Thibault Sottiaux
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Thibault “Tibo” Sottiaux is a Belgian software engineer and product executive at OpenAI, where he leads the company’s core product and platform organization. He previously led Codex, OpenAI’s AI coding agent, and is known for work on ChatGPT and Codex.
What Thibault Sottiaux has said on podcasts
9 statements
OpenAI will rapidly expand ChatGPT sign-in partnerships.
“I'm excited to grow that very quickly.”
Open the episode · OpenAI’s Head of ChatGPT: We’re entering a new era of AI (again) | Tibo SottiauxListen at 12:32
ChatGPT plugin infrastructure may provide distribution to approximately 1.2 billion users.
“allowing, you know, everyone to ship something to like maybe 1.2 billion users”
Open the episode · OpenAI’s Head of ChatGPT: We’re entering a new era of AI (again) | Tibo SottiauxListen at 12:42
Popular, heavily used ChatGPT plugins will receive a share of revenue.
“they're going to get part of like the, the revenue share as well”
Open the episode · OpenAI’s Head of ChatGPT: We’re entering a new era of AI (again) | Tibo SottiauxListen at 13:01
OpenAI’s commitment to an open ChatGPT ecosystem will be highly valuable or exciting.
“this commitment towards an open ecosystem is going to be very exciting.”
Open the episode · OpenAI’s Head of ChatGPT: We’re entering a new era of AI (again) | Tibo SottiauxListen at 13:04
ChatGPT recommends plugins based on retention, success, and quality.
“we look at retention numbers. We look at how successful the plugin, the quality, and then that's what we then start to recommend to users in conversations.”
Open the episode · OpenAI’s Head of ChatGPT: We’re entering a new era of AI (again) | Tibo SottiauxListen at 13:57
Low-quality plugins will lose ChatGPT recommendation exposure.
“if your plugin is not quite good, it will stop being recommended.”
Open the episode · OpenAI’s Head of ChatGPT: We’re entering a new era of AI (again) | Tibo SottiauxListen at 14:11
Plugin utility is evaluated by whether it enables additional ChatGPT functionality.
“Is it, is it actually adding utility? Is it, you know, enabling ChatGPT to do something else?”
Open the episode · OpenAI’s Head of ChatGPT: We’re entering a new era of AI (again) | Tibo SottiauxListen at 14:19
The current ChatGPT app marketplace is the correct approach.
“this one is the right one.”
Open the episode · OpenAI’s Head of ChatGPT: We’re entering a new era of AI (again) | Tibo SottiauxListen at 14:37
The current ChatGPT app marketplace will succeed.
“This one's going to work.”
Open the episode · OpenAI’s Head of ChatGPT: We’re entering a new era of AI (again) | Tibo SottiauxListen at 14:39
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4 episodes featuring Thibault Sottiaux
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OpenAI bets persistent agents will reshape the internet
The shift from chatbots to agents that remember goals and act across services could remake software, work, and the economics of the web.
Oct 4, 2026 · 37 min
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OpenAI bets proactive agents will remake everyday computing
The episode captures a pivotal product shift as AI moves from answering prompts toward acting across software, devices, organizations, and creative work.
Sep 29, 2026 · 2h 6m
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AI pushes biosecurity, devices and platform accountability into focus
The episode connects emerging AI capabilities to questions about biological risk, consumer technology, education, corporate strategy and social-media regulation.
Aug 8, 2026 · 33 min
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AI’s next battlegrounds span biology, coding and commerce
The episode connects frontier research, enterprise AI economics and live-commerce scale to the practical choices shaping technology’s next phase.
Aug 7, 2026 · 1h 49m