This is a somewhat awkward announcement that I accepted a job at OpenAI a couple weeks ago and started my move across the country this weekend! Great timing 🙌

I need a 6000 word New Yorker article on Ben’s mental state over the last 72 hours.

🙌🙌🙌

latest from preparedness @ openai: gpt4 at most mildly helps with biothreat creation. method: get bio PhDs in a secure monitored facility. half try biothreat creation w/ (experimental) unsafe gpt4. other half can only use the internet. so far, gpt4 ≈ internet… but we’ll

this is a good use of GPUs 😅

I don't know who needs to hear this but: You can replace that old monitor you keep around to plug into linux servers w/ a $30 HDMI -> USB Capture dongle and Quicktime.

i am so excited about javi's excitement

Fun fact: Barret Zoph moonlights as a table

So excited for this -- begone wrapping all your LLM calls in a while loop until the model decides to follow your schema. If you're building on the API, it's hard to a imagine a use case where this wouldn't benefit immensely.

The early chain of thought papers are what lead me to conclude that AI was going to work this time and MAN IS IT WORKING. This is an incredible achievement by even more incredible people 🙌

everyone wants to join a rocket ship until they remember they’re bumpy and on fire. buckle up y’all, only way to space.

Second ship of the day 📈 We're building ChatGPT into a contextual assistant. If you're wondering why @openai is building macOS and PC apps—this the beginning of why.

It's deeply concerning that one of the best AI researchers I've worked with, Kai, was denied a U.S. green card today. A Canadian who's lived and contributed here for 12 years now has to leave. We’re risking America’s AI leadership when we turn away talent like this.

I've been driving the research for our collab with Jony Ive from w/in OpenAI for the last year, alongside the best team imaginable. Want to join us? Search for "future of computing" here openai.com/careers/search/! PS: cover letters help me filter a ton :) nytimes.com/2025/05/21/tec…