Azeem Azhar's Exponential View
Jun 10, 2025 · 54 min · 14 segments
This week, I'm speaking with Kevin Weil, Chief Product Officer at OpenAI, who is steering product development at what might be the world's most important company right now. We talk about: (00:00)…
Azeem AzharHostThe biggest thing that we launched this morning, we launched like six different things this morning, but I think the most important one kind of for the long-term future of AI is we launched a series of connectors that can connect to your either personal data or if you're an enterprise, your enterprise data.
So this is connectors into Google Docs, to Gmail and Calendar, to SharePoint, to OneDrive, Dropbox, Box, Linear, all of these different tools that you use every day to get things done.
With the rise of our reasoning models, connecting them into the services and the data that you use helps the models be way more useful.
So it's not just that you can now ask at work, for example, if you're Google Docs or SharePoint, you connect it into the docs that you use every day.
Suddenly, ChatGPT can get all of this context on the enterprise and on the state of projects and on the latest about any particular thing that's going on.
You wouldn't ever have an employee at your company that you didn't give access to docs.
It's like where the conversation and the strategy and other things are happening.
And today they're read-only, so they're able to access the information but not create on the other end.
But you can imagine going forward, another big part of this is that ChatGPT should be able to take actions, should be able to help you write a document.
or create a presentation or write tasks to your task management system and ultimately combine all of these together to begin really working like an employee.
the hint, right? That direction of moving ChatGPT from something we interact with a challenge and response into something that is more evolved and feels like it's really doing work for us.
You're the chief product officer of what I think is the most important company in the world today.
And I've been very fortunate in my career to work at a bunch of awesome places with really great co-workers.
But I think The opportunity in front of us, the rate at which AI is changing all of our lives means we have an ability to make a really big impact and we take that super seriously.
The biggest thing that we launched this morning, we launched like six different things this morning, but I think the most important one kind of for the long-term future of AI is we launched a series of connectors that can connect to your either personal data or if you're an enterprise, your enterprise data.
So this is connectors into Google Docs, to Gmail and Calendar, to SharePoint, to OneDrive, Dropbox, Box, Linear, all of these different tools that you use every day to get things done.
With the rise of our reasoning models, connecting them into the services and the data that you use helps the models be way more useful.
So it's not just that you can now ask at work, for example, if you're Google Docs or SharePoint, you connect it into the docs that you use every day.
Suddenly, ChatGPT can get all of this context on the enterprise and on the state of projects and on the latest about any particular thing that's going on.
You wouldn't ever have an employee at your company that you didn't give access to docs.
It's like where the conversation and the strategy and other things are happening.
And today they're read-only, so they're able to access the information but not create on the other end.
But you can imagine going forward, another big part of this is that ChatGPT should be able to take actions, should be able to help you write a document.
or create a presentation or write tasks to your task management system and ultimately combine all of these together to begin really working like an employee.
the hint, right? That direction of moving ChatGPT from something we interact with a challenge and response into something that is more evolved and feels like it's really doing work for us.
You're the chief product officer of what I think is the most important company in the world today.
And I've been very fortunate in my career to work at a bunch of awesome places with really great co-workers.
But I think The opportunity in front of us, the rate at which AI is changing all of our lives means we have an ability to make a really big impact and we take that super seriously.
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