OpenAI is over-levered as all hell.
OpenAI is over-levered as all hell. A confidence game, but boy are they confident! They're executing strongly on top of a strong hand, but it's nowhere near...
Topic: OpenAI
98 mentions · 85 chunks · 55 episodes
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- OpenAI appears in 85 chunks across 55 episodes, from 2023-11-13 to 2026-04-20.
- Its densest episode is Bits and Bobs 6/9/25 (2025-06-09), with 4 observations on this topic.
- Semantically it travels with ChatGPT, Anthropic, and Google, while by chunk count it sits between Meta and prompt injection attack; its yearly rank moved from #26 in 2023 to #15 in 2026.
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Google was a one trick pony… but it was one hell of a trick.
...ot owned by one powerful company and it consumes all software. This is a future OpenAI is betting on. Let's hope they don't achieve it![hz]
If the model is the product then OpenAI already won and we should all just bow down to them now and save some time.
If the model is the product then OpenAI already won and we should all just bow down to them now and save some time. If that's true, unless someone else can somehow get an order of magnitude...
ChatGPT Atlas's coverage has been dominated by stories about prompt injection and privacy.
...mail tab and it leaks your Gmail" Michael Nielsen: "In today's version of this: OpenAI is going to have a web browser. But, unlike Chrome or Firefox or Safari, they're going to have a person (i.e., an AI) personally watch everything you...
The human in the loop is what injects the novelty.
...down. Which is how society does it, but not typically this fast. It's also what OpenAI is doing in its product development process.
Google culture in its golden era was downstream of the dotcom bust.
...le is because they were profitable and there was no one else growing like them. OpenAI is trying to do the same kind of playbook, but without the necessary preconditions. They're nowhere near profitable. They're already replicating any ...
Fortune: An ex-OpenAI researcher's study of a million-word ChatGPT conversation shows how quickly 'AI psychosis' can take hold—and how chatbots can sidestep safety guardrails
Fortune: An ex-OpenAI researcher's study of a million-word ChatGPT conversation shows how quickly 'AI psychosis' can take hold—and how chatbots can sidestep safety guardra...
OpenAI is looking at a Log in with ChatGPT offering.
OpenAI is looking at a Log in with ChatGPT offering. A crucial feature: businesses that use it can subsidize inference for users. This is a classic aggregat...
The way to decentralize AI is to decentralize the applications.
...quality ones that are easy for an application layer to swap between. That's why OpenAI is desperately vertically integratin[ja]g and storing state, to avoid being a swappable component lower in the stack.
Karan Sharma, PM at OpenAI, is dreaming about AI Home Cooked Software.
Karan Sharma, PM at OpenAI, is dreaming about AI Home Cooked Software. Home-cooked software has to happen in a personal kitchen, not some factory kitchen owned by a corporation...
I disagree with Stratechery's take that OpenAI has a Windows Play.
I disagree with Stratechery's take that OpenAI has a Windows Play. An open system can be on top of a proprietary system if the proprietary system can't cut someone else off on top. Open access to ...
An interesting economics paper about why OpenAI is moving so strongly into vertical integration.
An interesting economics paper about why OpenAI is moving so strongly into vertical integration. When there's a monopolist whose product is used as an input to a downstream product, they'll vertica...
Is optimizing for sycophancy intentional at OpenAI?
Is optimizing for sycophancy intentional at OpenAI?[h] Retention you must optimize for, otherwise your product won't continue to exist. Retention means "a thing people like using."[i] That means that ...
Does asking an LLM sensitive medical questions invade your privacy by giving data to OpenAI?
...asking an LLM sensitive medical questions invade your privacy by giving data to OpenAI? Using ChatGPT vs using a service that uses the same model via the API are orders of magnitude different risk. In the former, OpenAI explicitly reser...
OpenAI is climbing the chatbot hill
OpenAI is climbing the chatbot hill They're in hill-climbing mode on that hill. It's a hill they'll top out on. That makes sense, it's the steepest consumer...
This week's wild west roundup, this time using LLMs incidentally in attack chains:
... PromptLock ransomware: "The PromptLock malware uses the gpt-oss-20b model from OpenAI locally via the Ollama API to generate malicious Lua scripts on the fly, which it then executes. PromptLock leverages Lua scripts generated from hard...
OpenAI Says It's Scanning Users' Conversations and Reporting Content to the Police
OpenAI Says It's Scanning Users' Conversations and Reporting Content to the Police You could argue the LLM provider shouldn't even have the queries to hand ...
I continue to think the best business parallel for LLM model providers is cell phone networks.
...to be disabled by default so the user had to pay to use that carrier's map app. OpenAI is moving to control the last-mile UX. They'll likely move to "throttling" maneuvers, for example only giving access to the premium model in their 1P...
OpenAI's business value now comes mostly from the consumer subscriptions, not the underlying LLM model.
OpenAI's business value now comes mostly from the consumer subscriptions, not the underlying LLM model. They started off by having the first break-out model...
OpenAI's power in the market arises less from the model's quality, and more from owning the default consumer app.
OpenAI's power in the market arises less from the model's quality, and more from owning the default consumer app. They're the "kleenex" of AI–the one brand ...