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Steven Heidel
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API @OpenAI | 🏳️‍🌈 he/him
I’m hiring for the API Frontiers team at OpenAI! We take the latest breakthroughs from research and turn them into developer products - designing APIs that feel natural, powerful, and scale to billions of users.
November 12, 2025 at 9:15 PM
exciting to see my current and former employers working together to scale AI compute!
November 3, 2025 at 7:26 PM
seems like a good day to remind everyone of the temporary chat button in ChatGPT, which will disable memory and remove the conversation from your history
October 14, 2025 at 8:02 PM
another successful DevDay in the books. thanks to everyone who attended and also to our incredible events team - it was our biggest one yet!
October 8, 2025 at 11:35 PM
for every step forward the US takes in AI, we take two steps backwards somewhere else. this week it's destroying a perfectly good satellite and canceling funding to one of the most promising technologies for beating cancer
August 6, 2025 at 5:34 PM
Trump's war on numbers continues: after firing the head of labor statistics he's now cut funding to one of America's greatest mathematicians
August 3, 2025 at 7:21 PM
introducing ChatGPT Agent: available to Pro users today, and to Plus and Team users by the end of the week
July 17, 2025 at 6:03 PM
walking into a gay bar
July 13, 2025 at 5:36 AM
July 2, 2025 at 5:47 PM
celebrating a decade since the supreme court legalized gay marriage in the US!
June 27, 2025 at 4:07 AM
“I’m also from San Fran”
June 22, 2025 at 7:27 PM
lots of excitement for MCP in Paris this week!
June 12, 2025 at 8:17 PM
turns out straight men can’t love each other that much
June 5, 2025 at 9:50 PM
happy pride!
June 2, 2025 at 8:45 PM
you're now just one API call away from connecting with hundreds, and soon thousands, of tools across the web
May 23, 2025 at 5:21 PM
structured outputs in the API just got even more structured! platform.openai.com/docs/guides/...
May 20, 2025 at 8:48 PM
google has achieved state of the art in another benchmark
May 20, 2025 at 7:44 PM
the new 2.5 Flash evals are seriously impressive - congrats to the Gemini team!
May 20, 2025 at 7:29 PM
if i wanted China or Europe to win the AI race, i'd do exactly what this administration is doing now:
- deny entry to top AI researchers
- deport international students
- create investment uncertainty
- get rid of the CHIPS act
- cut funding to the NSF
April 25, 2025 at 5:45 PM
immigration makes america strong. we should not be denying entry to brilliant AI researchers like Kai
April 25, 2025 at 3:55 PM
the latest image generation model is now available in the OpenAI API! each image costs just cents to create
April 23, 2025 at 5:35 PM
voting time! 🇨🇦
April 17, 2025 at 4:59 PM
o3 for secretary of health and human services
April 16, 2025 at 10:26 PM
o3 for president
April 16, 2025 at 10:05 PM
just 3 days ago our flagship models were all different. now developers have access to our best non-reasoning model (gpt-4.1) and our best reasoning models (o3 and o4-mini)
April 16, 2025 at 6:58 PM