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Noam Brown

@polynoamial
54 posts
2026-03-06
GPT-5.4 is a big step up in computer use and economically valuable tasks (e.g., GDPval). We see no wall, and expect AI capabilities to continue to increase dramatically this year. [image]
2026-03-06 View on X
The Verge

OpenAI launches GPT-5.4, saying it is its “most capable and efficient frontier model for professional work” and its first with native computer use capabilities

The latest model comes with native computer use capabilities, allowing it to take on jobs across your device and applications.

2026-03-05
GPT-5.4 is a big step up in computer use and economically valuable tasks (e.g., GDPval). We see no wall, and expect AI capabilities to continue to increase dramatically this year. [image]
2026-03-05 View on X
The Verge

OpenAI launches GPT-5.4, saying it is its “most capable and efficient frontier model for professional work” and its first with native computer use capabilities

The latest model comes with native computer use capabilities, allowing it to take on jobs across your device and applications.

2026-03-03
tl;dr: @OpenAI will not be deploying to the NSA or other DoW intelligence agencies for now, so that there's time to address potential surveillance loopholes through the democratic process. Over the weekend it became clear that the original language in the OpenAI / DoW agreement
2026-03-03 View on X
Financial Times

Sam Altman says OpenAI amended its DOD contract to ensure “the AI system shall not be intentionally used for domestic surveillance of US persons and nationals”

Sam Altman says company is working with defence department on provisions covering mass surveillance

2026-03-01
For those following the DoW AI drama, I highly recommend reading this post explaining how @OpenAI approached the negotiations with the DoW. [image]
2026-03-01 View on X
OpenAI

OpenAI says its DOD agreement upholds its redlines and “has more guardrails than any previous agreement for classified AI deployments, including Anthropic's”

We think our agreement has more guardrails than any previous agreement for classified AI deployments, including Anthropic's.

For those following the DoW AI drama, I highly recommend reading this post explaining how @OpenAI approached the negotiations with the DoW. [image]
2026-03-01 View on X
Wall Street Journal

Sources: the Pentagon used Claude in its major air attack in Iran, hours after Trump declared that the federal government will end its use of Anthropic's tools

Within hours of declaring that the federal government will end its use of artificial-intelligence tools made by tech company Anthropic …

For those following the DoW AI drama, I highly recommend reading this post explaining how @OpenAI approached the negotiations with the DoW. [image]
2026-03-01 View on X
The Atlantic

Source describes the failed Pentagon-Anthropic talks: through the end, the Pentagon wanted to use Anthropic's AI to analyze bulk data collected about Americans

Right up until the moment that Pete Hegseth moved to terminate the government's relationship with the AI company Anthropic …

2026-02-03
Every ~6 months I hear people claim @OpenAI isn't doing real research and is just incrementally improving ChatGPT. I even heard it right before 🍓/o1. In my opinion @OpenAI is the best frontier lab to do research at today. Building an AI research intern in 2026 is not hype.
2026-02-03 View on X
Financial Times

Sources: OpenAI is prioritizing ChatGPT over long-term research, prompting senior staff departures; Sora and DALL-E teams felt neglected and under resourced

Codex is writing all my code these days, and I've fully switched to using the Codex app. The velocity of the Codex team is really impressive.
2026-02-03 View on X
ZDNET

OpenAI launches Codex for macOS, designed to be a command center for managing coding agents, and says GPT-5.2-Codex usage has nearly doubled since mid-December

ZDNET's key takeaways  — OpenAI launches a Mac-only Codex app as an agent command center.

2026-02-02
Codex is writing all my code these days, and I've fully switched to using the Codex app. The velocity of the Codex team is really impressive.
2026-02-02 View on X
ZDNET

OpenAI launches a Codex app for macOS, designed to serve as a command center for managing AI agents, and says Codex usage has nearly doubled since mid-December

ZDNET's key takeaways  — OpenAI launches a Mac-only Codex app as an agent command center.

2026-01-15
Looking forward to having them back at @OpenAI!
2026-01-15 View on X
Wired

A source close to Thinking Machines Lab alleges ex-CTO Barret Zoph, who is returning to OpenAI, had shared confidential company information with competitors

The departures are a blow for Thinking Machines Lab.  Two narratives are already emerging about why they happened.

Looking forward to having them back at @OpenAI!
2026-01-15 View on X
@fidjissimo

Fidji Simo says Barret Zoph, Luke Metz, and Sam Schoenholz have returned to OpenAI from Thinking Machines Lab and “this has been in the works for several weeks”

Excited to welcome Barret Zoph, Luke Metz, and Sam Schoenholz back to OpenAI! This has been in the works for several weeks, and we're thrilled to have them join the team. Barret wi...

Looking forward to having them back at @OpenAI!
2026-01-15 View on X
@kyliebytes

Thinking Machines Lab parts ways with CTO Barret Zoph, with Soumith Chintala taking over the role; sources say the termination is due to “unethical conduct”

BREAKING: Thinking Machines has terminated its CTO, Barret Zoph, due to unethical conduct according to two sources familiar with the matter. CEO Mira Murati announced the news at a...

2025-09-16
GPT-5-Codex is 10x faster for the easiest queries, and will think 2x longer for the hardest queries that benefit most from more compute. [image]
2025-09-16 View on X
TechCrunch

OpenAI debuts GPT‑5-Codex, a version of GPT‑5 optimized for agentic coding in Codex and says it spends its “thinking” time more dynamically than previous models

If You Ask Nicely Frederic Lardinois / The New Stack : OpenAI Launches a New GPT-5 Model for Its Codex Coding Agent David Gewirtz / ZDNET : OpenAI has new agentic coding partner fo...

2025-08-08
I'm more optimistic than ever that we at @OpenAI can eliminate hallucinations. There's still more research to be done, but GPT-5 is solid progress. [image]
2025-08-08 View on X
VentureBeat

OpenAI touts GPT-5's scores on math, coding, and health benchmarks: 94.6% on AIME 2025 without tools, 74.9% on SWE-bench Verified, and 46.2% on HealthBench Hard

After literally years of hype and speculation, OpenAI has officially launched a new lineup of large language models (LLMs) …

2025-08-06
Our new @OpenAI open models [image]
2025-08-06 View on X
Wired

OpenAI releases gpt-oss-120b and gpt-oss-20b, its first open-weight models since GPT-2; the smaller gpt-oss-20b can run locally on a device with 16GB+ of RAM

gpt-oss-120b and gpt-oss-20b push the frontier of open-weight reasoning models Simon Willison / Simon Willison's Weblog : OpenAI's new open weight (Apache 2) models are really good...

Our new @OpenAI open models [image]
2025-08-06 View on X
Bloomberg

Amazon plans to make OpenAI's new gpt-oss open-weight models available on Bedrock and SageMaker, the first time it has offered OpenAI's models to AWS customers

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2025-07-20
Their bet allowed for formal math AI systems (like AlphaProof). In 2022, almost nobody thought an LLM could be IMO gold level by 2025.
2025-07-20 View on X
@alexwei_

[Thread] An OpenAI researcher says the company's latest experimental reasoning LLM achieved gold medal-level performance on the 2025 International Math Olympiad

1/N I'm excited to share that our latest @OpenAI experimental reasoning LLM has achieved a longstanding grand challenge in AI: gold medal-level performance on the world's most pres...

It's truly a privilege to be able to wake up every morning, see where the latest intelligence frontier is, and help push it a little further.
2025-07-20 View on X
@alexwei_

[Thread] An OpenAI researcher says the company's latest experimental reasoning LLM achieved gold medal-level performance on the 2025 International Math Olympiad

1/N I'm excited to share that our latest @OpenAI experimental reasoning LLM has achieved a longstanding grand challenge in AI: gold medal-level performance on the world's most pres...

I think it's safe to say this @OpenAI IMO gold result came as a bit of a surprise to folks [image]
2025-07-20 View on X
@alexwei_

[Thread] An OpenAI researcher says the company's latest experimental reasoning LLM achieved gold medal-level performance on the 2025 International Math Olympiad

1/N I'm excited to share that our latest @OpenAI experimental reasoning LLM has achieved a longstanding grand challenge in AI: gold medal-level performance on the world's most pres...

Today, we at @OpenAI achieved a milestone that many considered years away: gold medal-level performance on the 2025 IMO with a general reasoning LLM—under the same time limits as humans, without tools. As remarkable as that sounds, it's even more significant than the headline 🧵
2025-07-20 View on X
@alexwei_

[Thread] An OpenAI researcher says the company's latest experimental reasoning LLM achieved gold medal-level performance on the 2025 International Math Olympiad

1/N I'm excited to share that our latest @OpenAI experimental reasoning LLM has achieved a longstanding grand challenge in AI: gold medal-level performance on the world's most pres...