How OpenAI Is Rewriting Its Future

Описание: This week, OpenAI announced a loosened partnership with Microsoft and an aggressive new strategy to secure computing power. We unpack what these updates signal about OpenAI’s business strategy and whether the company can scale while balancing a trial against Elon Musk and investor concerns over missed financial targets. Then, the A.I. researcher Dr. Adam Rodman, of Harvard Medical School, returns to tell us about the most significant ways A.I. is changing how doctors treat patients. And finally, can an LLM trained only on very old texts predict the future? We’re talking with one of the creators of the chatbot talkie.

00:00 Intro
00:30 OpenAI's strategic pivot
01:15 Loosened partnership with Microsoft
04:30 Expansion of Amazon deal
07:36 Shifts in Project Stargate and data centers
14:58 Trial between Elon Musk and OpenAI
22:54 A.I. in medicine (with Dr. Adam Rodman)
49:26 Talkie, an LLM trained on pre-1930s data (with David Duvenaud)

Guests:
Dr. Adam Rodman, internal medicine physician at Beth Israel Deaconess Medical Center and assistant professor at Harvard Medical School.

David Duvenaud, associate professor at the University of Toronto, former team lead at Anthropic and co-creator of talkie.

Additional Reading:
Microsoft and OpenAI Loosen Their Partnership https://www.nytimes.com/2026/04/27/te...

Elon Musk and Sam Altman’s Epic Fight Heads to Court
https://www.nytimes.com/2026/04/23/te...

OpenAI Misses Key Revenue, User Targets in High-Stakes Sprint Toward IPO
https://www.wsj.com/tech/ai/openai-mi...

Take It From a Doctor: It’s OK if Your Medical Advice Comes From A.I.
https://www.nytimes.com/2026/02/17/op...

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