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Azeem Azhar's Exponential View

OpenAI’s CPO on what’s coming next: Hardware, GPT-5, Jony Ive, agents, more

Azeem Azhar's Exponential View

EPIIPLUS 1 Ltd / Azeem Azhar

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🗓️ 10 June 2025

⏱️ 54 minutes

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Summary

This week, I'm speaking with Kevin Weil, Chief Product Officer at OpenAI, who is steering product development at what might be the world's most important company right now.

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0:00.0

We're in this transition from chat GPT being a thing that answers questions to a product that actually goes and does tasks for you in the real world.

0:07.5

You should be in control of any actions that it takes.

0:10.0

The best way to do that is to kind of co-evolve together.

0:13.7

Sam has sort of talked a little bit about generational differences.

0:16.3

So what is it like if you're in your early 20s, you're using chat GPT?

0:19.8

If you're younger, it's just a

0:21.1

core part of the way you operate your life. There's sort of an always-on nature. You realize that

0:26.5

you have this super assistant in your pocket that can not just answer any question, but it can

0:31.5

teach you anything that you want to learn. How far out are model capabilities being delivered? Are there things that are being worked on

0:39.4

today that might not make their way into models until mid-2026? It's unpredictable. Sometimes things

0:45.9

take longer than expected. Other times you see these capabilities that you didn't expect at all that

0:50.5

are kind of emergent and all of a sudden something just works. It's a completely

0:54.5

different way of building products. Computers can like do things that they couldn't do two months

0:58.7

ago and we're constantly in that state. Today I'm so excited to welcome Kevin while he is the

1:10.4

chief product officer of Open AI coming

1:14.2

off the back of a storied career in companies like Twitter and Facebook. So much to talk about.

1:20.6

So first of all, Kevin, thank you for making the time. You've been busy today already. It's

1:24.9

morning in San Francisco and you've already launched some things.

1:28.7

Yes, we have. And thank you so much for having me. It's my first live substack, so I'm excited.

1:33.9

Well, hopefully many more to come. You are really keeping us on your toes. And so just an hour

1:39.1

before we went live, there was another spate of product launches from Open AI. What do they tell us about your vision for ChatGPT and where the product is going?

1:47.9

The biggest thing that we launched this morning, we launched like six different things this morning.

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