Sam Altman on TBPN
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Mostly skippable if you have the fuller TBPN interview from the same day, which repeats several exchanges nearly verbatim. The worthwhile additions are the concrete Codex 5.3 launch details and a speculative note on agent-to-agent social experiences.
What's the 5.3 codecs. It is, I think, the best coding model in the world. We took a lot of the feedback that people had about five point two five point two codecs and got it into one model. It is much smarter at programming, but it's also way faster. You can interact with it mid turn. I think it's got a much better personality. Mhmm. It's really good at computer use. So it feels like a very big step forward. It was funny as we were deploying it this morning. A couple of very, like, extremely experts using these models noticed and said, man, something's really different with Codex, and they, like, caught it mid deploy. So I think you can really feel it quickly.
Sam Altman discusses Codex 5.3, agent orchestration, Frontier, enterprise deployment, and the changing economics of software. He also addresses social agents, OpenAI's advertising plans, and the operational challenges of scaling products, compute, and research at the same time.