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CEO of Applications, OpenAI · Jan 5, 2026 10 months ago · Blog, Closing the capability gap
Raw intelligence won’t be enough to make AI the greatest source of empowerment.
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More from Fidji Simo
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- I asked whether I should be taking this antibiotic given my medical history, and ChatGPT flagged that this particular antibiotic could reactivate a very serious infection I’d had a couple of years prior.
- In 2026, ChatGPT will become more than a chatbot you can talk to to get advice and answers; it will evolve into a true personal super-assistant that helps you get things done.
- The leader in AI will be the company that turns frontier research into products that are undeniably useful for people, businesses, and developers.
- This explicitly does not mean it’s the app people spend the most time on, but it should be the app that delivers the most value.
- Once we put a personalized AI tutor on every topic at everyone’s fingertips, AI will close the gap between people who have the resources to learn and people who have historically been left behind.
- The choices we make today will shape whether the coming transformation leads to greater empowerment for all, or greater concentration of wealth and power for the few.
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- Truly effective defense will mean truly trusting agents to act autonomously, but most companies won’t do that until they are forced to by regular and unremitting hacks by fully autonomous attackers.
- What this means is that model performance isn’t the only thing that matters: the integration between model and harness is where true agent differentiation is found.
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- Fidji Simo, CEO of Applications, OpenAI
- Where
- Closing the capability gap
- Topics
- Agents
- Company
OpenAI
- Source
- fidjisimo.substack.com/p/closing-the-capability-gap
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