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BG2 PodInside OpenAI Enterprise: Forward Deployed Engineering, GPT-5, and More | BG2 Guest Interview
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EPISODE INFO
- Released
- September 11, 2025
- Duration
- 1h 8m
- Channel
- BG2 Pod
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EPISODE DESCRIPTION
Open Source bi-weekly convo w/ Bill Gurley and Brad Gerstner on all things tech, markets, investing & capitalism. This week, guest host Altimeter’s Apoorv Agrawal explores how OpenAI is reshaping enterprise with Sherwin Wu, Head of Engineering OpenAI Platform, and Olivier Godement, Head of Product OpenAI Platform. From T-Mobile’s AI voice support to Amgen’s drug breakthroughs to Los Alamos’ air-gapped supercomputer—this episode dives into the real world of AI at scale. Enjoy another episode of BG2! Timestamps: (00:00) Intro (01:50) OpenAI’s Enterprise Mission: Beyond ChatGPT (06:00) Case Study: T-Mobile - Voice & Support (11:30) Case Study: Amgen - Accelerating Drug Development (13:45) Case Study: Los Alamos National Lab (17:00) Why 95% of AI Deployments Fail? (20:30) Physical vs Digital Autonomy: Scaffolding & Infrastructure (26:00) GPT-5: Release, Benchmarks vs Behavior (30:00) GPT-5 Feedback: Instruction Following, Hallucinations, Code Quality (33:00) Multimodality: Text, Voice, and Video (35:30) Audio: Realtime API vs Stitched Audio (38:00) Model Customization & Reinforcement Fine-Tuning (RFT) (43:00) Rapid Fire: Long/Short Picks (1:03:00) Highlights and Lowlights @ OpenAI Show Notes: T-Mobile Partnership: https://www.t-mobile.com/news/business/t-mobile-launches-intentcx-with-openai Amgen Partnership: https://openai.com/index/gpt-5-amgen/ Los Alamos Partnership: https://www.lanl.gov/media/news/0130-open-ai MIT AI Report: https://mlq.ai/media/quarterly_decks/v0.1_State_of_AI_in_Business_2025_Report.pdf Produced by Dan Shevchuk Music by Yung Spielberg Available on Apple, Spotify, www.bg2pod.com Follow: Brad Gerstner @altcap https://x.com/altcap Bill Gurley @bgurley https://x.com/bgurley BG2 Pod @bg2pod https://x.com/BG2Pod Apoorv Agrawal @apoorv03 https://x.com/apoorv03 Sherwin Wu @sherwinwu https://x.com/sherwinwu Olivier Godement @oliviergodement https://x.com/oliviergodement
SPEAKERS
Sherwin Wu
guestOpenAI Platform engineering leader focused on the API, reliability, and enterprise/forward-deployed deployments.
Apoorv Agrawal
hostHost of the BG2 Pod who interviews guests about OpenAI Enterprise and platform strategy.
Olivier Godement
guestOpenAI Platform product leader working on enterprise deployments, customer feedback loops, and product direction.
EPISODE SUMMARY
In this episode of BG2 Pod, featuring Sherwin Wu and Apoorv Agrawal, Inside OpenAI Enterprise: Forward Deployed Engineering, GPT-5, and More | BG2 Guest Interview explores How OpenAI makes enterprise AI work: deployment craft over demos OpenAI’s platform and enterprise work are presented as central to its mission by enabling developers, enterprises, and governments to embed AI into real-world services beyond ChatGPT.
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