one of the most beautiful things about OpenAI is that every employee really has a voice.
i wanted to capture what it feels like to work here, what our mission means to me, and why you should join us. so i made this video with Codex, shared it with the team, and they felt it was worth producing and sharing with the world.
this is our mission. and it’s why i’m here.
“What we found at OpenAI is that when we focus on any one thing, we can knock it out of the park.” @gdb in conversation with @shiringhaffary@business https://t.co/a6KRXrVJJE
I’ve gotten to test GPT-5.6 early and she’s an absolute delight in every way, capable not just technically but practically (outputs valuable work instead of theoretical code chunks), codex is the best harness, life dim without her, I am breathless ai bro, can’t wait for Thurs
Samsung rolls out ChatGPT Enterprise and Codex to all staff in Korea and DX division staff globally; OpenAI says it's one of its largest enterprise deployments (Kim Su-jeong / CHOSUNBIZ)
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I’m excited to share that I’ll be joining OpenAI and look forward to working with the exceptional team there.
It was a difficult decision to move on. I’m incredibly proud of the amazing team at Google and everything we’ve built together. It has been an honor and a pleasure to work with all of you.
a few months ago in an interview, someone asked me where we wanted to take the codex app. i answered with something along the lines of: we intend to make it the best app ever built for desktop, full stop.
it probably felt like a little much, but i meant it. and it feels less potentially hyperbolic now than it did then.
Codex is the best way to build software. it is now the best way to do many other things too. we will lean into both, and much of it will mean we blend a lot with ChatGPT. we will do this only when we can deliver something incredible and better than what the two separate current things can deliver alone.
we will also combine the best parts of cloud and local environments (and yes, windows+linux). and the best of instant responses and long-running objectives, like /goal. we will do so with Taste™
outside of the incredible gpt models, 3 things have made the Codex app what it is:
- an opinionated view of how agents should work with a high quality bar
- a tight and honest dogfooding loop
- you
those 3 things will continue to be P0.
LFG.
I've had more "I can't believe it's this good" moments with GPT5.5 than any other model since Opus 4.5. It's shockingly, scarily capable. Days and days of amazing progress. All steering, no handwriting. Yet utterly delightful to conduct its coding. So, so good.
OpenAI is tapping Kiran Mani, CEO of Indian streaming platform JioStar, for a newly created role leading its Asia-Pacific operations https://t.co/9yjd3AH7nx