This is actually an interesting space, and I think there's a room for such products. Large companies struggle a lot with their knowledge bases, and discoverability is part of the problem (especially when using multiple tools: Confluence, Docs, Chat app, etc.)
The problem here is that there are companies that focus on this area and keep improving their products, while for OpenAI it's one of dozens of tools they launch, so it's hard to believe they'll keep dedicating adequate resources to make this a mature tool that's worth the investment (in form of time and money) for the clients
This feature is actually useful and M365 Copilot Enterprise already has this for a while. It is actually quite useful because it basically has access to all public (“public” as in: accessible to any employee) information in a company - on Sharepoint - plus your own mailbox. It helps finding information I otherwise couldn’t have found easily with the company-wide search functionality.
It's more like a chorus of skeptics, nay-sayers, Luddites, conspiracy nuts, doomsday predictors, arm-chair philosophers, self-proclaimed experts, etc. mixed with all of AI fan boys. The signal to noise ratio in these threads is pretty terrible these days. It's just a lot of people shouting their opinion blindly to fuel their own vanity and egos. And then you get meta discussions like this as well.
Objectively, this OpenAI press release is announcing something that I might actually spend company money on. Finding out about such things is why I read HN. A lot of my AI chats are about copy pasting bits of information into a chat just to create enough of a context so that I can get some meaningful answer. The whole groundhog day of "who are you and what are you trying to do" is very frustrating. Anything addressing that is probably useful to me. And this sounds exactly like it would help me.
OpenAI is big enough and this announcement interesting enough that it probably warrants being on the front page more than whatever opinionated brainfart of some self proclaimed AI expert (positive / negative) competing for the same space there. There's a lot of drivel getting upvoted lately that probably could be labeled as "opinionated drivel" and unceremoniously and aggressively filtered by our dearly beloved HN moderators and editors. But this isn't one of those things IMHO. And in fairness, there just is a lot of substantial day to day news as well.
There are hundreds of those startups. Ever since ChatGPT was released people started to think about what to put in the context. Since finetuning frontier models is out of the question, this is the only thing you can feasibly do.
Now do this for 300+ employees constantly. It's not sustainable.
We need scoped MCPs before any of this is viable.
The receiving end needs a setting that "user X's ChatGPT MCP can access directories [x,y,z] in Google Drive. This wouldn't require any changes to the MCP protocol in general.
OR the whole spec must be changed so that when an MCP is connecting, there is a negotiation about the scope (select which directories are shared) AND that list is checked on the receiving end against a whitelist of allowed directories.
AI boyfriends/girlfriends are a serious thing (and when GPT-5 was released, people were complaining that this AI is much worse suited for this purpose). If you combine it with realistic human-size puppets, this might get big.
But how do people ignore that it's a machine simulating having feelings for you? Is it like the steak in The Matrix?
I played with Sony's Aibo robot dog once, if you hold out your hand in front of it, it can pretend to eat off your hand. After a few tries, it did so, and I thought "How cute!". Then I realized it was just image recognition and logic that instructed some actuators to do certain things..
Perhaps VR goggles and AI that analyses the video and activates the actuators and pumps in sync with whatever is happening in the video would also work.. or oh, geez, why not realtime generated videos?
Porn is always a safe bet, and I'd give them thumbs up if the crap finally disappears from the public space and we can go back to doing the actually innovative stuff.
The problem with porn is post-nut clarity. No one will choose to pay AI companies $x/month if users regret their purchase after releasing their pent-up energy.
> The problem with porn is post-nut clarity. No one will choose to pay AI companies $x/month if users regret their purchase after releasing their pent-up energy[.]
In a brothel (a market that AI-powered sex dolls might partly disrupt), customers don't get their money back if they regret their "purchase" after releasing their pent-up energy.
> In a brothel (a market that AI-powered sex dolls might partly disrupt)
Would it disrupt the brothel? I'm inexperienced in the field, but I'm pretty sure in a proper establishment I'd rather go with a real human rather than an AI-powered sex doll, no matter the cost.
But what do I know, human sexuality is very diverse.
in a brothel they actually mate with human beings -- completing the actual act, even if mechanical and compensated.
chatbots will never do that. it's like eating an image of bread vs. eating stale bread -- yeah it's not the good, ideal fresh bread, but it's actual bread.
So actually I did not care about online porn. Was referring to actually the whole non-innovation of generative AI finally finding its niche in the very profitable sex-market and disappearing from other domains.
I am not sure - online porn satisfies a market demand, and it's not like it is absolutely everywhere - you have to deliberately search for it. The so-called AI is omnipresent, but its not clear what actual problem it is solving, unless we count helping the Joe Bullshit in performing his bullshit job.
> Wow. ChatGPT's 1-month product retention curve (US only data surveyed across 28mn people). From <60% 2yrs ago to 90%. The most irresistible product ever created in the history of tech.
This is a fishing expedition for even more data... I don't know if you want everything people connect to this available for people to use LLMs to surface.
At present though, I get the sense that reinforcement learning at scale is the current battleground (and has been for most of 2025). But we also see over time, the general models adopt the skills taught to the specialized models. Look at how the learning that made codex-1 went into GPT5.
Should we assume "GPT-5" still just means the LLM? It could mean 'GPT-5 the system' which means the model has RAG, tools to use it, and maybe fine-tuned to call those tools.
Lots of people missing the importance of this. This is a critical piece for a clearly larger play that will challenge many startups when combined with agents + just a few more key features (which I won't go into since I'm not consulting for them).
Are embeddings usable for training then? It should be right since that’s what an LLM “sees” anyway. I wonder if that’s what’s going on behind the scenes.
They raised billions of dollars, and they're obviously spending it to develop just about anything they can think of. What's rather concerning for them is that the core AI seems to have pretty much stagnated by now.
Off topic but does anyone know what exactly Sutskever's SSI (mentioned in the article and with a valuation of $32B...) is up to? They have released... well... absolutely nothing in the year+ of existence.
This is a great way to spy on all your company data and give it freely to three letter agencies.
Marxist politicians in companies like France or Spain will demand access to it just like with private messengers for fighting tax fraud, child abuse or whatever pretext they can manufacture to get access to this succulent information they can privately manipulate for making themselves rich, destroying the opposition...
Power concentration is very dangerous. Absolute power corrupts.
The problem here is that there are companies that focus on this area and keep improving their products, while for OpenAI it's one of dozens of tools they launch, so it's hard to believe they'll keep dedicating adequate resources to make this a mature tool that's worth the investment (in form of time and money) for the clients