Kevin Weil ๐บ๐ธ
@kevinweil
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CPO @OpenAI, BoD @nature_org @Planet Federal. Prev: President @Planet, Head of Product @Novi @Instagram @Twitter. โค๏ธ @elizabeth ultramarathons kids cats math
Portola Valley, CA
Joined April 2007
Iโm super excited to announce that Iโm joining @OpenAI as Chief Product Officer!. My entire career has been about working on big missions: connecting people and ideas at @Instagram and @Twitter, digitizing financial services at Libra/Novi, or most recently at @Planet, using space.
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Wild to see the Twitter office on auction. Board room tables, phone booths, chairs, monitors. even the Twitter bird statue. Great memories from a different era.
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Matthew and I were making freestyle Legos. Every time I placed a piece, he'd move it somewhere else. After a while of this:. Me: I don't feel that my contributions are valued. Matthew, 6: Your contributions will be valued when you start making good decisions.
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After 7 incredible years, I'm moving on from Twitter. Next up: @elizabeth, @thirdweil, and some long trail runs. Also, GO TEAM! ๐ชโค.
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Personal news! Iโm beyond excited to be joining @PlanetLabs in the coming weeks as President, Product & Business. Planet builds and operates a constellation of nearly 200 satellites that images the entire Earth every day.
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Conclave of the former Twitter Heads of Product ๐คช
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Launching today: two big updates that make @ChatGPTapp more useful on PC and Mac desktops ๐ฅ ๐ป. First, the ChatGPT desktop app for Windows is now available to all users. Since launching the early version a few months ago, weโve listened to your feedback and added features like.
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Excited to announce 800M users, 500M daily users, and 2M advertisers on Instagram. Honored to be a small part of this team.
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Here we go! After 7 great years at Twitter and 2 ๐ months off, I'm starting today at Instagram as head of product.
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So excited to share what I've been working on for the last year! It's been the most challenging, interesting, and inspiring thing I've ever been a part of. Today is not a launch, but an announcement, and an invitation for the community to participate.
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๐ฅ o3-mini ๐ฅ is small, fast, and really really smart. I can't wait for this launch.
thank you to the external safety researchers who tested o3-mini. we have now finalized a version and are beginning the release process; planning to ship in ~a couple of weeks. also, we heard the feedback: will launch api and chatgpt at the same time!. (it's very good.).
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Day 3 of the 12 days of OpenAI: โจSORAโจ. โข Videos up to 1080p and 20s long, in widescreen, vertical, or square .โข Text to video, image to video, video to video .โข A beautiful storyboarding tool to precisely direct your video creation .โข Featured and Recent feeds so you can
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Introducing Kate Bailey Weil and Alex Charles Weil. They were born on Sep 17 and we couldn't be happier. Three kids 2 or under, here we go!
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We're having twins! @thirdweil was so much fun we decided to have two more at onceโboy and girl coming in September!
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๐ฅ New capabilities in ChatGPT ๐ฅ Now you can schedule things, both one-time and repeating tasks. * Send me the latest AI news at 8am and 5pm each day.* Daily weather, horoscopes, etc.* Schedule some fun with daily Dall-E image generation.* Have ChatGPT send you a personalized
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This is gonna be wild and crazy and a lot of fun. Shipmas is coming!
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Day 12: โจ o3 โจ. o3 is bonkers good, a massive step up from o1 on every one of our hardest benchmarks. It's not ready yet (we're starting safety testing, including with external red teamers) but I'm excited for all of the new products it'll enable when it launches.
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Shipped some improvements to Canvas this past week. Would love to hear your thoughtsโhow are you using Canvas, and what would you like to see it do better?.
When using canvas, you can now see what's changed in your writing and code by selecting the "Show changes" icon. Enjoy!
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One of the most eye opening experiences of my career.
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Day 7 ๐: Projects in ChatGPT!. You can now organize your chats using Projects: upload files, use custom instructions, and tailor ChatGPT for every conversation inside a project. Or, just use Projects as a folder to group related conversations.
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Today we're introducing Canvas, a new way of working with ChatGPT for writing and coding. With Canvas you pair with ChatGPT, creating/editing/refining ideas side by side. It's completely changed my own productivity as we've built and tested it internally. One of my favorite.
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When our son @thirdweil was born nine years ago, he weighed 3.5 lbs and needed emergency surgery to save his life. He spent his first months in the NICU, being fed intravenously. Today, because of the care he received, he's a happy, healthy, lego-programming, sports-loving kid.
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Day 8 ๐: Search in ChatGPT! . Solid improvements to mobile and overall speed, plus you can now search as you talk to ChatGPT with advanced voice mode. But most importantly: search is rolling out globally to all logged in users on every platform! ๐.
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Day 11: โจworking with desktop apps โจ. Our desktop apps ( can now work with apps like Xcode, Warp, Notion, Apple and ~30 more. ChatGPT can see, understand, and automate your work in other appsโa step along the path to a more agentic ChatGPT. And it.
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This week marks 6 years at Twitter for me. Six wonderful, terrifying, amazing years. 2197 daysโand counting!โof working on a product I love.
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What a day yesterday for @planet! Of all the incredible photos and memories, this one @elizabeth sent with the kids watching us ring the bell is probably the one I'll most cherish.
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To all the @Twitter peeps current and former, thank you for the love and the hard work that's made it all possible ๐ #lovewhereyouworked.
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True at OpenAI, true in life ๐.
Biggest lesson from 2 years at OpenAI: you can just do things. It's too easy to overthink the current idea and waste time. Just ship, so you can ship even more.
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Day 1 of the 12 days of OpenAI! ๐. We're launching o1, which for the first time combines multimodality with the new reasoning paradigm, in addition to being smarter and faster. We're also launching the pro tier, a $200/mo plan for unlimited access to our models (including.
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Super excited about Operator, an AI agent that uses its own browser to do tasks for you on the web. It's a research preview, so for now it's just to Pro subscribers in the US. I'd love to hear in the replies what you're using it for!.
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Day 10 ๐: 1-800-CHATGPT โจ. Call ChatGPT on your phone if you're in the US, or message it on @WhatsApp from anywhere on the planet. It's free, no account needed! Give it a try right now.
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Today marks 1 year since we brought @thirdweil home from the NICU. Words can't describe how lucky we are to have him. http://t.co/3lwntIoFFU.
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Finished! 2:44:10 I think. Ran 26.5 with all my weaving! Last 10k hurt more than I thought but happy with the run. http://t.co/49bZW0qKED.
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I take my eyes off of Matthew for 15 minutes and this happens:
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๐งตLife update: Iโve made the very tough decision to step down as President of @Planet. I wonโt be going far thoughโafter my last day in May, Iโll be continuing on as an advisor to the executive team, and staying close to our work in DC as a new member of the Planet Federal board.
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It's here! Project Lightning, aka Moments. A radically new way to experience Twitter, and an exciting next chapter. http://t.co/xD9aa3UeqH.
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Day 4 of the 12 days of OpenAI: Canvas!. Canvas is a new way to collaborate with ChatGPT for writing and coding. Today it'll launch to everyone, with built-in python execution and integration with Custom GPTs! . Canvas allows you to work alongside ChatGPT; it's been super.
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The ability to copy text on my mac and paste it a second later from my iPhone is an under-discussed all-time great feature.
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Excited to join the board of @Strava. Everyone is an athlete, and exercise is inherently social.
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Finished! Took 5th place in 6:48, a PR by about 9 mins. That was hard. Time to lie down. http://t.co/rdXe6MmKyZ.
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I run my age each year for my birthday. so today I celebrated turning 41 by running 41 miles. 5000+ feet of vert! I got to catch up with two great friends, and we saw our first ever fogbow (see below). At some point this tradition will switch to km, but NOT TODAY ๐ช
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Rolling out to ChatGPT paid users this week: Advanced Voice Mode on web! ๐ . We launched Advanced Voice Mode in our iOS and Android apps in September, and just recently brought them to our desktop apps (โnow weโre excited to add web to the mix. This means
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Search in ChatGPT is here! ๐. ChatGPT can now provide great answers to more questionsโwith fast results and links to relevant pages. Ask it about travel, sports, news, anything. As always, would love your feedback. I know you won't be shy :)
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Day 2 of the 12 days of OpenAI! ๐. Today something for developers: we're introducing Reinforcement Fine Tuning, a new model customization technique for o1/o1-mini. RFT produces expert models in specific domainsโand they're ๐คฏ good, with as few as a couple dozen examples.
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Hanging with @gailtifford @marcusjohns @LoganPaul at the Twitter #Cannes2015 dinner! http://t.co/ZSBcYFfFtj.
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Day 5 of the 12 days of OpenAI: โจ Apple Intelligence + ChatGPT โจ. Now ChatGPT is fully integrated with Siri and Apple Intelligence, one click away at all times across iPhone, iPad, and Mac. It's available without an account, or you can connect your account in settings to make
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Excited for thisโand congrats to everyone at Apple and OpenAI who has worked so hard to make it real!.
ChatGPT in Apple Intelligence launches to developer beta today โ try it in Siri, Visual Intelligence, and Writing Tools!
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And speaking of Libra, working with my amazing colleagues in Tel Aviv made me want to learn their language (ืืืจืืช ืฉืืื ืืืืช ืฉืืื ืืืื ืืืชืจ ืืืขืืจืืช ืฉืื ืื ืคืขื). Many years on, I'm still working on itโproud to have kept a 1600 day streak learning Hebrew on @duolingo!
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Finished 2nd this morning in the Donner Lake Half-Ironman! Time 5:03. Tough bike course + at 6k feet of elevation, feeling tired but good :)
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Happy 10th anniversary, @elizabeth! Thank you for taking a chance on a nerdy physics grad student back in 2006. and for continuing to tolerate a nerdy middle aged man and three small kids today โค๏ธ
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Starting today on Instagram, you can save posts you'd like to revisit later. Totally private and only visible to you. Try it out today!
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There is a Twitter bot named @iaminigomontoya that replies to every Tweet containing the word "inconceivable." I love Twitter.
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Done! 50 miles down. Finished 5th in 6:31:xx. 15 minute PR! And actually still feeling pretty good somehow.
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1/ Nothing but gratitude and respect for @dickc. He has been a friend and mentor to me for nearly six years, and my boss for the last three.
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Flight, Twitter's first mobile developer conference, is TOMORROW. Getting excited. http://t.co/c2tFNaiE63.
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Day 9: โจmini dev day โจ. A whole series of launches today:.โข o1 in the API, complete with function calling, structured outputs, developer messages, and vision.โข GPT-4o AND 4o-mini voice model updates in the API: higher quality and major price drops.โข WebRTC integration for.
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Fact. I'm excited for @sriramk in his new role and in general to see a closer relationship between tech and DC.
Attacks against Sriram are midwit and disgusting. He is an American citizen and objectively far more intelligent and successful than everyone dunking on him for scoring political points . Heโs the kind of legal and skilled immigrant story we should want 10x more of.
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o3 with a major breakthrough on ARC-AGI ๐คฏ.
New verified ARC-AGI-Pub SoTA!. @OpenAI o3 has scored a breakthrough 75.7% on the ARC-AGI Semi-Private Evaluation. And a high-compute o3 configuration (not eligible for ARC-AGI-Pub) scored 87.5% on the Semi-Private Eval. 1/4
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From zero to over 250 million daily users in one year: Happy Birthday Instagram Stories!
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This is amazing. The US Geological Survey uses two things to detect earthquakes:.1. seismographs.2. Twitter.
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Done! 4th place. That was. hard, especially the last 20 miles.
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This @adambain photo is the greatest moment of the sales conference so far. #AdamBainIsSoNice #LookAtThatGoatee
http://t.co/YyBck5stjL.
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Excited to gฬถeฬถtฬถ ฬถmฬถaฬถkฬถeฬถuฬถpฬถ ฬถdฬถoฬถnฬถeฬถ go on stage with @mikeyk @saranormous to talk building products with AI at the #lennyandfriends summit!
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Matthew is learning how to talk to Alexa. This morning he was trying to play "You're Welcome" from Moana and instead he got "Welcome to the Jungle" playing at top volume at 5:45am.
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Launching today on Instagram: .1. Auto-save all your stories to a private part of your profile.2. Showcase your fav stories as highlights on your profile!
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Regardless of party, it's great to be able to respect the human holding the office of President of the United States again.
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If FaceID accuracy is 1 in 1,000,000, does that mean there are 7,500 people on Earth who can unlock my phone?.
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Back at it! Ran my first real ultramarathon since before covid. First place in the Horseshoe Lake 50k! And @elizabeth took second in the 30k ๐๐
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ICYMI: today we ALSO announced that we're dropping the 140 character limit for DMs. http://t.co/8M1fwW55CJ.
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Team Twitter reunion at the NBA Tech Summit. Memories!
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One of the most significant engineering achievements in human history.
BREAKING: SpaceX just successfully caught its Super Heavy rocket booster in mid-air on its first try! This is the first time anyone has accomplished such a feat, marking one of the most significant engineering achievements in human history. Congrats @SpaceX team! ๐
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Great profile on @elizabeth & what she's learned at companies like @Twitter and firms like @a16z and 137 Ventures over the years. So proud of her and everything she's accomplished while also running ultramarathons and @Paperwheel and raising 3 small kids.
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๐: @planet will be going public! Imaging the entire earth on a daily basis is a new capability for humanity & it matters for every biz and gov in the world. I'm blown away by what this team has built in the last 10 yearsโand excited for how we'll change the world in the next 10.
Today, Planet announced its intention to go public via a merger with dMY Technology Group, Inc. IV. We are so proud of what weโve accomplished over the last 10 years and are excited for whatโs next. Read more about the business combination here:
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This is concerning for 2 reasons:.1. There is an infant wandering around with no diaper.2. He removed his own diaper http://t.co/Ne7zvMqhIt.
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Great piece on @beller, who has been critical to Libra and Calibra since before they had names.
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This is like that scene in Jurassic Park when they realize the velociraptors can open doors http://t.co/alr6zxSVQo.
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Big news! @Planet is set to acquire @sinergise, makers of the leading software platform @sentinel_hub. Weโre excited to invest in and build on the great work theyโve done in Europe and across the globe.
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Day 6 ๐: video in advanced voice mode! Now you can add live video and screensharing to your conversations with ChatGPT. Also: Santa mode ๐
๐ผ, which has been endlessly fun to test with my kids. Try it by clicking the โ๏ธ or by choosing Santa in the voice selector. Both rolling.
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