Greg Brockman discusses OpenAI's trajectory toward AGI, describing 2026 advances including GPT-6 Astra's 24-hour coherent operation and 10,000 agents solving Navier-Stokes equations. The conversation covers safety alignment priorities, workforce implications, and why AI sentiment remains lowest in the country leading its development.
OpenAI President Greg Brockman argues AI spending slowdowns should target only frontier labs with massive capex, not open-source projects. Market participants debate whether reduced AI infrastructure investment could impact economic growth, chip sales, and stock valuations, with some attributing recent volatility to tax deadlines and Treasury settlements rather than fundamental AI slowdown concerns.
GPT-6-Astra is a powerful AI model that excels at ambitious projects, 3D tasks, games, and computer use, showing dramatic improvements over previous models like Sol, though it remains inferior to Fable 5.1 for conversational tasks. OpenAI has positioned it as approaching AGI capabilities, though experts debate whether this label applies prematurely.