Fidji Simo

@fidjissimo

CEO of Applications, OpenAI

fidjisimo.com

Joined May 2007

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Fidji Simo
@fidjissimo
Aug 17
I disagree with Dario on most things, but this is spot on: “At this point, saying that AI will cure cancer is more a cliché than it is inspiring, and most people think it is deceptive. The thing that will work is actually curing cancer.” The thing that frustrates me is that some
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Fidji Simo
@fidjissimo
Jul 9
Today, I shared with the OpenAI team that I have decided to leave my full-time role at OpenAI and transition to being a part-time advisor. Three months ago, I had to go on medical leave after a severe exacerbation of a chronic illness I’ve lived with for seven years. During that
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Fidji Simo
@fidjissimo
Jul 9
So powerful to get the magic of Codex inside ChatGPT. We’ve been working on making Chat more agentic for a while, and it’s really awesome to see what people are doing with it now.
OpenAI
@OpenAI
Jul 9
Introducing ChatGPT Work, a new agent in ChatGPT powered by Codex and GPT-5.6. It can take action across your apps and files, stay with a project for hours if needed, and turn a goal into finished work. It’s a whole new way to get work done.
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Fidji Simo
@fidjissimo
Jul 9
CAPABLE gives me a lot of hope. Amazing team, who isn’t afraid to redefine what is now possible when it comes to drug development. Glad to be supporting them.
Isaak
@isaakfreeman
Jul 8
We built the lab that's able to go from AI-led drug design to data in 24h. GPT-8 won't be bottlenecked by intelligence. It needs a biological compute layer. This is Capable. We're turning AI capabilities into human capabilities--starting with short-sleeper peptides.
GIF
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Fidji Simo
@fidjissimo
Jun 24
Incredibly important initiative. We have massively underestimated the criticality of so-called minor viruses in driving chronic illness. From the blog post: “Respiratory infections raise our risk of serious illness, often years later. While researchers are still early in
Nan Ransohoff
@nanransohoff
Jun 24
Today we're launching Intercept: a $500M philanthropic initiative to make respiratory infections, like the common cold and flu, a thing of the past. We treat respiratory infections as a minor nuisance, but that’s really not the case. Most of us will spend 5% of our lives (!)
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