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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- Sam Altman's AI Metered Utility Vision: Pay-Per-Token Billing Like Electricity (Dystopian Future or Inevitable Evolution?) →
Three months ago, Sam Altman described AI as a utility people buy on demand, like electricity. OpenAI would sell 'tokens' for processing queries—light users pay little, heavy users millions. Goal: intelligence too cheap to meter. But critics see forced minimums and gatekeeping as reality sets in.
- Google's Passive Heart Rate Monitoring: Track Your Heart Health Without a Wearable →
Google Research unveils PHRM, a groundbreaking system that monitors heart rate and resting heart rate passively using your smartphone's front camera during everyday use. Published in Nature.
- Sam Altman and Dario Amodei Walk Back AI Jobs Apocalypse as Reality Sets In →
In a stunning reversal, Sam Altman admits he was 'pretty wrong' about AI wiping out entry-level jobs. Dario Amodei quietly shifts from '50% of white-collar jobs eliminated' to focusing on augmentation. The timing? Both companies eyeing IPOs as enterprise AI costs spiral out of control.
- Google AI Researcher Sparks Debate: We Still Don't Know Why AI Works So Well →
Despite ChatGPT transforming industries and LLMs coding, reasoning, and creating, no one fully understands why massive transformers trained on huge datasets work so well. Google AI researcher Mandy Lu's viral post highlights the science gap: scaling laws predict performance but not the underlying reasons, like thermodynamics before atomic theory.
- Anthropic Files Confidential S-1 with SEC: AI Safety Leader Eyes IPO →
On June 1, 2026, Anthropic confidentially filed a draft S-1 with the SEC, signaling their intent to go public. Fresh off a $65B Series H at $965B valuation, the Claude maker's IPO could be one of the largest tech offerings in history—and a watershed moment for AI safety.