OpenAI's Will DePue: 'We've been analysis bottlenecked for the last while'

willdepue · x · 2026-10-13

Responding to a "soon?" nudge, OpenAI's Will DePue said the team has been "analysis bottlenecked for the last while" — a brief but notable insider signal that progress is limited by analysis work rather than raw compute.

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