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The Role Models · Season One · Episode 7 · 29 min

The Quiet Build

2021 to November 2022: InstructGPT, Codex, DALL·E 2, and then ChatGPT — a research preview that hits a million users in five days. Episode 7 of The Role Models is the quiet build before the world notices, told from OpenAI's own posts and the public record.

Disclaimer: a dramatization based on public records, including court filings, published emails and company posts. Some scenes and dialogue are reconstructed or composited. Voices are AI-generated and perform words from the public record; they are not intended to resemble any real person. Not affiliated with or endorsed by OpenAI or any person depicted. Allegations in court filings are unproven claims.