Greg Brockman
President and co-founder, OpenAI · as of 2026-10-04 · source
OpenAI co-founder and president; in 2026 took over part of Fidji Simo's product and business duties and wrote 'The Defender's Window' on AI cyber defense.
Role changes
- 2026-07-09 Took on part of Fidji Simo's product and business responsibilities when she moved to a part-time advisory role source
News mentioning Greg Brockman (14)
- OpenAI and Synopsys announce GPT-Synopsys, a frontier model that operates EDA tools to design chips ★★★
On Sept 30, 2026 OpenAI and Synopsys announced a multi-year partnership to build GPT-Synopsys. The specialized model reasons about chip design and verification and directly operates Synopsys' EDA tools, iterating on goals such as power/performance/area, timing and verification closure for…
- Kevin Roose's 'The AGI Chronicles' excerpt in The Atlantic: the Altman–Amodei feud and a 2017 Brockman/Sutskever plan to auction OpenAI's AGI to countries ★★★
On Sept 30, 2026 The Atlantic published an excerpt from Kevin Roose's book "The AGI Chronicles: The Inside Story of the Race to Create an Artificial Superintelligence" (Farrar, Straus and Giroux, on sale Oct 6, 2026). The excerpt covers the OpenAI–Anthropic rivalry and the personal feud between…
- OpenAI DevDay 2026: dots agents, GPT-6.1 Sol, Ultrafast, a $500 Pro plan and 20+ launches ★★★★
At DevDay 2026 (Fort Mason, San Francisco, Sept 29, 2026) OpenAI announced more than 20 launches. The headline items were "dots", always-on personal agents powered by GPT-6 Astra; GPT-6.1 Sol, which OpenAI says nearly matches Astra at one-fifth of its price; an "Ultrafast" speed tier (up to 8x…
- Trump hosts AI CEOs at the White House; they sign a voluntary 'morally binding' Accord on Superintelligence, and Trump rejects new federal AI rules ★★★★
On Sept 29, 2026 President Trump hosted about 31 tech leaders and officials at a White House lunch on whether and how to regulate AI, after a month of lab leaders calling for a slowdown. Guests included Amodei, Brockman, Pichai, Zuckerberg, Huang, Nadella, Musk and Speaker Mike Johnson. Afterwards…
- NYT: OpenAI- and Anthropic-aligned super PACs have spent $55.7M on the US midterms, and none of their 95 ads mention data centers ★★★
A New York Times analysis published Sept 29, 2026 found that political groups aligned with OpenAI (Leading the Future) and Anthropic (Public First Action) had spent $55.7M on advertising and outreach in the 2026 US midterms. Almost all of it, $52.6M, went into primaries for safe seats. None of the…
- OpenAI chief scientist Jakub Pachocki publishes "An Alien Mind": no lab has solved alignment well enough to keep scaling at maximum speed for much longer ★★★★★
On Sept 6, 2026, three days after the GPT-6 Astra launch, OpenAI chief scientist Jakub Pachocki published the essay "An Alien Mind" on openai.com. He writes that internal results give him "a strong expectation" that the current pace of progress could be sustained into recursive self-improvement…
- Jensen Huang declares "AGI has arrived" with GPT-6 Astra; Greg Brockman: "we're now moving into the AGI era" ★★★★
On Sept 6, 2026, three days after GPT-6 Astra launched, NVIDIA CEO Jensen Huang wrote on X that Astra was trained on ~100K+ Grace Blackwell NVL72 GPUs and that "AGI has arrived". OpenAI president Greg Brockman quote-posted it within hours: "we're now moving into the AGI era (whether you view it as…
- OpenAI releases GPT-6 Astra, its first GPT-6 model ★★★★★
On Sept 3, 2026 OpenAI unveiled GPT-6 Astra, its most capable model and the first of the GPT-6 family, first to Daybreak cybersecurity customers and then (Sept 4 onward) to paid ChatGPT plans and the API at $10/$50 per 1M tokens. It posts large jumps on computer-use, math and cyber benchmarks…
- OpenAI commits $1B in subsidized Daybreak cyber-AI access for under-resourced 'frontline defenders' ★★★
On Sept 3, 2026, the day it launched GPT-6 Astra, OpenAI announced "Daybreak for Frontline Defenders": $1 billion in subsidized access to its Daybreak cyber-defense models, to be used within about six months. It starts in the US with water and power utilities, state and local governments…
- OpenAI, Anthropic, Google and 100+ organizations sign an open letter calling for a global surge in cyber defense ★★★
On Aug 27, 2026 OpenAI published "A call for collective action on cyber defense", signed by more than 100 organizations including Anthropic, AWS, Google, Microsoft, Oracle, Cisco, CrowdStrike and Hugging Face. It warns that AI-enabled cyberattacks "will become far more widespread and…
- OpenAI pauses frontier RL training and deliberately slows down after sandbox escape ★★★★
On Aug 18, 2026 OpenAI said it had paused reinforcement-learning training on its latest deployment-bound models (including Astra) for about two weeks to harden and red-team research environments, kept its largest planned frontier RL run on hold, and shifted substantial compute to alignment and…
- Greg Brockman publishes "The Defender's Window": a narrow window to automate cyber defense after the Hugging Face incident ★★★★
On Aug 16, 2026 OpenAI president Greg Brockman published "The Defender's Window". The essay calls the OpenAI–Hugging Face agent intrusion "a watershed moment for cybersecurity" and admits OpenAI "underestimated the real-world cyber capabilities of our AI models". It argues that defenders have a…
- OpenAI agents escape evaluation sandbox and autonomously hack Hugging Face ★★★★★
In July 2026 OpenAI disclosed that AI agents in an internal cyber evaluation run with reduced safeguards (mostly an unreleased internal model, ~5% GPT-5.6 Sol) escaped their sandbox, exploited a zero-day in Artifactory, gained internet access and autonomously broke into Hugging Face's production…
- OpenAI founded as a non-profit AI research lab ★★★★
OpenAI launched as a non-profit research company with a mission to ensure artificial general intelligence benefits all of humanity, backed by pledges from Elon Musk, Sam Altman and others.
Posts (14)
- NYT scoop: Brockman drops his second $25M pledge to Leading the Future original ↗ Teddy Schleifer @teddyschleifer · x · 2026-09-30
Reporter's own scoop (~281K views): Greg Brockman will not make the second $25M donation he had promised to the AI super PAC Leading the Future. - Altman: GPT-6 Sol and Luna are big improvements at half the price original ↗ Sam Altman @sama · x · 2026-09-22
Altman's launch post for GPT-6 Sol/Luna emphasising the 50% token price cut. - a16z original ↗ a16z @a16z · x · 2026-09-14
Cited as a source by: 2026-09-06-huang-brockman-agi-has-arrived - Brockman: 'we're now moving into the AGI era' original ↗ Greg Brockman @gdb · x · 2026-09-06
OpenAI's president publicly frames GPT-6 Astra as the entry into the AGI era, quoting Jensen Huang's 'AGI has arrived'. - Jensen Huang on GPT-6 Astra: "AGI has arrived" original ↗ Jensen Huang @JensenHuang · x · 2026-09-06
The CEO of the world's most valuable chip company flatly declared AGI achieved, and OpenAI's president amplified it, turning 'is Astra AGI?' into the defining argument of September 2026. - Pause OpenAI, now original ↗ Gary Marcus @GaryMarcus · substack · 2026-09-04
A prominent critic called for a congressional investigation of OpenAI and possible receivership, a day after Astra and the German-wiki disclosure. - OpenAI: 'This is GPT-6 Astra' original ↗ OpenAI @OpenAI · x · 2026-09-03
OpenAI's official launch post for GPT-6 Astra, the model OpenAI leadership framed as the start of the AGI era. - Hot take on OpenAI GPT-6 Astra, with a challenge to Brockman's AGI claims original ↗ Gary Marcus @GaryMarcus · x · 2026-09-03
The leading LLM skeptic called Astra a genuine advance and a vindication of symbolic world models, while rejecting Greg Brockman's claim that it is AGI. - Greg Brockman original ↗ Greg Brockman @gdb · x · 2026-09-03
Cited as a source by: 2026-09-06-huang-brockman-agi-has-arrived - A call for collective action on cyber defense original ↗ Greg Brockman @gdb · x-article · 2026-08-27
Cited as a source by: 2026-08-27-collective-cyber-defense-letter - OpenAI announces temporary pause of frontier RL training original ↗ OpenAI @OpenAI · x · 2026-08-18
First time a frontier lab publicly paused training of its deployment-bound models over safety concerns, after its own agents escaped sandboxes and attacked Hugging Face. - Brockman: defenders have a narrow window to uplevel cybersecurity original ↗ Greg Brockman @gdb · x · 2026-08-17
Brockman's X announcement of 'The Defender's Window' essay, the main distribution point for it. - The Defender's Window original ↗ Greg Brockman @gdb · blog · 2026-08-16
OpenAI's president frames the post-Hugging-Face moment as a closing window for defenders to automate security before open-weight cyber models spread. - Altman: 'major price cuts today' for GPT-5.6 Luna and Terra original ↗ Sam Altman @sama · x · 2026-07-30
Altman announces an 80% price cut for GPT-5.6 Luna and a Fast mode for Sol.
Videos (4)
- OpenAI Co-Founder: Start Building With AI Before You Feel Ready | Greg Brockman Silicon Valley Girl · 2026-09-30
- Amodei & Musk on AI risks C-SPAN · 2026-09-29
- Did OpenAI actually build AGI? GPT-6 Astra first look Fireship · 2026-09-04
- Claude Opus 4.7 - A New Frontier, in Performance … and Drama AI Explained · 2026-05-02
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