Co-founder and CEO of OpenAI
Sam Altman
Sam Altman is the co-founder and CEO of OpenAI, the company behind ChatGPT. He previously served as president of startup accelerator Y Combinator.
About Sam Altman
Sam Altman is the co-founder and CEO of OpenAI, an artificial intelligence research and deployment company whose products include ChatGPT and DALL·E. He helped establish OpenAI in 2015 as a nonprofit research laboratory.
Before focusing on OpenAI, Altman served as president of Y Combinator from 2014 to 2019. His public work includes discussions of AI deployment, governance, safety, and the economic effects of increasingly capable AI systems.
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- Grok 4.7 Picks Republicans, GPT-6.1 Sol Picks Democrats: What the Convovo Midterm Study Shows →
A Cornell-led studio forced two frontier models to name a candidate in nearly 500 2026 midterm races. Grok 4.7 chose the Republican 92% of the time, GPT-6.1 Sol chose the Democrat 97%. explainx.ai separates what the study found from what it cannot show.
- Altman Says Advanced AI Will Escape Its Sandbox. What He Said and What It Means →
In an interview reported by The Decoder on October 23, 2026, OpenAI CEO Sam Altman said containment has a shelf life: sandboxes and monitoring work for a while, and then only alignment does. Here is what he said, who disagrees, and what to change in how you run agents today.
- Texas Sues OpenAI and Sam Altman: What Paxton Is Asking a Court to Order →
Texas Attorney General Ken Paxton filed suit in Collin County against OpenAI and Sam Altman on October 23, 2026. We set out what the complaint is reported to allege, the unusual relief it seeks, and how it fits a widening wave of state cases.
- Hassabis Says AGI in Two to Three Years: What the WSJ Reports and What His Timeline History Shows →
On October 21, 2026 the Wall Street Journal reported that Google DeepMind CEO Demis Hassabis expects AGI within two to three years, shortened from his earlier three-to-five-year view. We could not read the interview itself, so this post sets out what is confirmed, how his public timeline has moved, and what the number does and does not mean.
- Altman's Three AI Safety Endgames: What The Information Reported vs What Is Verified →
According to The Information, as relayed by The Decoder, Sam Altman told OpenAI staff last week about three paths to safe AI: an IAEA-style watchdog, a merger of the big labs, or one firm so dominant it could cut off everyone else's compute. Here is what is reported, what OpenAI has said in public, and what nobody has confirmed.