
Comms @OpenAI. Formerly @ScaleAI @robinhoodapp @wsj. Compulsive list maker, word nerd
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Joined November 2009
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Kathleen Chaykowski retweeted
Introducing GPT-6 Astra: openai.com/index/gpt-6-astra…
Kathleen Chaykowski retweeted
inference numbers published for jalapeno, team did an amazing job openai.com/index/jalapeno-fi…
OpenAI: "Today, we shared the first measured performance results from Jalapeño, OpenAI’s first custom inference chip. On InferenceX, a public benchmark using GPT‑OSS 120B, Jalapeño delivered more peak throughput per kilowatt and lower token latency than the commercial systems in the comparison. It also performed strongly on DeepSeek R1 and Kimi K2, showing that its gains extend across model families."
"This is Jevons paradox: greater efficiency makes more uses worthwhile, expanding consumption and creating new economic activity through more work completed, better decisions, more products launched, and more revenue generated."
"AI played a direct role in Jalapeño’s development, enabling the team to move from initial design to tapeout in nine months by exploring implementations, shortening design, measurement, and verification loops, and continuously iterating on model workloads. AI also helped optimize the chip’s arithmetic circuits, allowing the team to fit more compute performance into the chip on schedule."
"We plan to begin deploying Jalapeño within OpenAI’s compute infrastructure by the end of the year. It is the first generation of a multigenerational roadmap: Gen 2 is deep in development, and Gen 3 is taking shape. Each generation will build on what we learn and further advance both efficiency and speed."
"As we prepare for deployment, we are continuing production qualification, maturing the software, preparing to operate Jalapeño at scale, and validating performance across more models."
GPT-Live can listen while it speaks.
To make that feel natural at ChatGPT scale, we rebuilt the voice stack from client to model.
This new architecture keeps audio flowing continuously, so deeper reasoning and tool use don't interrupt the conversation.
Kathleen Chaykowski retweeted
We kept ourselves busy with GPT-5.6 Sol. It's pretty good at things.
Rolling out
- 80% lower prices on Luna
- 20% lower prices on Terra
- faster speeds on GPT-5.6 Sol in /fast mode
- ~ 10X cheaper auto-approve mode ("review for me" in the app), which now uses Luna to prevent many high risk actions from the main agent
Towards intelligence too cheap to meter and many more breakthroughs ahead.
We are committed to pushing the model frontier across cost efficiency, capability, and speed.
Starting today, we are reducing prices for GPT-5.6 Luna by 80% and GPT-5.6 Terra by 20% , and offering a faster option for GPT-5.6 Sol in the API.
Luna and Terra’s lower prices are reflected in how usage is counted in Codex and ChatGPT Work, so your usage goes further.
Kathleen Chaykowski retweeted
Efficiency!
In two steps
a) Train fantastic model
b) Use fantastic model to make everything better, including its own infrastructure, inference stack, kernels, etc, etc
openai.com/index/gpt-5-6-fro…
After deployment, we applied GPT-5.6 Sol to advance the frontier of efficiency by making itself more efficient to run.
The results:
- 20% lower serving costs from production GPU kernel improvements.
- 15%+ better token-generation efficiency from improved speculative decoding.
10,000 reasons people love GPT-5.6 Sol
switch-to-codex.openai.chatg…
Or… what if we gave you $100 in Codex credits if you tell us what you love about GPT-5.6 Sol or why you switched?
Tweet it, claim your gift, enjoy more usage. First 10k get the free tokens!
switch-to-codex.openai.chatg…
Kathleen Chaykowski retweeted
As we reach 7M, consider that it took just a few months for the rest of OpenAI employees to catch up to research & engineering in terms of Codex usage. Interesting to see how quickly this happens in other orgs moving from technical to less technical roles.
Kathleen Chaykowski retweeted
Applications to attend OpenAI DevDay 2026 are open.
Join us in San Francisco on September 29 to:
• Tinker with what’s new
• Swap build notes with other builders
• Go deep in technical sessions
• Bring your sharpest questions
Apply by July 10:
devday.openai.com/
Kathleen Chaykowski retweeted
🖲️ We love our community! To celebrate getting together with many of you we brought @thsottiaux's reset button to AIE World's Fair.
Congrats Melanie for pushing the button 🎉
All Codex Go/Plus/Pro subscribers around the world are receiving a reset in the bank! Happy Codexing!
Kathleen Chaykowski retweeted
Make your way to the OpenAI booth now if you’re at @aiDotEngineer! 🚨
At 1pm, you’ll get to see the Codex reset button in action.
Rumor has it it’s headed back into a top-secret underground vault after today. 🤫
Kathleen Chaykowski retweeted
⚙️ We debugged a year’s worth of crashes in our data infrastructure and found one issue in the hardware and another that has been unnoticed in open-source code for 18 years.
Here’s how we tracked them down:
openai.com/index/core-dump-e…
Kathleen Chaykowski retweeted
As agents take on longer-running work, engineering shifts to setting direction, reviewing work, and designing better systems around the models.
@steipete at @aiDotEngineer
Kathleen Chaykowski retweeted
Backstage at @aiDotEngineer! The energy here is incredible.
Excited to kick off the opening keynote with @embirico in a few minutes.
We might even be joined by a special guest… 👀
Kathleen Chaykowski retweeted
How OpenAI Built Its Data Agent
Most teams building data agents stack routers, fine-tunes, and complex retrieval pipelines on top of multiple LLMs. OpenAI didn't.
Their data agent runs on a single model and only 13 tools, across 1.5 exabytes and 90,000 tables. It's "pretty vanilla" by design.
We spoke with Emma Tang, Head of Data Platform Engineering at OpenAI, to better understand the architecture and the engineering decisions behind it.
The article covers:
- The architecture behind the data agent
- The six layers of context that make a single LLM reliable across 90,000 tables
- How OpenAI Uses Codex Internally: 3 Use Cases
- Five practical lessons for any team building a domain agent
- Where OpenAI's data platform is headed next
Kathleen Chaykowski retweeted
To bring Codex to Windows, we had to answer a hard question: how do you let coding agents stay useful without forcing developers to choose between constant approval prompts and full machine access?
Here’s how we built the Windows sandbox for Codex:
openai.com/index/building-co…
Kathleen Chaykowski retweeted
Multipath Reliable Connection (MRC): a new open networking protocol for large AI training clusters, deployed in production on our largest training clusters.
We’ve partnered with @AMD, @Broadcom, @Intel, @Microsoft, and @NVIDIA, to release Multipath Reliable Connection (MRC), a new open networking protocol that helps large AI training clusters run faster and more reliably, with less wasted GPU time.
openai.com/index/mrc-superco…
Kathleen Chaykowski retweeted
There is a lot of news about compute being the bottleneck for AI. There is less visibility into the engineering it takes to make large-scale compute actually work reliably.
In my view, this is one of the most interesting computer science problems in the industry right now. It is not just about getting more GPUs. It is about making every layer of the system work: networking, scheduling, hardware health, storage, orchestration, reliability, observability, security, and the developer experience for researchers.
This blog gives a rare preview into the depth of engineering happening across the stack at OpenAI, starting with MRC and supercomputer networking. We're excited to start sharing more about designing, building, and operating compute at planet scale.
openai.com/index/mrc-superco…
Join us: openai.com/careers/software-…
AI supercomputers need a new kind of network to stay in sync at massive scale.
OpenAI’s @markjhandley and @poyntingatgreg join @AndrewMayne to discuss what it takes to move data across record numbers of chips reliably and efficiently, the new Multipath Reliable Connection (MRC) networking protocol, and why it's available for the whole industry to use.

























