Open Source bi-weekly convo w/ Bill Gurley and Brad Gerstner on all things tech, markets, investing & capitalism. This week, guest host Altimeter’s Apoorv Agrawal explores how OpenAI is reshaping enterprise with Sherwin Wu, Head of Engineering OpenAI Platform, and Olivier Godement, Head of Product OpenAI Platform. From T-Mobile’s AI voice support to Amgen’s drug breakthroughs to Los Alamos’ air-gapped supercomputer—this episode dives into the real world of AI at scale. Enjoy another episode of BG2!
Timestamps:
(00:00) Intro
(01:50) OpenAI’s Enterprise Mission: Beyond ChatGPT
(06:00) Case Study: T-Mobile <> Voice & Support
(11:30) Case Study: Amgen <> Accelerating Drug Development
(13:45) Case Study: Los Alamos National Lab
(17:00) Why 95% of AI Deployments Fail?
(20:30) Physical vs Digital Autonomy: Scaffolding & Infrastructure
(26:00) GPT-5: Release, Benchmarks vs Behavior
(30:00) GPT-5 Feedback: Instruction Following, Hallucinations, Code Quality
(33:00) Multimodality: Text, Voice, and Video
(35:30) Audio: Realtime API vs Stitched Audio
(38:00) Model Customization & Reinforcement Fine-Tuning (RFT)
(43:00) Rapid Fire: Long/Short Picks
(1:03:00) Highlights and Lowlights @ OpenAI
Show Notes:
T-Mobile Partnership: https://www.t-mobile.com/news/business/t-mobile-launches-intentcx-with-openai
Amgen Partnership: https://openai.com/index/gpt-5-amgen/
Los Alamos Partnership: https://www.lanl.gov/media/news/0130-open-ai
MIT AI Report: https://mlq.ai/media/quarterly_decks/v0.1_State_of_AI_in_Business_2025_Report.pdf
Produced by Dan Shevchuk
Music by Yung Spielberg
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