OpenAI
Organization referenced as the early developer of versions of ChatGPT; one of Hinton's students left OpenAI citing safety concerns.
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Videos Mentioning OpenAI

Hard truths about building in the AI era | Keith Rabois (Khosla Ventures)
Lenny's Podcast
Mentioned as a company powered by Work OS, and as a foundational lab in the AI space.

Can Downgrading Your Tech Upgrade Your Results? | Cal Newport
Cal Newport
An AI research and deployment company, mentioned as producing large language models that attract recent attention.

⚡️ The best engineers don't write the most code. They delete the most code. — Stay Sassy
Latent Space
An artificial intelligence research laboratory that was mentioned in the context of high token usage by an individual and their team.

Stanford CS336 Language Modeling from Scratch | Spring 2026 | Lecture 1: Overview, Tokenization
Stanford Online
The organization that embraced scaling and released GPT papers, significantly influencing the development of large language models.

Notion’s Sarah Sachs & Simon Last on Custom Agents, Evals, and the Future of Work
Latent Space
Mentioned in the context of early agent development and partnerships, and its models being used or compared.

World Collapse Expert: We’re Entering The Most Dangerous Global Power Vacuum Ever
The Diary Of A CEO
Leading AI research company, mentioned as having Sam Altman as CEO.

Claude Opus-4.7 Just Dropped, And...
Nick Saraev
A prominent AI research company, known for developing models like GPT-3.

Why Claude Feels Different (And What That Means for AI) | The a16z Show
a16z
Mentioned as a leading AI research company that faces challenges in making AI models more accessible and useful. They were involved in discussions about personality development in AI models.

THEY’RE BRAINWASHING YOU! (& other secrets that made you click) - Etymology Nerd
Chris Williamson
Discussed as an AI platform that, like others, is primarily driven by making money, contrasting with Anthropic's (perceived) greater focus on alignment and safety.

OpenAI's Identity Crisis, Datacenter Wars, Market Up on Iran News, Mamdani's First Tax, Swalwell Out
All-In Podcast
The discussion revolves around OpenAI's perceived identity crisis, its pivot to enterprise customers, its valuation, and competition with Anthropic.

Why half of product managers are in trouble | Nikhyl Singhal (Meta, Google)
Lenny's Podcast
Mentioned as a company building AI products. Its head, Sam Altman, was asked about slowing down AI development.

How to Build Discipline in a Distracted World
Cal Newport
AI research company where Sam Altman is CEO, central to a discussion about his leadership.

OpenAI Co-Founder on the AI Race, the Sam Altman Firing, and What Comes Next
The Knowledge Project Podcast
The central subject of the discussion, detailing its founding, mission, internal conflicts, and future trajectory.

CI/CD Breaks at AI Speed: Tangle, Graphite Stacks, Pro-Model PR Review — Mikhail Parakhin, Shopify
Latent Space
Mentioned in relation to the models that power some AI tools and the development of Sydney.

Stanford CS25: Transformers United V6 I Overview of Transformers
Stanford Online
Mentioned as the developer of large language models like GPT-4 and GPT-5, which are computationally expensive to train.

The Jobs AI Won’t Take. "A Lot Of Jobs We Have Now Will Go Away BUT..." | Ben Horowitz
Tom Bilyeu
Stated to be very good at reasoning, and part of the discussion on AI development and investment strategy.

Stanford Neuroscientist: Can’t Remember Your Dreams? Your Brain May Be Warning You!
The Diary Of A CEO
Mentioned as a company training artificial neural networks, requiring thousands or millions of examples to learn, unlike human one-trial learning.

How Anthropic’s product team moves faster than anyone else | Cat Wu (Head of Product, Claude Code)
Lenny's Podcast
Mentioned as one of the companies powered by Work OS, and also as a competitor that Anthropic was initially behind.

How to Make Claude Code Your AI Engineering Team
Y Combinator
OpenAI's codecs are used by GStack for image generation tasks during the design phase.

Is AI Trending Up or Down in 2026? (Let’s Take a Closer Look)
Cal Newport
A company frequently mentioned in conjunction with Anthropic, discussing their acquisition of Open Claw, their business model, and their financial state.

Picking sharp problems, increasing virality, and unique product frameworks | Oji Udezue (Typeform)
Lenny's Podcast
Mentioned as an example of innovation that isn't solely driven by customer science, highlighting that bold new solutions can emerge from inspiration and visionary thinking.

GPT 5.5 Arrives, DeepSeek V4 Drops, and the Compute War Intensifies
AI Explained
The organization behind GPT-5.5. They are presented as actively trying to maintain their position in the AI landscape, releasing new models and conducting internal benchmarking.

SpaceX-Cursor Deal, SaaS Debt Bomb, New Apple CEO, SPLC Indictment, Colon Cancer Spike
All-In Podcast
Cited as a generalist AI company that Cursor initially competed against, and is now vertically integrating into coding.

Replit's CEO On The Only Two Jobs Left In The Company Of The Future
Y Combinator
Mentioned implicitly in the context of advanced AI models like Opus 4.6 and Openclaw, which influence Replit's roadmap.