Stratechery interviews OpenAI President Greg Brockman on Astra, alignment and security lapses
timigod · x · 2026-09-05
Stratechery publishes an interview with OpenAI President and co-founder Greg Brockman around the Astra launch. Topics: his Stripe CTO years and OpenAI founding, the ChatGPT launch and 2023 drama, whether a billion users is a disadvantage, OpenAI's position in the AI value chain versus Microsoft (customers) and Nvidia (suppliers), Astra, OpenAI's alignment commitments, and a debate over whether OpenAI took security seriously before the Hugging Face incident. A companion Dithering episode covers Nvidia buying Hugging Face.
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