OpenAI Co-Founder: AI Goes Parabolic! Here's What's Next | Greg Brockman

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Apr 22, 2026

Greg Brockman, OpenAI co-founder and former first engineer at Stripe, takes you inside the chaotic 72 hours after Sam Altman was fired and the scramble to build a backup company. He also digs into OpenAI’s shift from nonprofit roots, why AI now writes so much code, the battle over hidden reasoning, and how compute scarcity could shape who gets access to AGI.

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ANECDOTE

Ilya's Exit Was Greg Brockman's Hardest Moment

Greg Brockman says rebuilding trust with Ilya Sutskever took hard conversations, but Ilya’s eventual departure was the only moment he felt he did not want to continue at OpenAI.
During time off, Greg Brockman trained language models on DNA sequences at Arc Institute, reconnecting AI work to health problems that matter personally to him and his wife.

ADVICE

Make The Hard Decision Earlier

Keep going on missions that matter, but make the hard decision and have the hard conversation as soon as you know.
Greg Brockman says his repeated mistake was waiting too long on mismatched people, wrong technical directions, or failing project setups even after he already knew.

INSIGHT

AI Now Writes Nearly All Of OpenAI's Code

AI is already accelerating AI development because software engineering is the bottleneck and models now write almost all the code.
Greg Brockman says OpenAI is nearing a phase where models also generate research ideas and run experiments, while human experts still matter most for architecture and interfaces.

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