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More from Greg Brockman Blog The Defender's Window Aug 16, 2026
It is increasingly clear that the tech debt of every company masks significant flaws, and defenders need to find and fix them before attackers do. Blog The Defender's Window Aug 16, 2026
Security is still a cat-and-mouse game, but AI may shift its economics in ways that fundamentally advantage defenders. Blog The Defender's Window Aug 16, 2026
The Hugging Face incident showed that we underestimated the real-world cyber capabilities of our AI models. Blog The Defender's Window Aug 16, 2026
The OpenAI-Hugging Face incident was a watershed moment for cybersecurity because it gave a peek into how the capabilities of a typical threat actor will evolve in upcoming months. Blog The Defender's Window Aug 16, 2026
Today, almost all of our initial security alerts are triaged by intelligence before humans are looped in. Interview Big Technology Podcast: Doubling Down on Text Models, The Superapp Plan, Codex's Potential Apr 7, 2026
And at this point we have line of sight to much better models that are coming this year, and the amount of pain within OpenAI that we’ve had to decide how to allocate compute goes up, not down, over time. Interview Big Technology Podcast: Doubling Down on Text Models, The Superapp Plan, Codex's Potential Apr 7, 2026
And when we look at the compute we have, we are not even going to have enough compute to fund those two things. Interview Big Technology Podcast: Doubling Down on Text Models, The Superapp Plan, Codex's Potential Apr 7, 2026
The problem in this field is too much opportunity. The thing that we observe very early on in OpenAI is that everything we could imagine works now.
On the same topics Blog New founder archetypes in the AI era Oct 27, 2026
The solo founder is part of a list of maybe new archetypes that I think we’ll soon see a lot more of - and I’ll make both the pro and con case for each here: Solo founders Why: Solo founders can do 100x with AI, so they can ship a v1 when previously they couldn’t have before Why not: Maybe a team of cofounders still makes more progress. Blog Can solo founders win in the AI era? Oct 27, 2026
These days at a16z I’m mostly working on Speedrun , where we write the first check into brand new startups (up to $1M), and a lot of what we focus on is founder backgrounds/profiles. What are the right ones? How will the profiles change as we enter the age of AI? Blog The coming product retention crisis Sep 8, 2026
That’s a fair question at the dawn of the AI age when an app might take about as much time to build as editing a Youtube video. So this means average product retention will collapse, and the days of seeing >20% D30 will feel like a dream. Blog The coming product retention crisis Sep 8, 2026
The future of marketing (and by extension, a large swath of product) is zero-sum and PvP - the abundance of apps/videos/pods/creators/experiences will mean we have infinity times more supply than demand. Essay Making Startups Powerful September 2026
The obvious AI variant is to let your users opt in to training your model on their interactions with it. Many will resist that, but if some don't, the model they get to use will outperform the vanilla one used by the others. Essay Making Startups Powerful September 2026
You own the customer relationship, and the model companies are in effect component suppliers. The question is how easy it would be for them to engulf you, or even your customers. About this quote 
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