BG2Pod with Brad Gerstner and Bill Gurley

Inside OpenAI Enterprise: Forward Deployed Engineering, GPT-5, and More | BG2 Guest Interview

September 11, 2025 · 1 h 9 min

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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:

() Intro

() OpenAI’s Enterprise Mission: Beyond ChatGPT

() Case Study: T-Mobile <> Voice & Support

() Case Study: Amgen <> Accelerating Drug Development

() Case Study: Los Alamos National Lab

() Why 95% of AI Deployments Fail?

() Physical vs Digital Autonomy: Scaffolding & Infrastructure

() GPT-5: Release, Benchmarks vs Behavior

() GPT-5 Feedback: Instruction Following, Hallucinations, Code Quality

() Multimodality: Text, Voice, and Video

() Audio: Realtime API vs Stitched Audio