How One Model Navigates 90,000 Tables

Estimated duration: ~4 minutes Thirteen tools. Ninety thousand tables. Alex Xu says OpenAI’s data agent works across a data platform of 1.5 exabytes using a single model and a deliberately small set of tools. Those numbers make his architectural point. A team facing that much data might expect to add more models, routers to choose among them, and specialized retrieval systems. Xu says OpenAI took a simpler route. He describes the agent as “pretty vanilla” by design, and points instead to the context supplied to its model. Xu bases the account on a conversation with Emma Tang, OpenAI’s head of data platform engineering. The question worth following is this: if the agent has one model and thirteen tools, how does it find its way through ninety thousand tables? Xu’s answer, in the post we have, is six layers of context.

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