Greg Brockman on Astra and the Future of OpenAI

OpenAI cofounder Greg Brockman describes a product problem that better models alone do not solve: users must discover which capabilities can help with their particular task. In this interview, Brockman proposes that an assistant should explain when connecting an application or authorizing an action would let it do more. The broader goal described is for people to specify an outcome while software and model choices recede into the background. This is a proposed direction for making agent capabilities easier to use, rather than a claim that the discovery problem has already been solved.

“This is new knowledge for humanity, that the proof itself is actually very elegant and beautiful, and I think that there's a lot to learn from it.”

Greg Brockman

“I've just been blown away by the community reaction to Astra.”

Greg Brockman

“You look at how many people use chat for health, 300,000,000 people every single week with health queries.”

Greg Brockman

“I think that health with these AIs is something that we're still scratching the surface of what's possible, and I think it's one of the most positive applications of AI that you can think of.”

Greg Brockman