What FDE means at OpenAI

Summary

OpenAI's forward deployed engineering (FDE) team, founded in early 2025, works alongside customers to close what it calls the deployment gap between model capabilities and what people can reliably use. John Deere deployed OpenAI's APIs to scale personalized guidance for farmers using its See & Spray technology, which the article says can reduce chemical use by up to 70%. The article also describes FDEs working with a large semiconductor customer on 10+ verification use cases.

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