PodcastPioneers of AIOctober 22, 2026
Reid Hoffman and OpenAI CFO Sarah Friar on where AI goes from here
OpenAI is intentionally delaying its most capable model for safety even as adoption gaps between frontier and average firms widen to 8x.
- Scale metrics: ChatGPT reaches 1.2 billion weekly users (a fifth of humanity); OpenAI just hit 100,000 advertisers across 89 countries, with 90% of users on the free tier.
- Cyber risk disclosed: OpenAI secretly worked with PHP maintainers since late summer to patch vulnerabilities (found via an n-1 model) that could have hit ~70% of websites.
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