?The world seems to be ready’: An interview with OpenAI head

Aug 25, 2026 - 17:34
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‘The world seems to be ready’: An interview with OpenAI head of product Thibault Sottiaux
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  • Back TechCrunch: I know you’re a member of the technical staff. Is it right to say that you’re the product lead for Codex and Work? Sot
  • Q: Am I right in thinking you report to Greg Brockman? Sottiaux: Yeah, Greg. I like to say that everyone reports to Greg at the end of
  • Q: Why is ChatGPT Work so important to OpenAI? Sottiaux: We wanted to bring the power of coding agents to everyone, and so this is an e

Back TechCrunch: I know you’re a member of the technical staff. Is it right to say that you’re the product lead for Codex and Work? Sottiaux: I lead all of core products—that is API, agent infrastructure, enterprise, all of ChatGPT, which includes ChatGPT Work, but also ChatGPT classic, and then everything that is Codex as well.

And this is also part of iterative deployment of these capabilities. It’s learning from the community, learning from real use, and then continuously improving it. TC: There’s a big gap between what I’m paying on the Plus plan and the amount of tokens I’m using.

How do you think that plays out? Should I be worried about that? Should CFOs be worried about that?

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TC: What do you say to someone who is stressed out about giving it access to their e-mail, giving it access to iMessages , which you just rolled out today? When you purchase through links in our articles, we may earn a small commission . This doesn’t affect our editorial independence.

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