2025-10-29: Some confirmations from OpenAI

OpenAI's Lukasz Kaiser discusses AI's future, dispelling fears of an "AI Winter" and revealing key insights into reasoning, costs, and multimodality.

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🗒️ Lukasz Kaiser

is one of the co-authors of the “Attention is All You Need” paper and has been at OpenAI since June 2021 after leaving Google Brain which he’d joined in October 2013.

Lukasz gave an interview to Jon Hernandez, a Barcelona-based YouTuber and AI enthusiast. There was quite a bit of alpha, and confirmations of many things that had been suspected but not fully confirmed by executives at the firm.

❄️ No Winter

In his opinion, there is not likely to be an AI winter for several reasons:

• still very early in reasoning paradigm

• lots of low hanging fruit and places they could optimize but have skipped over for now

• si…