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OpenAI Podcast

OpenAI 20 episodes Latest May 14, 2026

Hosted by Andrew Mayne, The OpenAI Podcast features conversations with the people building with and working at OpenAI. Topics range from how new features are developed to what users are doing with the technology. It’s a practical look at how AI is made and where it’s going, told by the people closest to the work.

Episodes

How a reasoning model cracked an 80-year-old math problem - Episode 20 Jun 4, 2026 41:17 Last month AI found something mathematicians had missed for decades. Reasoning researchers Alexander Wei, Hongxun Wu, and Lijie Chen join the podcast to discuss how a general-purpose model helped disprove an 80-year-old conjecture from famed mathematician Paul Erdős. They walk through the moment the result started looking real, what it took to verify the proof, and what’s happened since sharing th
Inside image generation’s Renaissance moment - Episode 19 May 14, 2026 29:22 People are generating over 1.5 billion images a week in ChatGPT. In this episode, Product lead Adele Li and researcher Kenji Hata share some of the new use cases and trends since the launch of Images 2.0. Together with host Andrew Mayne, they trace the progress from the early DALL-E days and dive into the latest capabilities, including better text rendering, photorealism, multilingual support, wor
Why AI needs a new kind of supercomputer network - Episode 18 May 6, 2026 37:38 Training frontier models isn’t as simple as adding more GPUs—one small problem and the whole coordinated dance falls apart. OpenAI’s Mark Handley and Greg Steinbrecher discuss how a new supercomputer network design, used to train some of the company’s latest models, keeps the whole system moving in lockstep, even with record numbers of GPUs. They break down Multipath Reliable Connection, a new pro
What happens now that AI is good at math? - Episode 17 Apr 28, 2026 43:28 Math is one of the clearest ways to see how far AI has come in a short span. OpenAI researchers Sébastien Bubeck and Ernest Ryu join host Andrew Mayne to explain what changed and what it could mean for the future of research. They reflect on how Ernest used ChatGPT to help solve a 42-year-old open problem, the difference between deep literature search and original mathematical discovery, and what
Building AI for Life Sciences - Episode 16 Apr 16, 2026 44:25 What does it take to build AI systems that can actually help scientists? Research lead Joy Jiao and product lead Yunyun Wang discuss how OpenAI is developing models for life sciences and what responsible deployment means in a field with real biosecurity stakes. They explore how AI is already improving research workflows and where it could lead in drug discovery and more autonomous labs — including
Inside the Model Spec - Episode 15 Mar 25, 2026 37:26 The more AI can do, the more we need to ask what it should and shouldn’t do. In this episode, OpenAI researcher Jason Wolfe joins host Andrew Mayne to talk about the Model Spec, the public framework that defines intended model behavior. They discuss how the Model Spec works in practice, including how the chain of command handles  conflicts between instructions, and how OpenAI evolves it based
Building AI for better healthcare - Episode 14 Mar 16, 2026 30:54 Healthcare systems around the world are under strain, and both patients and clinicians are feeling the impact. OpenAI's Head of Health Dr. Nate Gross and Karan Singhal, who leads Health AI Research, discuss how AI can help address the biggest challenges. They cover how OpenAI is training models to handle sensitive health questions in collaboration with physicians, and how that foundation is unlock
The Thinking Behind Ads in ChatGPT - Episode 13 Feb 9, 2026 25:34 How should advertising work in an AI product? Asad Awan, one of the ad leads at OpenAI, walks through how the company is approaching this decision and why it’s testing ads in ChatGPT at all. He explains how ads are built to stay separate from the model response, keep conversations with ChatGPT private from advertisers, and give people control over their experience.Chapters00:00:29 — Mission and pr
State of the AI Industry - Episode 12 Jan 19, 2026 49:41 OpenAI CFO Sarah Friar and Khosla Ventures founder Vinod Khosla argue the greatest challenges in AI right now are keeping up with demand and making sure more people get the benefit. They unpack what's driving big investments in compute and why this moment is different from other technology cycles — with meaningful advances in health, agents, and robotics still ahead. Chapters00:00:00 — What’s
Shaping Model Behavior in GPT-5.1 - Episode 11 Dec 2, 2025 28:40 What does it mean for an AI model to have "personality"? Researcher Christina Kim and product manager Laurentia Romaniuk talk about how OpenAI set out to build a model that delivers on both IQ and EQ, while giving people more flexibility in how ChatGPT responds. They break down what goes into model behavior and why it's an important, but still imperfect blend of art and science.Chapters:- 00:00:43
How AI Is Accelerating Scientific Discovery Today and What's Ahead - Episode 10 Nov 20, 2025 48:12 AI is beginning to change how science gets done. Head of OpenAI for Science Kevin Weil and OpenAI research scientist Alex Lupsasca talk about the early signs of acceleration researchers are seeing with GPT-5—from surfacing literature across fields and languages, to speeding up complex calculations, to designing follow-up experiments. They unpack what’s possible today, what doesn’t work yet, and wh
ChatGPT Atlas and the next era of web browsing - Episode 9 Nov 13, 2025 1:14:21 How will the internet feel when your browser can actually help do things for you? OpenAI’s Ben Goodger and Darin Fisher, whose past work shaped some of the most popular modern browsers, dive into the making of ChatGPT Atlas. They explore how AI changes what a browser can be, from tabs you can talk to, to agents that take over tedious tasks. Learn more about the decisions they made along the way an

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