This product by OpenAI has come up 2 times on Lex Fridman. One of those mentions was a genuine on-air recommendation, not just a passing reference. The people who brought it up: Lex Fridman, guest. The earliest mention we indexed is from 2023-03-25 and the most recent from 2026-02-12. Every occurrence below links to the episode page and to the exact second it was said on YouTube.
Every time it came up
OpenClaw: The Viral AI Agent that Broke the Internet - Peter Steinberger | Lex Fridman Podcast #491
“I like Codex more because it doesn't require so much charade. It will just read a lot of code by default.”— guest
The guest here is Peter Steinberger: Creator of OpenClaw, the viral open-source AI agent (formerly named WA-Relay, Claude's, and MoldBot). He previously spent 13 years building PSPDFKit, software used on a billion devices, before selling it and later returning to programming. Peter Steinberger on building OpenClaw, the open-source AI agent that took over tech, plus the future of agentic engineering.
Sam Altman: OpenAI CEO on GPT-4, ChatGPT, and the Future of AI | Lex Fridman Podcast #367
“the company behind gpt4 jgbt Dolly codex and many other AD Technologies”— Lex Fridman
The guest here is Sam Altman: CEO of OpenAI, the company behind GPT-4, ChatGPT, DALL-E, Codex and Whisper. Former president of Y Combinator and a leading voice on AGI development and safety. OpenAI CEO Sam Altman on GPT-4, AGI safety, the iterative-deployment philosophy, bias, jobs, and the future of intelligence.
