#define AI Engineer - Greg Brockman, OpenAI (ft. Jensen Huang)
Aug 10, 2025 · 41:05
Greg Brockman, co-founder and president of OpenAI, discusses his journey from Stripe's first CTO (growing from 40 to 250 people) to leading AI development, sharing insights on independent study (completing three years of high school math in one year), the engineering-research partnership at OpenAI (emphasizing technical humility), and scaling challenges like ChatGPT hitting 1 million users in five days and ImageGen reaching 100 million in five days. He explains how Codex transforms coding (low double-digit percent of internal PRs written by Codex, 24,000 PRs merged in public GitHub in one day) and introduces "vibe coding" as an empowerment mechanism. In response to Jensen Huang's questions, Brockman predicts a future with diverse AI infrastructure (homogeneous accelerators as default, purpose-built for specific workloads) and a menagerie of domain-specific agents leveraging distillation, driving 10x more economic activity. He identifies basic research as a renewed scaling bottleneck alongside compute, data, algorithms, power, and money.
