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Saturday, April 11, 2026
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Here is a photo of my family. I love them more than anything. Images have power, I hope. Normally we try to be pretty private, but in this case I...
Saturday, October 4, 2025
Sora update #1
We have been learning quickly from how people are using Sora and taking feedback from users, rightsholders, and other interested groups. We of course spent a lot of time discussing...
Tuesday, September 30, 2025
Sora 2
We are launching a new app called Sora. This is a combination of a new model called Sora 2, and a new product that makes it easy to create, share,...
Tuesday, September 23, 2025
Abundant Intelligence
Growth in the use of AI services has been astonishing; we expect it to be even more astonishing going forward.As AI gets smarter, access to AI will be a fundamental...
Tuesday, September 9, 2025
Jakub and Szymon
AI has gotten remarkably better in recent years; ChatGPT can do amazing things that we take for granted. This is as it should be, and is the story of human...
Tuesday, June 10, 2025
The Gentle Singularity
We are past the event horizon; the takeoff has started. Humanity is close to building digital superintelligence, and at least so far it’s much less weird than it seems like...
Sunday, February 9, 2025
Three Observations
Our mission is to ensure that AGI (Artificial General Intelligence) benefits all of humanity. Systems that start to point to AGI* are coming into view, and so we think it’s...
Monday, January 6, 2025
Reflections
The second birthday of ChatGPT was only a little over a month ago, and now we have transitioned into the next paradigm of models that can do complex reasoning. New...
Monday, May 13, 2024
GPT-4o
There are two things from our announcement today I wanted to highlight.First, a key part of our mission is to put very capable AI tools in the hands of people...
Thursday, December 21, 2023
What I Wish Someone Had Told Me
Optimism, obsession, self-belief, raw horsepower and personal connections are how things get started. Cohesive teams, the right combination of calmness and urgency, and unreasonable commitment are how things get finished....
Wednesday, July 13, 2022
Helion Needs You
Helion has been progressing even faster than I expected and is on pace in 2024 to 1) demonstrate Q > 1 fusion and 2) resolve all questions needed to design...
Wednesday, April 6, 2022
DALL•E 2
Today we did a research launch of DALL•E 2, a new AI tool that can create and edit images from natural language instructions. Most importantly, we hope people love the...
Friday, November 5, 2021
Helion
I’m delighted to be investing more in Helion. Helion is by far the most promising approach to fusion I’ve seen.David and Chris are two of the most impressive founders and...
Tuesday, December 1, 2020
The Strength of Being Misunderstood
A founder recently asked me how to stop caring what other people think. I didn’t have an answer, and after reflecting on it more, I think it's the wrong question.Almost...
Friday, September 25, 2020
PG and Jessica
A lot of people want to replicate YC in some other industry or some other place or with some other strategy. In general, people seem to assume that: 1) although...
Friday, June 19, 2020
Researchers and Founders
I spent many years working with founders and now I work with researchers.Although there are always individual exceptions, on average it’s surprising to me how different the best people in...
Tuesday, June 16, 2020
Project Covalence
Almost every company and non-profit working on COVID-19 that I offered to help asked for support with clinical trials—for companies focusing on developing novel drugs, vaccines, and diagnostics, rapidly spinning...
Thursday, May 28, 2020
Idea Generation
The most common question prospective startup founders ask is how to get ideas for startups. The second most common question is if you have any ideas for their startup.But giving...
Monday, March 30, 2020
Please Fund More Science
Experts on the COVID-19 pandemic seem to think there are three ways out—that is, for life, health, and the economy to return roughly to normal. Either we get a vaccine...
Sunday, March 15, 2020
Funding for COVID-19 Projects
I’m trying to fund startups/projects helping with COVID-19, because it’s basically the one thing I know how to do that can help. I think we will soon have enough testing...
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