About this episode

Olivier Godement discusses AI adoption in enterprises and the impact of OpenAI's products on automation and development timelines.

This episode features Olivier Godement, Head of Product for Business Products at OpenAI, discussing the current state and future of AI adoption in enterprises, with a particular focus on the recent releases of GPT 5.1 and Codex. The conversation explores how these models are achieving meaningful automation in specific domains like coding, customer support, and life sciences: where companies like Amgen are using AI to accelerate drug development timelines from months to weeks through automated regulatory documentation. Olivier reveals that while complete job automation remains challenging and requires substantial scaffolding, harnesses, and evaluation frameworks, certain use cases like coding are reaching a tipping point where engineers would "riot" if AI tools were taken away. The discussion covers the importance of cost reduction in unlocking new use cases, the emerging significance of reinforcement fine-tuning (RFT) for frontier customers, and OpenAI's philosophy of providing not just models but reference architectures and harnesses to maximize developer success.

People in this episode

Host: Jacob Effron

Guest: Olivier Godement

Topics covered

• AI adoption
• enterprise technology
• automation
• coding
• customer support
• drug development
• reinforcement fine-tuning

Keywords

• AI
• automation
• OpenAI
• GPT 5.1
• Codex
• enterprise
• coding
• drug development
• reinforcement fine-tuning

Mentioned in this episode

Organizations: OpenAI, Amgen

Products: GPT 5.1, Codex

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