röportaj

This week’s Stratechery interview is with OpenAI President and co-founder Greg Brockman . Brockman dropped out of college in 2010 to join Stripe, and rose to become the company s CTO; he left in 2015 and co-founded OpenAI, where he also served as CTO. Today, after an interesting few years, Brockman is President of OpenAI, and is the face of yesterday s announcement of Astra , OpenAI s newest model.

In this interview, recorded before the Astra announcement, we discuss Brockman s background, his time at Stripe, and the early years of OpenAI. We touch on the ChatGPT launch and the drama of 2023, and whether or not having a billion users is actually a disadvantage. We also touch on OpenAI s place on the value chain, and their competition with companies closer to consumers, like Microsoft, and their suppliers, like Nvidia. We also talk about Astra and OpenAI s stated commitment to alignment, and debate whether or not OpenAI took security seriously in the run-up to the Hugging Face incident.

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So we obviously have a massive amount of news to get to, but given this is the first time we have talked, I don t want to pass up the usual Stratechery biography question I ask anyone.

I do want to ask — do you define North Dakota as being a part of the Midwest?

All right, well, a fellow Midwesterner, of course I have to spend some time there. You went to school in Boston, as they say, but before we get to there — you have an amazing resume even before you get to school, like the International Olympiad , but in chemistry. Where did the computers come in, or were computers a part of your life from the beginning?

GB: Well, computers were always in the background for me growing up. I loved to play computer games, but I was really into math, I was into science.