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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- Anthropic Reportedly Targets $100B IPO, Nvidia in Talks for $10B Stake →
Multiple outlets are reporting Anthropic is preparing an IPO that could raise close to $100 billion — which would be over 3x the size of the current record holder, Saudi Aramco's 2019 listing — at a valuation reported as either $2 trillion or $2.3 trillion depending on the outlet. Nvidia is separately reported to be in talks for a $10 billion anchor investment. Here's what's confirmed, what's still "in talks," and why the numbers don't fully agree yet.
- Dario Amodei Wants to "Pace the Frontier" — Here's the Actual Plan →
Anthropic CEO Dario Amodei published "We Must Pace the Frontier," a three-step plan to slow AI capability growth without stopping it. The one concrete step: giving outside evaluators like METR permanent, employee-level access to Anthropic's systems. Here's the plan, the reasoning behind it, and why Emad Mostaque and others think it doesn't add up.
- Musk, Altman, and Hassabis React: The "Pace the Frontier" Reaction →
Dario Amodei's "We Must Pace the Frontier" essay drew reactions fast — Elon Musk posted support within roughly an hour, Sam Altman committed OpenAI to match Anthropic's embedded-evaluator program, and Google DeepMind CEO Demis Hassabis called the essay's direction "correct," pointing to DeepMind's own proposal for an industry-wide AI standards body. Not everyone agreed: Chamath Palihapitiya called it a power grab that threatens open-source AI, and one reply called for Anthropic to be nationalized outright. Here's the full reaction, and what it means that industry coordination — Amodei's Step 2 — may already be starting.
- Alignment as a Gating Factor: Wang, Musk, and the Open-Source Fight →
Two X threads from September 13, 2026 look unrelated — Alexandr Wang on alignment as a "gating factor" for Meta Superintelligence Labs, and Elon Musk declaring "nothing can shut down open source" — until you notice they landed the same day Speaker Mike Johnson paused Congressional recess to pass AI legislation. Here's the fault line connecting all three.