Samuel Harris Altman (born April 22, 1985) is an American entrepreneur and investor best known as the CEO of OpenAI since 2019 (he was briefly fired and reinstated in November 2023).[1] He is also CEO of AltC Acquisition Corp since 2021.[2] Altman is considered to be one of the leading figures of the AI boom.[3][4][5] He dropped out of Stanford University after two years and founded Loopt, a mobile social networking service, raising more than $30million in venture capital. In 2011, Altman joined Y Combinator, a startup accelerator, and was its president from 2014 to 2019.[6]
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Samuel Harris Altman (born April 22, 1985) is an American entrepreneur and investor best known as the CEO of OpenAI since 2019 (he was briefly fired and...
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Sutskever was one of the members of the OpenAI board who fired CEO SamAltman; Altman returned a week later, and Sutskever stepped down from the board....
following the abrupt removal of SamAltman. She was replaced by Emmett Shear three days later, who was in turn replaced when Altman was reinstated five days...
Watsi. SamAltman took part in Y Combinator's inaugural cohort in 2005 as a founder. In 2014, Paul Graham appointed him as President. Altman introduced...
sophomores SamAltman and Nick Sivo worked to build the first prototype of Loopt. They were later joined by Alok Deshpande as well as two of Sam's childhood...
OpenAI CEO SamAltman would join Microsoft to lead a new advanced AI research team. The following day, after a deal was reached to reinstate Altman as CEO...
warned of abusive behavior before SamAltman's ouster". Washington Post. 2023-12-08. Retrieved 2023-12-18. "SamAltman Returns as OpenAI CEO in Chaotic...
In October 2014, Reddit raised $50 million in a funding round led by SamAltman and including investors Marc Andreessen, Peter Thiel, Ron Conway, Snoop...
members as SamAltman returns?". Reuters. November 23, 2023. Teo, Kai Xiang. "Larry Summers and Bret Taylor are joining OpenAI's board as SamAltman returns"...
some users to see the titles of other users' conversations. OpenAI CEO SamAltman said that users were unable to see the contents of the conversations....
Pennsylvania. Brownstein, Gutwillig, Magner, and the original drummer, Sam "Sammy" Altman, bonded over a shared affinity for psychedelic rock, electronic music...
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2023, the board of directors of OpenAI approached Amodei about replacing SamAltman and potentially merging the two startups. Amodei declined both offers...
following the removal of SamAltman by the board two days earlier. On November 21, an agreement was reached to reinstate Altman as CEO. It was previously...
hosted weekly meals for their founders at their home near Cambridge. SamAltman (a former YC partner) credits Livingston with being essential to the transformation...
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