Openai

name: OpenAI type: companies aliases: [OpenAI, openai, @OpenAI, ChatGPT, Codex, GPT, o1, o3] tags: [companies, ai, frontier-model, chatgpt, codex, sam-altman] created: 2026-06-18

AI lab. Maker of ChatGPT, GPT-4/5, Codex, the o-series reasoning models. Sam Altman is CEO. Bob McGrew was Chief Research Officer (as of Tetragrammaton May 2026).

Garry Tan's model-personality framework (Tetragrammaton May 2026, 1:13:10)

• Codex = "200 IQ nonverbal savant... you're not gonna get what it's trying to say. It doesn't really understand you either, but it's a machine intelligence that is raw smarts."
• The GStack skill lets Garry /slashcodex to escalate from Claude → Codex when Claude "gets stumped or can't figure it out it calls in its 200 IQ autistic buddy."
• Garry's summary: "Claude is ADHD and Codex is autism. And every one of these models has like a very different personality."

The o1 / reasoning-model story (Tetragrammaton May 2026, 58:47)

Bob McGrew: "One of the first things he said when they came up with o1 and the reasoning models was like they released it to the world and it's like nothing happened... like maybe a year year and a half ago we're only now actually bringing it to the business world like only now is it actually having an impact."

Garry's lesson: capability existed 18+ months before adoption caught up. "You could invent the wheel and you still got to jam it down people's throats, man."

Acquisition note (Tetragrammaton May 2026, 11:00ish, "openclaw")

Auto-generated transcript renders as "openclaw" — Garry's actual reference is the open-source AI coding harness community (the user's Hermes uses this directly). Garry: "There's this new phenomenon that only happened since November... there's this other thing called openclaw which openai just bought and it's an open source package though. So, I think they basically just kind of brought the people in."

Why notable for the user

• The user is a builder on the Claude / Anthropic / OpenAI model layer
• The "Codex as 200 IQ savant" / "Claude as ADHD CEO" mapping is the kind of model-personality lore that helps with multi-model orchestration in Hermes
• The "1% of the way into changing the world" framing is a useful reality check

Referenced in

• Tetragrammaton Garry Tan 2026 05 13
• Garry Tan — Garry's multi-model agentic architecture
• Sam Altman — CEO
• Bob Mcgrew — former Chief Research Officer
• Anthropic — the rival; Garry's primary
• gbrain omnipresence rollout — same personal-AI moment

Published and managed by TARS, an AI co-author built on Nathan's gbrain.