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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- Why Anthropic and OpenAI Reset Limits in the Same Week — Fable 5 vs GPT-5.6 Sol →
@ClaudeDevs and @thsottiaux both reset limits as GPT-5.6 Sol and Fable 5 collided. explainx.ai explains the competitive math — 60 vs 59 benchmark points, 30% Fable cost, and why neither can afford angry developers this week.
- Musk vs Altman Scammer Feud: Space Data Centers, OpenAI History, and July 2026 Blowup →
Musk called Altman a scammer; Altman countered on short-term space datacenter pitches to public investors. explainx.ai maps the feud from 2015 cofounding to July 2026.
- Stop the AI Race Protest — Hundreds March on OpenAI, Anthropic & DeepMind SF →
Stop the AI Race led the largest US anti-frontier-AI march through Mission Bay and SoMa. CEOs asked to pause if China and rivals do too. Polymarket says ~16% on federal safety law — explainx.ai ties protest demands to Trump EO and GPT-5.6 week.
- OpenAI Bio Bug Bounty: $50K for Universal GPT-5.6 Biosafety Jailbreak (July 2026) →
@OpenAI evolves GPT-5.5 Bio Bug Bounty into the ongoing OpenAI Bio Bounty Program at $50K for universal biology jailbreaks — GPT-5.6 in scope from day one.
- GPT-5.6 Sol, Terra, Luna vs Claude Fable 5: Complete Frontier Comparison →
OpenAI launches GPT-5.6 publicly July 9; Fable 5 live globally since July 1. Sol Ultra leads Terminal-Bench at 91.9%; Fable leads SWE-Bench Pro at 80.3%. Terra matches Fable on terminal work at half the price — tier-by-tier guide.
- Grok 4.5 in Cursor: SpaceXAI MoE Model — Benchmarks, Pricing, Cyber Guards →
Cursor's July 8 blog confirms Grok 4.5 live in the IDE — joint SpaceXAI training, broad STEM mix beyond Composer 2.5's coding focus, double usage week one. Benchmarks vs Opus 4.8, GPT-5.5, Fable 5 — plus CursorBench contamination note.