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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- When Will GPT-5.6 Sol, Terra, and Luna Be Available to Everyone? →
@OpenAI July 9: Sol, Terra, Luna rolling out now in ChatGPT, Codex, and API. Tier-by-tier access guide and what to do if you don't see them yet.
- AI and Climate Change: The Paradox of a Tool That Causes and Fights the Crisis →
Every ChatGPT query consumes roughly 10x the energy of a Google search. Training GPT-4 emitted an estimated 500 tonnes of CO2. Yet the same technology is slashing weather-forecast times from 12 hours to 1 minute, discovering millions of new battery materials, and cutting data-center cooling energy by 40%. Both things are true — and the tension between them defines the most important technology debate of 2026.
- Will GPT-5.6 Only Be Available in the USA? International Access Explained →
Fable 5 restored July 1 — GPT-5.6 next. Same export-control framework: permissioned preview now, broad access around the corner.
- OpenAI Jalapeño: First AI Chip Built from Scratch for LLM Inference, Co-Developed with Broadcom →
OpenAI's first in-house silicon: why a blank-slate inference chip matters, what separates Jalapeño from adapted GPU designs, the record nine-month tape-out story, and what the full-stack flywheel means for anyone building on OpenAI APIs.
- Codex vs Claude Code: The Developer Verdict (June 2026) →
Gokul Rajaram's take after weeks of daily use — "Use Claude Code for brainstorming and planning. Use Codex for reviews and execution." Alex Finn launched a live newsletter landing page in 5 minutes via Codex: it wrote the code, pushed to GitHub, connected Vercel, and chose the domain. Codex has 4M weekly users. Most serious developers now subscribe to both at ~$20/month each. Here is the full breakdown.
- Trump's June 2 AI Executive Order: The "Covered Frontier Model" Framework That Explains the Fable 5 Ban →