OpenAI Podcast

What racing reveals about working with AI - Episode 22

Racing 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

Why Tejal Patwardhan stopped underestimating the models - Episode 21

The 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

How a reasoning model cracked an 80-year-old math problem - Episode 20

Last 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 gen

Inside image generation’s Renaissance moment - Episode 19

People 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 tren

Why AI needs a new kind of supercomputer network - Episode 18

Training 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 di

What happens now that AI is good at math? - Episode 17

Math 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 cha

Building AI for Life Sciences - Episode 16

What 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 l

Inside the Model Spec - Episode 15

The 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 Mode

Building AI for better healthcare - Episode 14

Healthcare 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, w

The Thinking Behind Ads in ChatGPT - Episode 13

How 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 ad

State of the AI Industry - Episode 12

OpenAI 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 t

Shaping Model Behavior in GPT-5.1 - Episode 11

What 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 th

How AI Is Accelerating Scientific Discovery Today and What's Ahead - Episode 10

AI 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 accelerat

ChatGPT Atlas and the next era of web browsing - Episode 9

How 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 m

OpenAI x Broadcom and the future of compute - Episode 8

Sam 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. Fro

Live from DevDay - Episode 7

The 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 thei

The future of coding with AI - Episode 6

What 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—fr

Defining AGI and the road ahead - Episode 5

How 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 resea

How AI is transforming education - Episode 4

AI 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 wh

Jobs, growth, and the AI economy - Episode 3

The 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 impac