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OpenAI's President Says: The Best Product Is No Product
Brockman discusses persistent agents and simpler interfaces; the host raises user-scale, financing, IPO, and device reports as context rather than Brockman's confirmed figures.
⚑Framing note: Big Technology hosted this summit; it was not an OpenAI event. User figures, financing, and IPO valuation were raised by the host as background or prediction. A third-party podcast transcript helped review this piece, but may contain transcription errors; the original video controls any precise quote.
▶ Original clip · Big Technology AI Summit, Brockman's closing segment (cued to 3:00:25 where he takes the stage, ~47 minutes)
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11 years in: how big is OpenAI now
OpenAI president and co-founder Greg Brockman recently sat for a closing interview with Alex Kantrowitz at the Big Technology AI Summit (Commonwealth Club) in San Francisco — their fourth conversation together, covering the Agent era, the shape of interfaces, the compute race, and the product roadmap.
Primary source and reference
- Big Technology AI Summit Original publisher