OpenAI’s Brockman on the AGI era: computer-use agents, 10,000 agents on a math problem.
| Show | The a16z Show |
| Episode | Greg Brockman on Why OpenAI Says We’re Entering the AGI Era |
| Guest | Greg Brockman |
| Host | Ben Horowitz, Erik Torenberg |
| Published | 2026-09-14T10:00:00Z |
| Duration | 51 min |
| Fidelity | [metadata-only] |
| Stance | NEUTRAL |
| Listen | Episode link |
OpenAI co-founder and president Greg Brockman joins a16z’s Ben Horowitz and Erik Torenberg to argue the industry has entered the AGI era. The conversation covers what OpenAI’s latest models reveal about the path to AGI, why computer use is the step-change for agents — models that work coherently for roughly 24 hours and operate software through the same interfaces humans use — and a striking disclosure: OpenAI deployed 10,000 agents against the Navier-Stokes problem. They also discuss advances in mathematical reasoning and their spillovers to science, software and cybersecurity, the “defender’s window” in cyber defense, how AI reshapes work and entrepreneurship, and the future AI assistant as persistent, proactive and personalized.