# An Interview with OpenAI President Greg Brockman About Astra and Alignment

> Ben Thompson's Stratechery interview with OpenAI president Greg Brockman is a rare, detailed look at the thinking behind Astra, the company's new computer-use model. Brockman walks through what the system can do and how OpenAI is approaching safety for a model designed to act autonomously on a machine. The conversation also surfaces a notable strategic choice: OpenAI cancelled Sora, its consumer video effort, and Brockman frames it as a decision about compute constraints and priorities, redirecting scarce resources toward capability over entertainment. Along the way he engages directly with alignment questions that frontier models raise. For readers who want the reasoning rather than the press release, it is one of the more revealing windows into how OpenAI is choosing what to build and, just as tellingly, what to walk away from.

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## Wortins' read

Ben Thompson's Stratechery interview with OpenAI president Greg Brockman is a rare, detailed look at the thinking behind Astra, the company's new computer-use model. Brockman walks through what the system can do and how OpenAI is approaching safety for a model designed to act autonomously on a machine. The conversation also surfaces a notable strategic choice: OpenAI cancelled Sora, its consumer video effort, and Brockman frames it as a decision about compute constraints and priorities, redirecting scarce resources toward capability over entertainment. Along the way he engages directly with alignment questions that frontier models raise. For readers who want the reasoning rather than the press release, it is one of the more revealing windows into how OpenAI is choosing what to build and, just as tellingly, what to walk away from.

## Source

[Read the full story at Stratechery](https://stratechery.com/2026/an-interview-with-openai-president-greg-brockman-about-astra-and-alignment/)

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