OpenAI President Greg Brockman on GPT-5.5 “Spud,” AI Model Moats, and Cybersecurity Risks

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🗓️ 23 April 2026

⏱️ 29 minutes

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Greg Brockman is the president and co-founder of OpenAI. Brockman joins Big Technology to discuss GPT-5.5, also known as Spud, and what it means for OpenAI’s next phase of AI development. Tune in to hear Brockman explain how the model gets better at coding, computer use, slides, spreadsheets, and agentic work across everyday applications. We also cover OpenAI’s competitiveness, model economics, distillation, cybersecurity risk, trust in agents, and the compute-powered economy. Hit play for a timely look at OpenAI’s newest model and where the AI race goes next. ---- 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 Chapters: 00:00 Intro: GPT-5.5 “Spud” 00:57 What GPT-5.5 Can Do 02:56 OpenAI’s Agent Roadmap 05:49 Training and Real-World Tasks 09:55 Model Moats and Distillation 15:55 Cybersecurity Risks 21:01 Trusting Agents 23:36 The Compute Economy Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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0:00.0	Open AI president and co-founder Greg Brockman joins us to discuss OpenAI's newest model,
0:05.2	Spud, aka GPT 5.5, and where it leaves OpenAI competitively. That's coming up right after this.
0:12.6	This episode is brought to you by ServiceNow. If you want to see where Enterprise AI is actually
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0:21.6	May 5th through 7th in Las Vegas, where thousands of business and tech leaders come together.
0:27.5	Expect headline keynotes from ServiceNow chairman and CEO Bill McDermott,
0:31.7	real stories from companies running AI at scale, and major partnership announcements
0:36.1	turning AI ambition into actual business results.
0:39.7	I'll be there in person sitting down with some of the most influential voices in the space
0:44.4	and we'll be bringing those conversations back to you here on Big Technology.
0:50.4	Welcome to Big Technology podcast. Today we have an emergency episode with OpenAI president and co-founder Greg Brockman,
0:57.4	all about GPT5.5.5, the famous spud model looking at what it does and what it means for OpenAI.
1:03.8	Greg, great to see you.
1:04.7	Welcome back to the show.
1:05.9	Thank you for having me.
1:06.9	Hope it's not too much of an emergency.
1:09.3	Well, I am definitely recording in uh in a
1:12.5	Vegas hotel room so uh more emergency than our last conversation but we had some time to prepare
1:18.5	so uh it's great to be on with you so let's let's just start with uh with this uh can you confirm
1:24.9	gpt 5.5 is SPUD?
1:28.3	Yes.
1:29.4	Okay.
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