Sam Altman on Zero-Person AI Companies, Sora, AGI Breakthroughs, and more
From Rowan Cheung
In this DevDay 2025 conversation, Sam Altman joins the host to walk through the day's announcements, including Apps in ChatGPT, the Agent Builder, and AgentKit, as ChatGPT reaches 800 million weekly active users. They explore how builders might get discovered through the new Apps SDK, how a no-code agent builder is lowering the barrier to creating sophisticated software, and how rapidly faster iteration could reshape the volume and pace of what gets built. Listeners interested in where AI pla...
Key Takeaways
- ChatGPT at 800M weekly users is becoming the next major distribution platform for builders.
- Agent Builder lets non-coders assemble sophisticated agents in minutes, a no-code shift for software creation.
- Software output is set to explode as the time to test and refine ideas keeps shrinking.
- The first true zero-person billion-dollar company is probably years away, not imminent.
- Codex is inching toward agents that can work a full week unsupervised, a leap people are still processing.
Who is mentioned in this episode?
1 person comes up, including Secret Service Sam.
- Secret Service Sam (Person)
Mentioned in this episode
- OpenAI (Company)
- ChatGPT (Product)
- Agent Kit (Product)
- Apps in ChatGPT (Product)
- Codex (Product)
- GPT builder (Product)
- GDPval benchmark (Concept)
- AGI (Concept)
- Waymo (Company)
- workslop (Concept)
- BCI (Concept)
- WeChat (Product)
- Sora (Product)
- Claude’s Opus model (Product)
- Agent Builder (Product)
- DevDay 2025 (Concept)