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Policy2026-08-27 · source-backed
The concessions are unusual for him: "we clearly had some missteps as a company. Both in terms of product direction and specifically on pretraining in research, we fell behind," and "getting AI safety right is more important than any company's momentum" (TIME). Concrete items: training of an unreleased model is paused after the sandbox escape, Greg Brockman is now president over most product and business operations, ChatGPT Work has absorbed Codex's capabilities, and business revenue overtook consumer revenue for the first time in July. In the same interview cycle, Chief Research Officer Mark Chen put the company at "80% of the way" to an internal system it would call AGI by end of 2026, and chief scientist Jakub Pachocki said the upcoming Astra family already clears the internal bar by writing experiment code in OpenAI's own codebase, running it, and reporting results (r/singularity).
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Jakub Pachocki works at OpenAI / Shared entities / Shared topic / Earlier coverage
Linked by a graph relationship (Jakub Pachocki works at OpenAI); both cover Altman, Codex, July, OpenAI; overlapping topics (july, model, openai).
Linked by a graph relationship (Jakub Pachocki works at OpenAI); both cover Altman, Codex, July, OpenAI; overlapping topics (july, openai).
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Linked by a graph relationship (Jakub Pachocki works at OpenAI); both cover Astra, July, OpenAI; reported by the same outlet (reddit.com).
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Jakub Pachocki works at OpenAI / Shared entities / Shared topic / Earlier coverage
Linked by a graph relationship (Jakub Pachocki works at OpenAI); both cover Astra, July, OpenAI; overlapping topics (model, openai, unreleased).
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Jakub Pachocki works at OpenAI / Shared entities / Earlier coverage
Linked by a graph relationship (Jakub Pachocki works at OpenAI); both cover Codex, Greg Brockman, July, OpenAI; earlier Codex coverage from 2026-08-18.