I was encouraged this week to see the leaders of the frontier labs agree on the need for them to slow down the pace of AI development. Given the stakes, it’s a good and necessary first step.   But I’m even more encouraged by the growing recognition that how this powerful new technology develops should be at the center of our public debate.   I’ve been watching the progress on AI for over a decade now, and one thing that’s clear to me is that the potential impact of this technology is not overhyped. It’s also moving at lightning speed – and even faster than those who are engineering it can keep up with.   I’m not an AI accelerationist who believes it will lead to some techno-utopia, and I’m not a doomer who thinks it will inevitably lead to humanity’s destruction. But whether this technology results in amazing breakthroughs in medicine, energy and education or unleashes huge economic disruptions, greater inequality, and potential catastrophe will depend on the choices that we make right now – choices that should be made not just by the companies involved, but by all of us.

If you’re still figuring out how to use AI, or feel like @OpenAI is shipping faster than you can keep up, this might be a useful place to start. Our customer education team just launched 11 new courses on OpenAI Academy. There are now 14 free, self-paced courses covering: 1. Using AI in everyday work, from better prompts to workflows and agents 2. Building with Codex and the OpenAI API 3. Bringing AI into your team, teaching, or studies

personalized shopping with Astra is unbelievable I did something similar with GPT-5.6-Sol (not on ultrafast) and while Sol got the job done, Astra did a way better job on reproducing my like (face + body) and was ~4x faster (1 hr 33 min versus 4 hr 24 min)

PSA: Astra can see your remaining usage % in Codex and keep it in mind while running a /goal so you can give it a budget in plain English like: “keep going until i’m down to 25%, or until you've solved it”

GPT-6 Astra recreated the Palace of Fine arts in Blender. This is favorite building in San Francisco because it was built for the World's Fair in 1914 where the steam locomotive and telephone were showed off. It was a time when technology gave us all a deep sense of optimism for the future. I feel like some of that sense has been lost since, but I hope models like astra can help restore it, and push us towards a more hopeful future.

This is one of my favorite films I’ve made at OpenAI. I’ve loved the original Put That There film forever and it’s inspired a lot of the work I’ve done here. When I saw what Astra could do I knew what we had to do

Onboarding at OpenAI is one of the fastest I have ever experienced. Step 1) login to Slack Step 2) download and login to ChatGPT. That’s basically it. Anything in this company can be driven from here, and it comes readily configured. You can figure out how to do anything or find the right person for anything. All workflows and tools integrate well into Slack and so you don’t have to leave these two surfaces. This is the future of onboarding and enables engineers to ship on day one at scale. I didn’t think it was possible to keep this velocity at this scale, but it is.

This week’s ChatGPT feature drop - Aug 28: The team won't let me take a week off with these posts. Here's what we shipped 🚀 this week: 1/ Scheduled tasks for free users: Now anyone can create recurring tasks for ChatGPT. "Every Thursday, tell me about cool events happening this weekend nearby". 2/ Stickers: Use Imagegen to turn any photo into a sticker pack to share on iMessage or WhatsApp. If you like stickers in iMessage, this one's for you. 3/ Save temp chats: By popular request, you can now save a temporary chat to your sidebar after you've started it. You can also choose to use memory for temp chat. It's a nice quality of life improvement! 4/ Multiple accounts for Google plugins: Lots of people ask ChatGPT questions about their email and calendar (only available for paid users for now). You can now add more Google accounts so you can ask about all your accounts! 5/ Voice widgets in lock screen: Voice conversations now show things like weather and sports in the iOS Live Activity, even when your screen is locked. See you next week!

the fact that ChatGPT work gives you an always-on, powerful computer in the cloud is still underrated. you can now use it to sign into your accounts, which makes it a lot more useful getting stuff done give it the annoying stuff. go enjoy your life ♥️