Ryan Brewer

Excited to share that I’ve joined OpenAI to help build the future of financial intelligence. My focus is connecting models directly to the data sources, tools, and workflows analysts use every day. My team’s first product is the Excel plugin. After software engineering, finance will see the benefits of model improvements more acutely than almost any other field. This is just the start for us! More to come soon!

@gabriel1 Bait

i challenge anyone who listens to music for 6+ hours a day to quit for a week to: 1) realize it's an addiction 2) realize how much better your thoughts become

@Chrisgpt Eval was saturated the cure was in the training data actually

One day AI will cure a disease. And many people in this platform will look you dead in the eye and say “the cure was already in the corpus of human knowledge and it’s not truly intelligent”

@itsjessyin Heard Chat is great in excel

using google sheets AI affirms that i made the right choice to leave my junior level finance job (assuming AI in excel is just as good/better). modelling by hand is going to feel as archaic as coding by hand in a few months and same for making decks

@_simonsmith I’d be curious to see you make a skill that leverages the generate_image tool to create full decks inside of PowerPoint? You can tell the model you don’t care if things are editable and generate full height + width images!

First test of ChatGPT in PowerPoint went well. I gave it a CSV of companies disrupted by AI and asked it to find the most compelling signals, craft a narrative, and turn that into an 11-slide deck with both charts and generated images. It took about 15 minutes, including data analysis, story development, slide creation, image generation, and a QA pass where it found and fixed real issues, including a nasty chart-formatting bug. The output was professional enough that I could present it as-is. Design-wise, I’d put it just below Claude Opus in Cowork caliber, but with the advantage that it can generate images directly inside the deck, which is huge. For most users and many business situations, the first draft would probably be good enough. But now that I make my decks by generating every slide as a gorgeous image in Codex, my bar is very high! So next I'm going to see how much I can replicate my Codex deck design flow with ChatGPT in PowerPoint.

@KenWattana @ADoricko Bullish if so

@ryanbrewer @ADoricko is this in the roadmap?

Someone start a company to harness lightning and tornadoes at scale plz

@pronounced_kyle The incentives / motivations need to be aligned. When they are, people should work their face off. It’s hard to find, especially in early stage where most founders are completely unserious

I think everyone is misinterpreting this piece. Will isn't saying "don't work hard," he's saying "hard work is not an end in itself." The self-referential point is the key, I think. You gotta have a purpose / a reason to grind, that's all.

@rennyzucker 100% agree

@ryanbrewer If anything, I try to run commands from an abstract control plane and let heavy compute run in a more native environment. Research/tinkering and actual long-lived process should never happen on the same device imo. Virtual LANs are a superpower.

Pretty strange way of telling us the median codex user is totally unserious

@TerasTisFiseos Yes it should! Please try and let us know

@ryanbrewer Does this respect templates and reuse slide formats/styles? This is sth that nobody out of the big 3 (Google, Anthropic, OpenAI) seems to be doing.

Excited to announce ChatGPT for Powerpoint! This was another super interesting build. Create new slides, ask questions across your deck, and make updates directly in PowerPoint. chatgpt.com/apps/powerpoin…

@rennyzucker That’s fair, there’s still a gap for me on what I can access with full computer use vs. on a normal dev box so I’ve actually found this pretty useful. I agree that if it’s more research focused it obviously makes more sense to have this distributed

@ryanbrewer idk ive made a concerted effort over the last ~3 years to blur the lines between all of my compute resources so there really is no concept of a box. Whether the front door and actual process run on the same machine is irrelevant to me and seems like a bottleneck.

Have you ever thought to yourself: I really don't want to make this PowerPoint. Good news: ChatGPT can now create and edit presentations directly in PowerPoint. Build, update, understand, and polish presentations directly in PowerPoint while keeping slides editable. Now in beta, we’d love your feedback 👀

ChatGPT for PowerPoint:

@Solaawodiya There's no old version

@ryanbrewer What's the difference between this and the old version of PowerPoint on ChatGPT?

@vibejag 👀👀👀

@ryanbrewer Great! Word? When? That would complete the multiverse!

@OpenAIDevs How tf does this even work

Codex anywhere and everywhere, all the time. Now your Mac doesn’t have to be unlocked for Codex to use your computer. From your phone, Codex can securely use apps on your Mac, even when the screen is off and locked. #locked-use" target="_blank" rel="nofollow noopener">developers.openai.com/codex/app/comp…

@argofowl It's early

@argofowl Chill

So excited to finally share one of the things I've been working on at @OpenAI ! Building this with @ryanbrewer and team has been one the coolest experiences here. This is truly the year of AI for knowledge work. Do give it a try and let us know what you think!