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
Are they pushing multiple announcements per day to take the stock market to greater heights? 6 announcements this week alone: https://openai.com/news/
If the products were at least point-free [1] instead of pointless. :-)
(sorry for the nerdy pun)
I hope it isnt "enabled by default" otherwise people will be fired on the spot for doing this.
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's ZERO way our legal team will let us connect ChatGPT to Google Drive for example. ALL of our GDrive.
Specific directories, sure. But there's no way to do it.
let GPT drink it up
obliterate the new namespace until you need to train it again; wash, rinse, repeat
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.
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?
So another GPT-5 fine-tune. Codex also uses a custom GPT-5 fine-tune.
Does fine-tuning make sense now? Or do you have to be OpenAI to fine-tune the models with a mix of existing data and new behaviours?
Look at Tinker for an example of where things might be heading though (https://tinker-docs.thinkingmachines.ai/)
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.
Are embeddings used for RAG considered company data (presumably calculated by OpenAI), or OpenAI’s?
(I don’t know if that’s how RAG actually works)
As I understand it, strictly speaking RAG is broader than what you describe, but in practice you're correct for most implementations: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Retrieval-augmented_generation...
[1]: https://www.reuters.com/technology/openai-tells-investor-not...
They do offer youtube plaques for sacrificing to the token god. I want the trillion token plaque for my downstairs bathroom.
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.
