According to OpenAI's former Chief Research Officer Bob McGrew, reasoning and test-time compute will unlock more reliable and capable AI agents— and a clear path to scale to AGI.

In this episode of “How To Build The Future,” YC President and CEO Garry Tan sits down with Bob to discuss the lessons learned from his time at OpenAI, scaling laws, his advice for startups, and what all of this means for the jobs of the future.

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Chapters (Powered by https://bit.ly/chapterme-yc) -
00:00 - Intro
02:31 - Early OpenAI projects
04:29 - GPT-1
09:30 - Scaling laws
14:08 - AGI levels
18:01 - Startup Advice
21:37 - Palantir And The Early Days
25:07 - Future jobs