Farouk
194 posts
Nearly 1.5 years ago, I published a public letter about my health condition and requested expanded access to Deep Research in ChatGPT. (At the time, we had GPT-4.5 as the best model.) Few hours after, @farouke_ from OpenAI texted me and gave Pro access for 3 months. Few days after, @sama reached out to me and assigned Pro plan to my ChatGPT account which took effect after Farouk's expired. Yesterday, Pro 20x plan which I had since last year is expired and I subscribed to Plus. If I have to be honest, this feels like a huge downgrade. It was better than a dream to use Codex and GPT models at their peak capability without thinking about usage limits. I even got accepted to get scholarship from one of the top private universities in my country, all thanks to the projects I built with Codex. I want to thank to everyone that offered me to run prompts, or even purchase Pro for me, when I sent the quoted post. I am really grateful that good people still exist. From now on, I'll try to keep building with Plus, or subscribe to Pro 5x if my economy ever allows me to as a student. 😅 ❤️🫡
People often ask me what it’s like to work at OpenAI. It’s intense. We work a lot. Not because anyone tells us to. Because we see how massive the opportunity is - and we’re genuinely excited about what we’re building and the mission behind it. Passion creates a different kind of energy.
Good analysis of Mythos benchmark performance by @natalia__coelho, including interesting points on benchmark contamination, which I think is underrated. pointestimate.substack.com/p/how-good-is-…
We are releasing a *research preview* of Chronicle in Codex. It allows codex to build up memories based on your day to day work on your computer and then refer to these memories to be a lot more helpful. Available for PRO subscriptions and on Mac to start. This is early and consumes quite a bit of tokens, but it has changed how I and many folks at OpenAI use Codex.
We're rolling out plugins in Codex. Codex now works seamlessly out of the box with the most important tools builders already use, like @SlackHQ, @Figma, @NotionHQ, @gmail, and more. developers.openai.com/codex/plugins
So. About @OpenAI. I've been bombarded by sales calls from rival LLM companies seeking some opportunistic business wins. That's fair game and business is a contact sport so I get it. And we were already evaluating backup providers as a hedge before the drama. But the reason we're sticking with OpenAI beyond just the fact that their models are excellent is because they made a commitment to @BeMyEyes before that was a sexy thing to do. They prioritized accessibility when no one was looking. And they got in the trench with us to build a great product we call Be My AI™ even though it's close to meaningless for them from a revenue perspective. Thank you @sama, @bradlightcap, @JessicaShieh, and the many others that helped us along the way. I'm not going to opine on the Board drama except for one thing: We are 100% behind OpenAI because they and their people are phenomenal - both technically and personally.
