Zack Kass
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2,920 appearances
4 recordings
4 series
first heard Jan 2026
last heard 5 Jul
Zack Kass’s voice in public audio — every appearance, attributed to the second.
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And for a long time, if you emailed sales at openai.com or support at openai.com, you just wind up in my inbox.
And it was only in the week that we launched the GPT-3 API.
So I was there for zero revenue.
And it was fun to watch people start to trickle in.
And it was mostly researchers, other researchers trying to explore the thing.
And it worked.
It was expensive.
It wasn't very good.
It was very slow, but it worked.
And it became very clear to me quickly that this was going to be awesome.
And then the question was simply when, and we toiled for the next year to convince people that it mattered because it didn't, it wasn't economically viable.
It didn't change anyone's life.
And it was during that time that I wrote a paper called, um,
the theory of unmetered intelligence, which proposed that at some point intelligence would get so abundant and so cheap that it would actually behave more like a resource.
And that we were now on that new cost curve slide, which I think we are.
And that paper ended up being a pretty critical backbone to my book.
But it wasn't until we launched GPT-3.5 in May 2022 that people got really excited, at least internally, because that model was way better than GPT-3 and it was faster and it was cheaper somehow.
So we now had solved what we thought was all the market's problems.
We had this API that was awesome in all these ways that everyone said they needed it to be awesome.
And revenue ticked up from like 10 million to 15 million.
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