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Big Technology Podcast

OpenAI President Greg Brockman: AI Self-Improvement, The Superapp Bet, Path To AGI, Scaling Compute

Big Technology Podcast

Alex Kantrowitz

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4.7596 Ratings

🗓️ 1 April 2026

⏱️ 74 minutes

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Summary

Greg Brockman is the President and co-founder of OpenAI. Brockman joins Big Technology to discuss OpenAI’s product strategy, the rise of its coming super app, and why he believes AI is entering a new takeoff phase. Tune in to hear Brockman explain OpenAI's bet on the GPT reasoning model tree over video generation, what the "Spud" pre-training run means for upcoming models, and why he believes AGI is 70-80% achieved. We also cover the competitive landscape, the economics behind OpenAI's $110 billion infrastructure bet, and public skepticism toward AI. Hit play for one of the most revealing conversations yet about where AI is headed and what it means for everyone. --- Enjoying Big Technology Podcast? Please rate us five stars ⭐⭐⭐⭐⭐ in your podcast app of choice. Want a discount for Big Technology on Substack + Discord? Here’s 25% off for the first year: https://www.bigtechnology.com/subscribe?coupon=0843016b Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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0:00.0

I think it's extremely clear that we are going to have AI within the next couple of years

0:05.6

in a way that is still going to be jagged, but that the floor of task will just be almost for any

0:12.5

intellectual task of how you use your computer. The AI will be able to do that.

0:16.8

The scariest moment at OpenAI was actually after we launched CatchEBT. And I remember being at the holiday party and just feeling this vibe of week one. I have never felt that. I was like, no, that we are the underdog. And we always have been. From the moment we launched Chat ChbPT, I remember talking with my team having this exact conversation. I said, how much compute should we buy? I said, all of it. I said, no, no, no, really, how much compute should we buy?

0:40.3

I said, no matter how much we try to build, I know we're not going to be able to keep up with the demand.

0:47.3

OpenAI co-founder and president Greg Brockman joins us to talk about AI's most promising opportunities,

0:53.3

how Open AI plans to capitalize on them,

0:55.6

and what the Super App is all about.

0:57.6

And Greg is with us here in studio today. Greg, great to see you.

1:01.1

Thank you for having me.

1:02.6

Well, we're speaking on a time where Open AI is shutting down video generation

1:08.2

and focusing its energies on a super app, which is going to combine

1:12.7

business and coding use cases. And I think from the outside, those of us watching this are like,

1:19.6

including myself, opening eyes winning in consumer. And now it's shifting its resources.

1:25.3

What is happening? Well, the way I would think about this is that

1:28.9

we have been in a world where we're developing this technology, deep learning, to really see,

1:34.0

can it have the positive impact that we have always pictured? Can it build, can it be used to build

1:41.9

applications that help people that help them in their lives.

1:47.5

And we've separately had a arm that's saying, let's actually try to deploy this technology,

1:52.7

whether that's to help sustain the business, to start getting some practice with getting

1:57.3

real world impact, those kinds of things, for the time when this technology actually comes to fruition, that it actually becomes everything that we've imagined, that we

2:06.6

started this company to try to have. And I think that we're at a moment now where we've really

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