Alex Embiricos

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1,288 appearances 2 recordings 2 series first heard Feb 2026 last heard 21 Feb

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The Twenty Minute VC (20VC): Venture Capital | Startup Funding | The Pitch · 20VC: Codex vs Claude Code vs Cursor: Who Wins, Who Loses | Will All Coding Be Automated - Do We Need PMs | The Real Bottleneck to AGI | The Three Phases of Agents and What You Need to Know with Alex Embiricos, Head of Codex at OpenAI · 21 Feb 2026 podcast

You have much more intuition for how this works.

And I would argue you feel much more empowered about this idea that it's being accelerated.

And you have some degree of control to steer where these automations are built, as opposed to it's like this complete ex machina kind of thing that is quite disempowering.

So bringing this back, I think there is a way to do this, because the data control issues you mentioned are real.

But at the end of the day, every tool, every feature, every workflow is for a human who is somewhere, an employee somewhere.

And that employee is accessing that tooling via their browser or via their file system, like at the end of the day.

And so at the end of the day, everything comes to an interface that an agent running locally on your computer can work with.

And I think it's quite unusual.

At OpenAI, we're building a browser, Atlas.

And you might wonder why.

And there are many reasons why.

But I think one of the key reasons is that by building a browser and by controlling it tightly end-to-end, we can build safe, agentic browsing for enterprise that is a way to access things agentically that are otherwise not yet built out by FDEs.

I mean, the simple answer is it's super important.

Is it like an inference monopoly?

You have it now and competitors don't.

This is just my opinion, but I don't think we're going to end up in this kind of monopolistic world.

I think there's so much competitive pressure that there'll be multiple answers to this.

But I will say that we have news coming out about that partnership soon, and I'm very excited for these kinds of things to ship.

It's going to be awesome.

But even so, with GPT-5.3 codecs, that model is significantly more efficient than prior models.

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