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S3 Bonus 1: Bret Taylor of Sierra and OpenAI

S3 Bonus 1: Bret Taylor of Sierra and OpenAI

Update: 2026-01-29
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A conversation about the potential and limits of AI agents with the co-founder of Sierra, an agentic customer-service company. Bret Taylor, who is also the chairman of OpenAI, tells Andrew Palmer about the imperfections of the technology, the competition between model-makers and vendors, and how he uses AI to manage.


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S3 Bonus 1: Bret Taylor of Sierra and OpenAI

S3 Bonus 1: Bret Taylor of Sierra and OpenAI