Stratechery Interview: OpenAI President Greg Brockman on Astra, Alignment and the AI Value Chain
Stratechery · rss · 2026-09-04
Stratechery publishes a long-form interview with OpenAI President and co-founder Greg Brockman, recorded before the Astra model announcement.
- Brockman traces his path from Stripe CTO to co-founding OpenAI in 2015, including how math-competition peers from his youth now work at OpenAI.
- They discuss the ChatGPT launch, the 2023 turmoil, and whether having a billion users is actually a disadvantage.
- Analysis of OpenAI's position on the AI value chain: competition and cooperation with consumer-facing Microsoft and supplier Nvidia.
- Conversation covers Astra, OpenAI's stated commitment to alignment, and a debate over whether OpenAI took security seriously before the Hugging Face incident.
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