OpenAI Podcast
by OpenAI
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What racing reveals about working with AI - Episode 22
What racing reveals about working with AI - Episode 22
About this podcast
Hosted by Andrew Mayne, The OpenAI Podcast features conversations with the people working at and building with OpenAI. Topics range from what goes into developing frontier AI models and new features, to what users are doing with the technology. It’s a practical look at how AI is made and where it’s going, told by the people closest to the work. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.
Episodes
The newest 20 of 23 episodes
- What racing reveals about working with AI - Episode 22 · 41 min · Episode 22Racing is a sport of tiny margins and mountains of data. OpenAI researcher Joyce Ruffell and RaceTek Systems co-founder Chase Holden are each using AI to help teams make better…
- Why Tejal Patwardhan stopped underestimating the models - Episode 21 · 44 min · Episode 21The old tests are getting too easy. Tejal Patwardhan leads OpenAI’s frontier evals team, which is finding new ways to measure and forecast progress as models become more capable…
- How a reasoning model cracked an 80-year-old math problem - Episode 20 · 41 min · Episode 20Last month AI found something mathematicians had missed for decades. Reasoning researchers Alexander Wei, Hongxun Wu, and Lijie Chen join the podcast to discuss how a…
- Inside image generation’s Renaissance moment - Episode 19 · 29 min · Episode 19People are generating over 1.5 billion images a week in ChatGPT. In this episode, Product lead Adele Li and researcher Kenji Hata share some of the new use cases and trends since…
- Why AI needs a new kind of supercomputer network - Episode 18 · 38 min · Episode 18Training frontier models isn’t as simple as adding more GPUs—one small problem and the whole coordinated dance falls apart. OpenAI’s Mark Handley and Greg Steinbrecher discuss…
- What happens now that AI is good at math? - Episode 17 · 43 min · Episode 17Math is one of the clearest ways to see how far AI has come in a short span. OpenAI researchers Sébastien Bubeck and Ernest Ryu join host Andrew Mayne to explain what changed and…
- Building AI for Life Sciences - Episode 16 · 44 min · Episode 16What does it take to build AI systems that can actually help scientists? Research lead Joy Jiao and product lead Yunyun Wang discuss how OpenAI is developing models for life…
- Inside the Model Spec - Episode 15 · 37 min · Episode 15The more AI can do, the more we need to ask what it should and shouldn’t do. In this episode, OpenAI researcher Jason Wolfe joins host Andrew Mayne to talk about the Model Spec…
- Building AI for better healthcare - Episode 14 · 31 min · Episode 14Healthcare systems around the world are under strain, and both patients and clinicians are feeling the impact. OpenAI's Head of Health Dr. Nate Gross and Karan Singhal, who leads…
- The Thinking Behind Ads in ChatGPT - Episode 13 · 26 min · Episode 13How should advertising work in an AI product? Asad Awan, one of the ad leads at OpenAI, walks through how the company is approaching this decision and why it’s testing ads in…
- State of the AI Industry - Episode 12 · 50 min · Episode 12OpenAI CFO Sarah Friar and Khosla Ventures founder Vinod Khosla argue the greatest challenges in AI right now are keeping up with demand and making sure more people get the…
- Shaping Model Behavior in GPT-5.1 - Episode 11 · 29 min · Episode 11What does it mean for an AI model to have "personality"? Researcher Christina Kim and product manager Laurentia Romaniuk talk about how OpenAI set out to build a model that…
- How AI Is Accelerating Scientific Discovery Today and What's Ahead - Episode 10 · 48 min · Episode 10AI is beginning to change how science gets done. Head of OpenAI for Science Kevin Weil and OpenAI research scientist Alex Lupsasca talk about the early signs of acceleration…
- ChatGPT Atlas and the next era of web browsing - Episode 9 · 1 h 14 min · Episode 9How will the internet feel when your browser can actually help do things for you? OpenAI’s Ben Goodger and Darin Fisher, whose past work shaped some of the most popular modern…
- OpenAI x Broadcom and the future of compute - Episode 8 · 29 min · Episode 8Sam Altman and Greg Brockman from OpenAI sit down with Broadcom’s Hock Tan and Charlie Kawwas to discuss their new partnership—and what it means for the future of AI. From custom…
- Live from DevDay - Episode 7 · 1 h 0 min · Episode 7The OpenAI Podcast is live for the first time. Host Andrew Mayne sits down with startups Cursor, Abridge, SchoolAI, and Jam.dev—each reimagining how AI can transform their…
- The future of coding with AI - Episode 6 · 51 min · Episode 6What happens when AI becomes a true coding collaborator? OpenAI co-founder Greg Brockman and Codex engineering lead Thibault Sottiaux talk about the evolution of Codex—from the…
- Defining AGI and the road ahead - Episode 5 · 40 min · Episode 5How close are we to automating scientific discovery? What do AI competition wins really tell us about progress toward AGI? OpenAI Chief Scientist Jakub Pachocki and researcher…
- How AI is transforming education - Episode 4 · 60 min · Episode 4AI is redefining how we learn — from personalized tutoring to entirely new teaching models. OpenAI’s Head of Education, Leah Belsky, joins host Andrew Mayne to discuss what this…
- Jobs, growth, and the AI economy - Episode 3 · 1 h 5 min · Episode 3The future of work is arriving faster than expected. In this episode, OpenAI COO Brad Lightcap and Chief Economist Ronnie Chatterji join Andrew Mayne to discuss the impacts of AI…
