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AI as the greatest source of empowerment for all | OpenAI
https://openai.com/index/ai-as-the-greatest-source-of-empowerment-for-all/

I will officially start at OpenAI as CEO of Applications on August 18. I am sharing this essay on why I believe AI can be the greatest source of empowerment for all.
https://x.com/fidjissimo/status/1947341053209501716

BREAKING: OpenAI just launched ChatGPT Agent It allows ChatGPT to think, plan, and execute complex tasks on its own virtual computer while you do other things I had early access, and ChatGPT Agent built me a complete early retirement plan in 20 minutes: > Found local tax laws https://x.com/rowancheung/status/1945896543263080736

ChatGPT agent did real, revenue-generating work that used to take @mhp_guy an entire day. We’re gradually entering the age of the agentic economy — and it’s going to reshape capitalism as we know it. Traditionally, capitalism relied on two inputs: labor and capital. In the”” / X https://x.com/xikun_zhang_/status/1948244478265016327

ChatGPT agent Does Research & Actions – YouTube https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Ht2QW5PV-eY

ChatGPT agent for finding a great Airbnb:”” / X https://x.com/gdb/status/1946075573476069580

ChatGPT agent for working with Excel, Powerpoint, etc.:”” / X https://x.com/gdb/status/1946007318824673534

ChatGPT agent is now fully rolled out to all Plus, Pro, and Team users. Sorry about the delay! https://x.com/OpenAI/status/1948530029580939539

ChatGPT agent Makes Slideshows – YouTube https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=szJI9YJNEZk

ChatGPT agent Makes Spreadsheets – YouTube https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JAQ4p662It8

ChatGPT agent: “”create a PDF of a novel D&D adventure, add illustrations, make it super interesting and deep, add tables, etc”” “”Fix the formatting, build it out more”” Got a 19 page PDF. Agent doesn’t do layouts well, but pulls off building a coherent adventure, hard for LLMs. https://x.com/emollick/status/1946047390118445354

ChatGPT Agent: our first AI with access to a text browser, a visual browser, and a terminal. Rolling out in ChatGPT Pro, Plus, and Team today. https://x.com/gdb/status/1945907023444660644

I am finding ChatGPT agents to be useful. They are a better fit with the “”intern”” analogy than any former AI – requiring oversight, still saving lots of time overall. For example, I update an AI cost/performance chart frequently. The agent did all the grunt work, with guidance. https://x.com/emollick/status/1947482417888932258

I had early access & ChatGPT agent is, I think, a big step forward for getting AIs to do real work Even at this stage, it does a good job autonomously doing research & assembling Excel files (with formulas!), PowerPoint, etc. It gives a sense of how agents are coming together https://x.com/emollick/status/1945892669575647431

In the same way ChatGPT was the first AI experience for 90% of society, ChatGPT Agents will be the first Agent experience for 90% of society. If you are reading this, you are still early”” / X https://x.com/AtomSilverman/status/1945895569437642782

Introduction to ChatGPT agent – YouTube https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1jn_RpbPbEc

One implication from ChatGPT agent (not a creative name, but a descriptive one – a rare naming win!) is the labs are learning that many knowledge workers live in Excel & PowerPoint. Surprised that Microsoft did not do more to push past Copilots when they had this to themselves.”” / X https://x.com/emollick/status/1945926194043424954

OpenAI launches a general purpose agent in ChatGPT | TechCrunch https://techcrunch.com/2025/07/17/openai-launches-a-general-purpose-agent-in-chatgpt/

Recursion! I gave ChatGPT Agent access to my ChatGPT by logging in and then… https://x.com/emollick/status/1947829896845127983

RT @emollick: I had early access & ChatGPT agent is, I think, a big step forward for getting AIs to do real work Even at this stage, it do…”” / X https://x.com/nickaturley/status/1945975092342841487

RT @KerenGu: We’ve activated our strongest safeguards for ChatGPT Agent. It’s the first model we’ve classified as High capability in biolo…”” / X https://x.com/sama/status/1945995659682910540

tip for chatgpt agent slides: first ask it to do the research only, then ask it to make the slides!”” / X https://x.com/isafulf/status/1946231119751545014

Today we launched a new product called ChatGPT Agent. Agent represents a new level of capability for AI systems and can accomplish some remarkable, complex tasks for you using its own computer. It combines the spirit of Deep Research and Operator, but is more powerful than that”” / X https://x.com/sama/status/1945900345378697650

watching chatgpt agent use a computer to do complex tasks has been a real “”feel the agi”” moment for me; something about seeing the computer think, plan, and execute hits different.”” / X https://x.com/sama/status/1945901039104004467

When we founded OpenAI (10 years ago!!), one of our goals was to create an agent that could use a computer the same way as a human — with keyboard, mouse, and screen pixels. ChatGPT Agent is a big step towards that vision, and bringing its benefits to the world thoughtfully.”” / X https://x.com/gdb/status/1945923067403984979

You can ask ChatGPT Agent to train an AI on datasets you are interested in, and do analyses for you. Building AI and doing data analysis will be automated end-to-end in the future. You are hearing it right. We are working hard to automating our own job :)”” / X https://x.com/xikun_zhang_/status/1946278266786189744

It’s official: we’re developing 4.5 gigawatts of additional Stargate data center capacity with Oracle in the U.S (for a total of 5+ GWs!). And our Stargate I site in Abilene, TX is starting to come online to power our next-generation AI research. https://x.com/OpenAI/status/1947628731142648113

Stargate advances with 4.5 GW partnership with Oracle | OpenAI https://openai.com/index/stargate-advances-with-partnership-with-oracle/

OpenAI says ChatGPT users send over 2.5 billion prompts every day | The Verge https://www.theverge.com/news/710867/openai-chatgpt-daily-prompts-2-billion

OpenAI and UK sign deal to use AI in public services
https://www.bbc.com/news/articles/czdv68gejm7o

played 1 hour with GPT-5 on lmarena literally same prompts for both models and Grok-4 just falls apart while GPT-5 creates art”” / X https://x.com/scaling01/status/1948863325858922610

we have signed a deal for an additional 4.5 gigawatts of capacity with oracle as part of stargate. easy to throw around numbers, but this is a _gigantic_ infrastructure project. some progress photos from abilene: https://x.com/sama/status/1947640330318156074

we’re building over 5 gigawatts of Stargate compute with Oracle: https://x.com/gdb/status/1947666114772656482

we will cross well over 1 million GPUs brought online by the end of this year! very proud of the team but now they better get to work figuring out how to 100x that lol”” / X https://x.com/sama/status/1947057625780396512

We’re excited to have @shengjia_zhao at the helm as Chief Scientist of Meta Superintelligence Labs. Big things are coming! 🚀 See Mark’s post: https://x.com/AIatMeta/status/1948836042406330676

Another High-Profile OpenAI Researcher Departs for Meta | WIRED https://www.wired.com/story/jason-wei-open-ai-meta/

Heard Zuck poached 4 more OpenAI researchers, including some behind the open-source model. how deep are Zuck’s pockets?”” / X https://x.com/Yuchenj_UW/status/1946245685130793175

GPT-5 DELAYED UNTIL AUGUST OPENAI OPEN-SOURCE MODEL NEXT WEEK GPT-5, GPT-5 mini will be available in ChatGPT GPT-5 nano only in the API https://x.com/scaling01/status/1948421589675966673

Even if GPT-5 did nothing besides switching people between o3 and 4o automatically, it would really transform most people’s view of AI. Very few people, even paying users, know that they should often switch to a more capable model, and when you show them o3, they are impressed.”” / X https://x.com/emollick/status/1946958840697696581

OpenAI Preps ChatGPT Agents in Challenge to Microsoft Excel and PowerPoint — The Information https://www.theinformation.com/articles/openai-preps-chatgpt-agents-challenge-microsoft-excel-powerpoint

.@sama : “”GPT-5 is the smartest thing. GPT-5 is smarter than us in almost every way.”” Not sure how @OpenAI researchers here like me should be proud or sad about this. I choose to be proud for the moment. 😆 https://x.com/xikun_zhang_/status/1948627882235838482

According to reporting by the WSJ, there are at least ten employees at OpenAI who have turned down $300 million offers from Mark Zuckerberg.
https://x.com/AndrewCurran_/status/1947018650395066757

OpenAI prepares to launch GPT-5 in August | The Verge https://www.theverge.com/notepad-microsoft-newsletter/712950/openai-gpt-5-model-release-date-notepad

Perplexity Comet vs ChatGPT Agent”” / X https://x.com/AravSrinivas/status/1946076236683624616

An example of the power & limitations of ChatGPT agent I asked it to analyze a dataset from Kaggle, and turn it into a PPT and Excel. It made no errors, but I thought some of the data was odd. I gave that feedback & the AI figured out the data was bad and why. Human + AI needed https://x.com/emollick/status/1945944153554104379

ChatGPT agent for investment banking:”” / X https://x.com/gdb/status/1946074958238765503

Tejal Patwardhan on X: “these results were eye-opening for me… chatgpt agent performed better than i expected on some pretty realistic investment banking tasks https://t.co/nkpW0pr5jN” / X
https://x.com/tejalpatwardhan/status/1945894313977860203

OpenAI CEO Sam Altman warns of an AI ‘fraud crisis’ | CNN Business https://edition.cnn.com/2025/07/22/tech/openai-sam-altman-fraud-crisis

A $50 million fund to build with communities | OpenAI https://openai.com/index/50-million-fund-to-build-with-communities/

GPT-5 is so much better than Grok-4″” / X https://x.com/scaling01/status/1948863153795682709

This chart is apparently already out of date and overemphasizes water use, according to the numbers OpenAI released, 300 average ChatGPT queries is equivalent to 20 tablespoons of water, not 1 gallon.”” / X https://x.com/emollick/status/1947622752233390185

🚨New from us: Given they are trained on human data, can you use psychological techniques that work on humans to persuade AI? Yes! Applying Cialdini’s principles for human influence more than doubles the chance of GPT-4o-mini agrees to objectionable requests compared to controls https://x.com/emollick/status/1946251413312471210

Genspark ships no-code personal agents with GPT-4.1 and OpenAI Realtime API | OpenAI https://openai.com/index/genspark/

GPT-5 casually building cookie clicker with all features in 2 minutes https://x.com/scaling01/status/1948809543435395470

GPT‑4 Turbo grades code summaries almost like humans yet flags only 50% of faulty functions. The study asks whether models can replace fragile test suites and BLEU scores for everyday evaluation. Researchers checked 374 Java and Python tasks where 8 LLMs wrote or reviewed code, https://x.com/rohanpaul_ai/status/1948679870328045968

DevDay registration is open! → https://x.com/OpenAIDevs/status/1948067287359267129

woke up early on a saturday to have a couple of hours to try using our new model for a little coding project. done in 5 minutes. it is very, very good. not sure how i feel about it…”” / X https://x.com/sama/status/1946575101509734619

official results from @atcoder World Tour Finals are in — great results for both humans (#1 and #3 onwards) and AI (#2 in the world!). a milestone for AI for solving hard problems.”” / X https://x.com/gdb/status/1945989983569129632

ChatGPT, meet Notion.
https://x.com/NotionHQ/status/1948772739843596301

The new OpenAI editing update is incredible, so I made a little app to try it out. Just enter your API keys and you’re good to go. You can create or edit any image. I love having this saved on my home screen so I can use it on the go. https://x.com/skirano/status/1946642722430804413

gpt-5-reasoning-alpha-2025-07-13 h/t @swishfever https://x.com/btibor91/status/1946532308896628748

Sam teasing GPT-5 — reddit. com/r/singularity/comments/1m7i9of/sam_teasing_gpt5/ https://x.com/rohanpaul_ai/status/1948295440509612047

Lisan al Gaib on X: “btw I don’t want a model router I want to be able to select the models I use” / X
https://x.com/scaling01/status/1946903963200262523

Yuchen Jin on X: “Heard GPT-5 is imminent, from a little bird. – It’s not one model, but multiple models. It has a router that switches between reasoning, non-reasoning, and tool-using models. – That’s why Sam said they’d “fix model naming”: prompts will just auto-route to the right model. -” / X
https://x.com/Yuchenj_UW/status/1946777842131632427

ChatGPT for learning life-changing skills:”” / X https://x.com/gdb/status/1947053551085314224

You asked we delivered! Hugging Face Inference Providers is now fully OpenAI client compatible! 🔥 Simply append the provider name to the model ID OpenAI client is arguably the most used client when it comes to LLMs, so getting this right is a big milestone for the team! 🤗 https://x.com/reach_vb/status/1946222374019371437

Some small prompt hacks — reddit .com/r/ChatGPTPromptGenius/comments/1m4x4ks/ai_prompt_hacks_nobody_talks_about/ https://x.com/rohanpaul_ai/status/1947191060100260230

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