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

In this interview podcast, Apoorv Agrawal speaks with Sherwin Wu, Head of Engineering, and Olivier Godement, Head of Product at OpenAI Platform, about OpenAI's enterprise solutions. They discuss the OpenAI platform's mission to distribute AGI benefits through B2B applications, highlighting customer examples like T-Mobile, Amgen, and Los Alamos National Labs, detailing how OpenAI's models and forward-deployed engineers are transforming industries like telecommunications, healthcare, and national security research. They explore the challenges and keys to successful AI deployments, the advancements in GPT-5, multimodal models, and model customization through reinforcement fine-tuning. The conversation also covers their perspectives on the future of AI, including long and short bets on various sectors, underrated AI tools, the evolving role of software engineers, and advice for students entering the field.