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OpenAI
@OpenAI · 5.2M followers
Best of 2025 · 43.5K likes
“Sound on.”
36 of the 100 best posts X exposes came from 2025. That is the most recent full year. The account is at its peak, or has not reached it yet.
Simon Willison
@simonw · 216.5K followers
@OpenAI
Biggest post of 2026 · 308.3K likes · Sep 3, 2026
This is GPT-6 Astra. Anything you can do on a computer, Astra can do for you. Fast.
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@simonw
@OpenAI
No post framed as earnings among the 398 posts read.
Horizon 1000 is a new $50 million initiative with the Gates Foundation, combining funding and technology to support health leaders in African countries as they strengthen primary health care across 1…
Read the postWe’re launching a $500K Red Teaming Challenge to strengthen open source safety. Researchers, developers, and enthusiasts worldwide are invited to help uncover novel risks—judged by experts from OpenA…
Read the postAnnouncing the Cybersecurity Grant Program — a $1M initiative to boost and quantify AI-powered cybersecurity capabilities and to foster high-level AI and cybersecurity discourse:
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top posts point at @OpenAI · 1 quote · 1 mention · 2.6K likes
One way. @simonw’s best posts point at @OpenAI; none of @OpenAI’s top posts point at @simonw. Counted from each account’s top posts, where a quote, a reply, or a mention each count one post. Likes, follows, and replies received are not visible in this data and are not claimed.
| Measure | @OpenAI | @simonw |
|---|---|---|
| 2026 and the GitHub side | ||
| Top posts from 2026 so far | 55 | 45 |
| Likes on 2026’s ten best | 590.8K | — |
| GitHub days in 2026 | — | 233 |
| GitHub days · last 90 | — | 81 |
| GitHub streak · days in a row | — | 102 |
| Ships · share of the last 365 days | — | 94% |
Best of 2025 · 12K likes
“Quitting programming as a career right now because of LLMs would be like quitting carpentry as a career thanks to the invention of the tabl…”
35 of the 100 best posts X exposes came from 2025. That is the most recent full year. The account is at its peak, or has not reached it yet.
Biggest post of 2026 · 216 likes · Sep 2, 2026
I wrote some notes on what's new in the (published) Fable 5.1 system prompt in comparison to Fable 5 - it's mostly about not reproducing song lyrics and avoiding drawing copyrighted characters
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This year is shown, not ranked: likes accumulate with age, so 2026 is always undercounted against completed years. The GitHub side counts days with any activity, public or private, from the contribution calendar.
We’ve been talking at OpenAI about what we can do to help Black equity. We’re committing $1M to this cause via direct donations and expanding our Scholars program, which provides educational resource…
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No post framed as earnings among the 16 posts read.
Every line is a post by the account itself that names a dollar figure, newest first, linked so you can read it in place. ShipRatio checks that the post exists, not the number. A figure framed as revenue, MRR, profit, or sales is marked earned; a price, a raise, or someone else’s number is a mention.
| Private share of that activity | — | 51% |
| The record |
| Peak year | 2025 | 2025 |
| Top posts from the peak | 36 | 35 |
| Top posts counted | 100 | 100 |
| Likes across the sample | 1.1M | 134.3K |
| Best post | 128.4K | 12K |
| Median likes | 5.8K | 829 |
| Years in a row with a top post | 7 | 9 |
| Last 12 months vs the 12 before | ×4.4 | ×1.9 |
| Followers | 5.2M | 216.5K |