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Sam Altman, CEO of OpenAI, attends the 54th annual meeting of the World Economic Forum in Davos, Switzerland, on Jan. 18, 2024. On Friday, advanced nuclear fission company Oklo, for which Sam Altman serves as chairman, started trading on the New York Stock Exchange. Oklo's business model is based on commercializing nuclear fission, the reaction that fuels all nuclear power plants. "I don't see a way for us to get there without nuclear," Altman told CNBC in 2023. It's not Altman's only foray into nuclear energy or other infrastructure that could power large-scale AI growth.

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☆ Sam Altman doesn't think we are worried enough about how AI will impact the economy
▼ + stars: | 2024-05-08 | by ( Aaron Mok | ) www.businessinsider.com time to read: +3 min

OpenAI CEO Sam Altman says AI's impact on the economy should be a top of mind concern. Research suggests AI has the potential to affect millions of jobs and lead to lower wages. But when OpenAI CEO Sam Altman was asked for his thoughts on how the spread of AI-generated misinformation may affect elections, the tech leader appeared to be more concerned about another issue: AI's impact on the economy. An International Monetary Fund study from earlier this year found that AI may impact roughly 60% of jobs in "advanced economies." But Altman said he is still worried about AI's potential on the labor market.

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☆ Sam Altman wants to make AI like a 'super-competent colleague that knows absolutely everything' about your life
▼ + stars: | 2024-05-04 | by ( Lakshmi Varanasi | ) www.businessinsider.com time to read: +2 min

OpenAI CEO Sam Altman described the ultimate AI app to the MIT Technology Review. Altman's vision is that AI will take on real-world tasks — not just function as a chatbot. download the app Email address Sign up By clicking “Sign Up”, you accept our Terms of Service and Privacy Policy . Related storiesThe bottom line is that Altman wants AI to function as more than just a chatbot. Altman didn't specify when this tool will be available and how advanced AI must be to support it.

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☆ Sam Altman says he could do with more collaboration and less of Elon Musk tweeting a silver medal at Jeff Bezos to flex his wealth
▼ + stars: | 2024-03-19 | by ( Kwan Wei Kevin Tan | ) www.businessinsider.com time to read: +1 min

Sam Altman says collaborating with others isn't something Elon Musk is "most known for." Altman cited Musk's past behavior, when he'd dethroned Jeff Bezos as the world's richest person. Musk sent a silver medal emoji to Bezos via an X post in September 2021. AdvertisementSam Altman didn't like it when Elon Musk made fun of Jeff Bezos after surpassing Bezos as the world's richest person in 2021. But Altman raised a counterpoint that for Musk, collaborating with others is "not really the thing he's most known for."

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☆ What keeps Sam Altman up at night?
▼ + stars: | 2024-02-13 | by ( Ana Altchek | ) www.businessinsider.com time to read: +2 min

OpenAI CEO Sam Altman said that "all of the sci-fi stuff" keeps him up at night. AdvertisementEver wondered what keeps Sam Altman up at night? The OpenAI CEO tweeted last February that regulation was critical to AI development and that the world needed time to figure it out. Despite the broader fears that keep him up at night, Altman said that he believes that things will go "tremendously right." "I think we can easily imagine a world in the not-so-distant future where everybody has a better life than they have today," Altman said.

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Read previewThe recent firing and rehiring of OpenAI CEO Sam Altman has put his leadership and personality under a microscope. People who have worked closely with Altman told Business Insider the truth lies somewhere in the middle. Advertisement"The thing I loved about OpenAI is you got to be heard," a former employee told BI. Relationship with MicrosoftWhile Altman is approachable, insiders said his obsession with growing the company can make him seem terse, impatient and superior to other "big tech" companies. AdvertisementAre you a Microsoft or OpenAI employee, or someone else with information to share?

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☆ If OpenAI's board was trying to save humanity from Sam Altman, it failed. So it's time to come clean.
▼ + stars: | 2023-11-21 | by ( Henry Blodget | ) www.businessinsider.com time to read: +3 min

Sam Altman will be in charge of OpenAI's team and products no matter what. So the three remaining OpenAI Board members should explain why they fired him and move on. But, as Business Insider's Alistair Barr has argued, if the goal of the three remaining OpenAI Board members is to save humans from OpenAI's product, it's time for those board members to say so. As a member of humanity, I do thank the three remaining OpenAI members for maybe looking out for us. AdvertisementBecause Sam Altman is going to be leading the OpenAI team and continuing its product development either way.

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☆ The most surprising detail of Altman's ouster might be the fact that OpenAI fired him over a Google Meet call
▼ + stars: | 2023-11-19 | by ( Lakshmi Varanasi | ) www.businessinsider.com time to read: +3 min

Sam Altman was fired via Google Meet, according to his former colleague Greg Brockman. The ChatGPT maker abruptly fired its CEO, Sam Altman, around noon on Friday, shocking many inside and outside of the company. Was that a snub to Microsoft, OpenAI's lead investor, which makes its own set of workplace communication tools ? They fired Sam Altman on Google Meet? Another person joked on X, "Altman getting fired via Google Meet says everything you need to know about Microsoft Teams."

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OpenAI investors are pushing to bring back Sam Altman as CEO one day after he was ousted by the board, according to people familiar with the matter. Sequoia Capital has also been in contact with Altman, a person familiar with knowledge of the matter told CNBC. Sequoia also informed Microsoft that it would back efforts to bring back Altman and Brockman, the person said. The Verge first reported on the talks to bring back Altman. In addition to ousting Altman, the company removed Brockman, the chairman, from his board leadership position but said he would remain as president.

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☆ OpenAI's Sam Altman exits as CEO because 'board no longer has confidence' in his ability to lead
▼ + stars: | 2023-11-17 | by ( Jonathan Vanian | In | ) www.cnbc.com time to read: +5 min

OpenAI's board of directors said Friday that Sam Altman will step down as CEO and will be replaced on an interim basis by technology chief Mira Murati. "The board no longer has confidence in his ability to continue leading OpenAI," the statement said. The board also said that Greg Brockman, OpenAI's president, "will be stepping down as chairman of the board and will remain in his role at the company, reporting to the CEO." Before taking over as CEO, Altman, 38, was president of startup accelerator Y Combinator and gained prominence in Silicon Valley as an early-stage investor. Microsoft CEO Satya Nadella made a surprise guest appearance during the event, joining Altman on stage to discuss the startup's AI technologies and its partnership with Microsoft.

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☆ Open AI CEO Sam Altman and his boyfriend Oliver Mulherin want to have kids soon
▼ + stars: | 2023-09-26 | by ( Aaron Mok | ) www.businessinsider.com time to read: +3 min

OpenAI CEO Sam Altman wants to have kids soon with his boyfriend, Oliver Mulherin. Before Mulherin, Altman was last known to be dating Nick Sivo, his cofounder of their startup Loopt. The leader behind the buzzy conversational AI chatbot told New York Magazine that he and his boyfriend, Oliver Mulherin, an Australian programmer, want to have kids soon. AdvertisementAdvertisementLike Altman, Mulherin seems to have an interest in AI. Before Mulherin, Altman was last known to be dating Nick Sivo; they were together for nine years, Altman told the New Yorker.

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☆ Sam Altman tracked how quickly people responded to his texts and emails to distinguish between 'great and mediocre founders'
▼ + stars: | 2023-09-26 | by ( Nidhi Pandurangi | ) www.businessinsider.com time to read: +3 min

Sam Altman tracked how quickly Y Combinator founders responded to his daily emails and texts. During that time, he kept notes on how quickly founders responded to his daily emails and texts, according to New York Magazine's Elizabeth Weil. Neither Altman's blog post nor the New York Magazine profile specified Altman's expected response times to texts and emails. Altman responded that he had written a program to look at how quickly Y Combinator's best founders answer his emails versus the "bad" ones. It was a difference of minutes versus days on average response times," Altman said at the time.

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☆ OpenAI CEO Sam Altman says he worked so hard on building his first startup with his ex-boyfriend that he got scurvy
▼ + stars: | 2023-09-25 | by ( Aaron Mok | ) www.businessinsider.com time to read: +3 min

Sam Altman, the CEO of OpenAI, said he got scurvy from working too hard on his first startup, Loopt. AdvertisementAdvertisementSam Altman, the CEO of OpenAI, may have learned how to manage his workload the hard way — through malnutrition, according to a New York Magazine profile. He told New York Magazine he worked so hard on building Loopt that he got scurvy — a vitamin-C deficiency that stems from not eating enough fruits and vegetables. After selling the company, Altman said, he took a year off and spent his free time reading books, traveling, and playing video games. AdvertisementAdvertisement"It changed my life," Altman told New York Magazine of the ashram.

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☆ OpenAI CEO Sam Altman says he worked so hard on building his first start-up with his ex-boyfriend that he got scurvy
▼ + stars: | 2023-09-25 | by ( Aaron Mok | ) www.businessinsider.com time to read: +3 min

Sam Altman, CEO of OpenAI, said he got scurvy from working too hard on his start-up, Loopt. AdvertisementAdvertisementSam Altman, the CEO of OpenAI, may have learned how to manage his work load the hard way — through malnutrition, according to a New York Magazine profile. Before Altman started leading efforts behind ChatGPT, the buzzy conversational AI chatbot, he first stepped into the tech start-up world in 2004 when he was a sophomore at Stanford University. After selling the company, Altman said he took a year and off and spent his free time reading books, traveling, and playing video games. AdvertisementAdvertisement"It changed my life," Altman told New York Magazine in regard to the ashram.

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☆ OpenAI CEO Sam Altman says there's 'too much of an investor frenzy around AI in the short-term' in Silicon Valley
▼ + stars: | 2023-06-07 | by ( Vishal Persaud | ) www.businessinsider.com time to read: +4 min

Altman said there's too much short-term investor frenzy, and not enough long-term vision. "There's crazy stuff happening in Silicon Valley right now," the OpenAI CEO said. OpenAI CEO Sam Altman thinks there's too much investor hype around artificial intelligence in Silicon Valley right now. When asked about the investor AI frenzy, Altman didn't mince words. Funding to generative AI startups alone has jumped 580% in the past three years, according to PitchBook data.

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☆ Sam Altman didn't take any equity in OpenAI, report says
▼ + stars: | 2023-03-24 | by ( Rohan Goswami | ) www.cnbc.com time to read: +2 min

Sam Altman, president of Y Combinator, pauses during the New Work Summit in Half Moon Bay, California, U.S., on Monday, Feb. 25, 2019. Altman didn't take an equity stake in the company when it added the for-profit OpenAI LP entity in 2019, Semafor reported Friday. OpenAI launched as a non-profit model in 2015 with backing from Tesla CEO Elon Musk, who committed $1 billion to OpenAI, Semafor reported. But Musk was unhappy with OpenAI's growth, which he assessed as "fatally behind" Google 's work in AI, Semafor reported. 2019, OpenAI took a $1 billion investment from Microsoft , which has since embedded the company's technologies into its products.

☆ OpenAI CEO says he feels 'awful' after a ChatGPT bug leaked user conversation histories
▼ + stars: | 2023-03-23 | by ( Kate Duffy | ) www.businessinsider.com time to read: +3 min

OpenAI CEO Sam Altman said he felt "awful" after a bug in ChatGPT leaked users' chats. The glitch allowed some ChatGPT users to see the titles of other users' conversations on the tool. Altman didn't name the open-source library, or go into specifics about how it had been implemented by OpenAI. He said the bug allowed some ChatGPT users to see the titles of conversation histories from other users but not the conversations themselves. OpenAI didn't immediately respond to Insider's request for comment made outside of normal US operating hours.

☆ OpenAI's 37-year-old CEO bet $180 million on a little-known biotech startup that's trying to help people live 10 years longer
▼ + stars: | 2023-03-09 | by ( Yeji Jesse Lee | ) www.businessinsider.com time to read: +3 min

According to a report by MIT Technology Review, OpenAI CEO Sam Altman is among the group. Altman has quietly funded a longevity startup with $180 million, MIT Technology Review said. The latest addition to the group is Sam Altman, the 37-year-old CEO of the red-hot AI startup OpenAI. Altman quietly backed a mysterious longevity startup called Retro Biosciences with $180 million of his own funds, according to a report in MIT Technology Review. "The main thing for Retro is to be a really good bio startup, because that is a rare thing," Altman told MIT Technology Review.

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