@shaneparrish: My conversation with @OpenAI co-founder @gdb This is the most detailed first-person account of the 72 hours after Sam A…
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OpenAI co-founder Greg Brockman gives the first detailed first-person account of the 72 hours following Sam Altman's firing and discusses the global AGI race, ChatGPT reasoning transparency, and internal codebase exposure.
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My conversation with @OpenAI co-founder @gdb This is the most detailed first-person account of the 72 hours after Sam Altman was fired. We also go deep on what comes next: the global race to AGI, why ChatGPT stopped showing reasoning, how much of OpenAI’s own code is now
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