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Greg Brockman on Why OpenAI Says We’re Entering the AGI Era
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- The a16z Show
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- Sep 14, 2026
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Summary
Ben Horowitz and Erik Torenberg sit down with OpenAI co-founder and President Greg Brockman to discuss why he believes AI has entered a new phase, what OpenAI’s latest models reveal about the path to AGI, and the safety and security challenges that come with increasingly capable systems. Greg explains why computer use represents such an important step for agents, including models that can work coherently for 24 hours and interact with software through the same interfaces humans use. He also shares how OpenAI deployed 10,000 agents to tackle the Navier-Stokes problem, and why advances in mathematical reasoning could translate into new approaches to science, software, and cybersecurity. Ben, Erik, and Greg also dig into the “defender’s window” for cybersecurity, how AI could reshape work and entrepreneurship, and what the AI assistant of the future might actually look like: persistent, proactive, personalized, and capable of doing work on your behalf rather than waiting for another prompt.