Inside OpenAI Enterprise: Forward Deployed Engineering, GPT-5, and More | BG2 Guest Interview

Inside OpenAI Enterprise: Forward Deployed Engineering, GPT-5, and More | BG2 Guest Interview

From BG2Pod with Brad Gerstner and Bill Gurley by BG2Pod

September 11, 2025 · 1h 9m

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The episode explores how OpenAI is transforming enterprise applications through various case studies and insights from industry leaders.

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)…

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