Keep pulling the thread on Kevin Weil.
OpenAI's general mindset is that a better model will be released approximately every two months, surpassing the limitations of current models.
Kevin Wheel predicts that fine-tuning models will become a core workflow for most product development, leading to the integration of researcher or ML engineer roles into most product teams.
Kevin Wheel predicts that writing 'evals' (evaluations) will become a core skill for product managers building with AI.
Kevin Wheel predicts the future of AI will involve broad base models that are fine-tuned with company-specific or use-case-specific data to achieve high performance on specialized tasks.
OpenAI has 3 million developers using its API.
OpenAI believes there are immense opportunities for startups to build AI-based products in every industry, as OpenAI itself cannot and does not want to build most of these applications.
OpenAI follows a product philosophy called 'iterative deployment,' which involves shipping products early, even with unknown capabilities, to learn and co-evolve with the public.
OpenAI's product philosophy includes 'model maximalism,' which means they avoid building extensive scaffolding around current model limitations because they expect a better model to eliminate those limitations within approximately two months.
According to CPO Kevin Wheel, OpenAI's previous 'massive' 12-month model lead over competitors has shrunk and is no longer as significant.
OpenAI was the first to build and launch a model capable of reasoning, which could perform step-by-step thinking to solve complex problems rather than providing an immediate answer.
ChatGPT has over 400 million weekly active users and is supported by a small customer support team of approximately 30-40 people due to extensive automation.
A film director told Kevin Wheel that OpenAI's Sora allows them to generate 50 variations of a complex cut scene, compared to the two versions they would have received from a 3D effects company for $100,000 over a month.