Bob McGrew (ex-OpenAI) says the real startup edge is taking what you know deeply outside the model, piping it into frontier AI, and turning the outputs into decisive action. That’s the leverage we’re building at Hubs.
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This theme echoes in every serious AI discussion today: context is the missing piece of the puzzle.
Bob McGrew—former Head of Research at OpenAI—summed it up on Sequoia’s Breakthroughs Needed for AGI podcast:
“If you’re a startup, play where you understand something deeply outside the model—feed that context in, use the outputs, and drive decisions. That’s the opportunity.”
Frontier models will keep sprinting ahead—reasoning better, seeing wider, grasping nuance we once thought unreachable. Yet raw horsepower means little unless it’s pointed at real problems. The leverage lies in pairing sharp domain insight with these models, then turning their answers into decisive action.
Read more about how Hubs can be the bridge between your world and AI here.
Scott Wiener, Founder & CEO
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