Jason Kwon
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- OpenAI is nothing without its people
- What we choose to do with life is just as much about who we choose to do it with. I couldn’t have asked for a better partner and friend.
I shared the following note with the OpenAI team today. - One of the greatest opportunities in AI safety and security is the chance to help support the creation of new industry verticals that help maximize the benefits and minimize the risks. The technology is moving fast. One of the best ways to keep up is with more technology, moreValthos builds next-generation biodefense. Of all AI applications, biotechnology has the highest upside and most catastrophic downside. Heroes at the frontlines of biodefense are working every day to protect the world against the worst case. But the pace of biotech is against
00:00 - There’s quite a lot more to the story than this. As everyone knows, we are actively defending against Elon in a lawsuit where he is trying to damage OpenAI for his own financial benefit. Encode, the organization for which @_NathanCalvin serves as the General Counsel, was oneOne Tuesday night, as my wife and I sat down for dinner, a sheriff’s deputy knocked on the door to serve me a subpoena from OpenAI. I held back on talking about it because I didn't want to distract from SB 53, but Newsom just signed the bill so... here's what happened: 🧵
Readers added context they thought people might want to knowReaders added contextThe subpoena request also asked for all communications involving SB 53. This is a bill unrelated to the lawsuit with Musk. x.com/_NathanCalvin/… - We’re fighting this overreach on user privacy. As @sama has mentioned before, we need a new form of privilege - AI privilege - given some of the kinds of conversations people are having with these tools today. Fittingly, Nils Gilman published an op-ed in the NYT discussing AIA letter from our CISO: "Fighting the New York Times’ invasion of user privacy" openai.com/index/fighting…
- A special day in Seoul as we officially launch OpenAI Korea. With strong government support and huge growth in ChatGPT use (up 4x in the past year), Korea is entering a new chapter in its AI journey and we want to be a true partner in Korea’s AI transformation.
- We have reached an agreement in principle for Sam Altman to return to OpenAI as CEO with a new initial board of Bret Taylor (Chair), Larry Summers, and Adam D'Angelo. We are collaborating to figure out the details. Thank you so much for your patience through this.
- starting a new chapterWe completed our recapitalization. The non-profit, the OpenAI Foundation, is now one of the best resourced philanthropies ever, with equity valued at ~$130B. It continues to control the OpenAI for-profit, which is now a public benefit corporation. openai.com/index/built-to…
- As someone whose family’s story is deeply tied to Korea, it was especially meaningful to announce today that we’ll soon open an OpenAI office in Seoul. ChatGPT's growth here has been off the charts—weekly users grew over 4.5x last year, and Korea is now our top country for paid
- our open weight models are state of the art reasoning models for their size, and will give more countries, communities and developers the ability to research and build with these models on their own terms. these models will play an important role in sovereign AI solutions thatgpt-oss is out! we made an open model that performs at the level of o4-mini and runs on a high-end laptop (WTF!!) (and a smaller one that runs on a phone). super proud of the team; big triumph of technology.
- patience…but will be worth the waitDeep Research Live from Tokyo 4pm PT / 9am JST Stay tuned for link to livestream.
- It was amazing to see @TheRealRPuri also team up with the leaders who enabled GPT-4 to see safely @lilianweng @SandhiniAgarwal @YingVallone and championed a great user experience @nickaturleyThe hero behind enabling GPT-4 to see is @TheRealRPuri who worked tirelessly across the whole stack, from research to product, for the past year to make this a reality for our ChatGPT users.
