Altman Recalls Thiel's Advice to Stick With ChatGPT, Sparking Debate
Sam Altman recalled that Peter Thiel's best advice was to double down on ChatGPT when many internally doubted its sustainability, but critic tszzl countered that the chatbot paradigm peaked quickly and OpenAI's real engine was LLM scaling, arguing Codex should have shipped a year earlier.
2026-08-23 ~ 2026-08-24 · 3 related posts
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- tszzl: doubling down on ChatGPT wasn't the real win — OpenAI should've shipped Codex in '24 — tszzl · 2026-08-24
- Sam Altman: ChatGPT was deemed unsustainable internally — damianplayer · 2026-08-24