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Greg Brockman Says Security Spend Should Vastly Outstrip Software Spend. Here Is OpenAI’s 25% Security Sprint.

Greg Brockman explains how OpenAI moved 25% of its production engineers to security and ran its best model on its own code until it found nothing new.

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Ruben Dominguez
Nov 09, 2026
A walled hilltop city ringed by scaffolding and construction cranes floats on a sea of golden clouds beneath the OpenAI logo.

25% of OpenAI’s production engineers got 1 order: every project is on hold, and your only job is securing the company.

Then OpenAI aimed its peak-intelligence model at its own infrastructure and kept it running until the model stopped turning up bugs.

Greg Brockman, OpenAI’s co-founder and president, walked through that sprint on the No Priors podcast. He…

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