OpenAI's Dean Ball names GPT-4, Opus 3/4.5, o3 and Astra among his favorite tech releases ever
deanwball · x · 2026-11-05
Dean Ball, who works at OpenAI, shared a list of his all-time favorite technology releases: PS2, iPod gen 2, 12-inch PowerBook, 8800 GTX, OG iPhone, Firefox, Gmail, Google Docs, iPhone 4/X, MacBook Air M1, plus AI models GPT-4, Opus 3/4.5, o3 and Astra. In a follow-up he says Astra is one of his favorite tech releases ever, and that he'd praise it even more loudly if he didn't work at OpenAI.
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