Why I’m leaving OpenAI to build telepathy
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Why I’m leaving OpenAI to build telepathy.
August 4, 2026 On Thursday, July 23rd, I resigned from OpenAI. On the 24th, I started as a Founding Researcher at Conduit. We're building telepathy: thought-to-text models, trained on non-invasive neural data. I'll talk about: Thought-to-text: what using telepathic tools will be like in 2027, 2030, and 2035 How do we build thought-to-text: why Conduit is collecting immense quantities of non-invasive neural data Why I joined: I joined because of the audacious vision, the brilliant people, and the fun problems Hi: about me 1. Thought-to-text, aka telepathy My prediction: In a couple…
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