http://simonwillison.net/2025-09-28T18:24:13+00:00Simon Willison2025-09-28T18:24:13+00:002025-09-28T18:24:13+00:00https://simonwillison.net/2025/Sep/28/nick-turley/#atom-tag

<blockquote cite="https://twitter.com/nickaturley/status/1972031684913799355"><p>We’ve seen the strong reactions to 4o responses and want to explain what is happening.</p> <p>We’ve started testing a new safety routing system in ChatGPT.</p> <p>As we previously mentioned, when conversations touch on sensitive and emotional topics the system may switch mid-chat to a reasoning model or GPT-5 designed to handle these contexts with extra care. This is similar to how we route conversations that require extra thinking to our reasoning models; our goal is to always deliver answers aligned with our Model Spec.</p> <p>Routing happens on a per-message basis; switching from the default model happens on a temporary basis. ChatGPT will tell you which model is active when asked.</p></blockquote> <p class="cite">&mdash; <a href="https://twitter.com/nickaturley/status/1972031684913799355">Nick Turley</a>, Head of ChatGPT, OpenAI</p> <p>Tags: <a href="https://simonwillison.net/tags/ai">ai</a>, <a href="https://simonwillison.net/tags/openai">openai</a>, <a href="https://simonwillison.net/tags/generative-ai">generative-ai</a>, <a href="https://simonwillison.net/tags/chatgpt">chatgpt</a>, <a href="https://simonwillison.net/tags/llms">llms</a>, <a href="https://simonwillison.net/tags/nick-turley">nick-turley</a></p>

2025-08-12T03:32:04+00:002025-08-12T03:32:04+00:00https://simonwillison.net/2025/Aug/12/nick-turley/#atom-tag

<blockquote cite="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ixY2PvQJ0To&amp;t=2322s"><p>I think there's been a lot of decisions over time that proved pretty consequential, but we made them very quickly as we have to. [...]</p> <p>[On pricing] I had this kind of panic attack because we really needed to launch subscriptions because at the time we were taking the product down all the time. [...]</p> <p>So what I did do is ship a Google Form to Discord with <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Van_Westendorp%27s_Price_Sensitivity_Meter">the four questions you're supposed to ask</a> on how to price something.</p> <p>But we got with the $20. We were debating something slightly higher at the time. I often wonder what would have happened because so many other companies ended up copying the $20 price point, so did we erase a bunch of market cap by pricing it this way?</p></blockquote> <p class="cite">&mdash; <a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ixY2PvQJ0To&amp;t=2322s">Nick Turley</a>, Head of ChatGPT, interviewed by Lenny Rachitsky</p> <p>Tags: <a href="https://simonwillison.net/tags/ai">ai</a>, <a href="https://simonwillison.net/tags/discord">discord</a>, <a href="https://simonwillison.net/tags/openai">openai</a>, <a href="https://simonwillison.net/tags/generative-ai">generative-ai</a>, <a href="https://simonwillison.net/tags/chatgpt">chatgpt</a>, <a href="https://simonwillison.net/tags/llms">llms</a>, <a href="https://simonwillison.net/tags/llm-pricing">llm-pricing</a>, <a href="https://simonwillison.net/tags/nick-turley">nick-turley</a></p>

2025-08-04T15:16:44+00:002025-08-04T15:16:44+00:00https://simonwillison.net/2025/Aug/4/nick-turley/#atom-tag

<blockquote cite="https://x.com/nickaturley/status/1952385556664520875"><p>This week, ChatGPT is on track to reach 700M weekly active users — up from 500M at the end of March and 4× since last year.</p></blockquote> <p class="cite">&mdash; <a href="https://x.com/nickaturley/status/1952385556664520875">Nick Turley</a>, Head of ChatGPT, OpenAI</p> <p>Tags: <a href="https://simonwillison.net/tags/ai">ai</a>, <a href="https://simonwillison.net/tags/openai">openai</a>, <a href="https://simonwillison.net/tags/chatgpt">chatgpt</a>, <a href="https://simonwillison.net/tags/nick-turley">nick-turley</a></p>