Sam Altman
OpenAI founding co-chair.
Wikipedia-confirmed identity. Matched to Wikidata Q7407093 ↗ with a Wikipedia article ↗. Checked 2026-10-02.
OpenAI founding co-chair.
Organizations and connections
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Founding co-chair
Founded
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Educated at
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Chairperson of
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Works or worked for
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Chief executive of
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Works or worked for
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Works or worked for
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Chief executive of
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Educated at
- Wikidata: Sam Altman ↗Wikidata · P69 · Statement Q7407093$814FB2D7-BCB3-4A90-A29A-4275A17F93261 reference record retained in the source statement
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Chief executive of
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Commented on
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- Timeline: Anthropic, OpenAI, and U.S. Government ↗anthropic-timeline.vercel.app · 2026-02-28
Amodei accused Altman of misleadingly portraying himself as a peacemaker.
- Timeline: Anthropic, OpenAI, and U.S. Government ↗anthropic-timeline.vercel.app · 2026-02-28
Reported colleagues
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- ‘Your questions are designed to trick me’: combative Musk grilled over battle with Sam Altman ↗www.theguardian.com · 2026-04-29
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- Can Demis Hassabis save Google? ↗www.bigtechnology.com · 2024-03-29
Elon Musk and Sam Altman founded OpenAI in 2015, and despite plenty of internal drama, the organization began working on text generation.
- Can Demis Hassabis save Google? ↗www.bigtechnology.com · 2024-03-29
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- A History of Silicon Valley ↗www.scaruffi.com · 2020-01-05
- Neuralink and the Brain's Magical Future ↗waitbutwhy.com · 2017-04-20
- Peter Thiel is taking a Break from Democracy ↗www.theatlantic.com · 2023-11-09
- Does Sam Altman know what he’s creating? ↗www.theatlantic.com · 2023-07-24
- AI Friend Apps Are Destroying What's Left of Society ↗www.currentaffairs.org · 2025-07-23
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- A History of Silicon Valley ↗www.scaruffi.com · 2020-01-05
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- A History of Silicon Valley ↗www.scaruffi.com · 2020-01-05
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- A History of Silicon Valley ↗www.scaruffi.com · 2020-01-05
- Wall Street delighted with Microsoft as it spends $100bn on AI ↗www.theguardian.com · 2025-07-30
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- A History of Silicon Valley ↗www.scaruffi.com · 2020-01-05
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- Two years later, deep learning is still faced with the same basic challenges ↗garymarcus.substack.com · 2024-03-11
- The Making of Dario Amodei ↗www.bigtechnology.com · 2025-07-29
- Deep learning is hitting a wall? ↗nautil.us · 2022-03-10
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- Cost of AGI Delusion:Chasing Superintelligence US Falling Behind in Real AI Race ↗www.foreignaffairs.com · 2025-09-27
- Behind Silicon Valley and the GOP’s campaign to ban state AI laws ↗www.bloodinthemachine.com · 2025-05-17
- Why Does Everyone Hate AI? ↗paulkrugman.substack.com · 2026-06-25
- The Making of Dario Amodei ↗www.bigtechnology.com · 2025-07-29
- OpenAI's Sam Altman attends secretive annual meeting with the world’s elite ↗www.cnbc.com · 2023-05-18
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- A History of Silicon Valley ↗www.scaruffi.com · 2020-01-05
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- Sam Altman's Manifest Destiny (2016) ↗www.newyorker.com · 2023-11-22
- The Silicon Valley Loop ↗nymag.com · 2023-02-16
- Sam Altman’s Manifest Destiny ↗www.newyorker.com · 2016-10-03
- Rejected Then Recruited: Our Journey into Y Combinator ↗repl.it · 2018-09-26
- Paul Graham on Conversations with Tyler ↗conversationswithtyler.com · 2023-08-10
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- Elon Musk's Demolition Crew ↗projects.propublica.org · 2025-02-07
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- A History of Silicon Valley ↗www.scaruffi.com · 2020-01-05
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- "I lost trust": Why the OpenAI team in charge of safeguarding humanity imploded ↗www.vox.com · 2024-05-17
- OpenAI's Long-Term AI Risk Team Has Disbanded ↗www.wired.com · 2024-05-17
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- Why Sam Altman was booted from OpenAI, according to new testimony ↗www.theverge.com · 2025-11-08
- Former OpenAI board member explains why they fired Sam Altman ↗www.theverge.com · 2024-05-29
- OpenAI's employees were given two explanations for why Sam Altman was fired ↗www.businessinsider.com · 2023-11-20
- OpenAI co-founder John Schulman says he will leave and join rival Anthropic ↗www.cnbc.com · 2024-08-06
- Sam Altman was raising a VC fund when OpenAI fired him ↗www.semafor.com · 2023-11-18
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- Macron defends EU AI rules and vows crackdown on child ‘digital abuse’ ↗www.theguardian.com · 2026-02-19
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- Why Sam Altman was booted from OpenAI, according to new testimony ↗www.theverge.com · 2025-11-08
- OpenAI was working on advanced model so powerful it alarmed staff ↗www.theguardian.com · 2023-11-23
- Larry Summers resigns from OpenAI board ↗www.cnbc.com · 2025-11-19
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- A History of Silicon Valley ↗www.scaruffi.com · 2020-01-05
- Nvidia Kicks Off the Next Generation of AI with Rubin ↗nvidianews.nvidia.com · 2026-01-08
- A brief, incomplete, and mostly wrong history of robotics ↗generalrobots.substack.com · 2025-06-16
- AI Doesn't Have ROI ↗www.wheresyoured.at · 2026-06-02
- Nvidia, Microsoft, Meta warn against overregulating open-weight models ↗www.cnbc.com · 2026-07-24
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- Making Things Think – AI Book ↗www.holloway.com · 2022-07-07
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- Y Combinator’s Paul Graham: We’re Looking For People Like Us ↗techcrunch.com · 2011-05-24
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- A History of Silicon Valley ↗www.scaruffi.com · 2020-01-05
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- Y Combinator's Stake in OpenAI (0.6%?) ↗daringfireball.net · 2026-05-05
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- AI Is Destroying the University and Learning Itself ↗www.currentaffairs.org · 2025-12-02
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- A History of Silicon Valley ↗www.scaruffi.com · 2020-01-05
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- Continuous batching to increase LLM inference throughput and reduce p50 latency ↗www.anyscale.com · 2023-08-15
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- A History of Silicon Valley ↗www.scaruffi.com · 2020-01-05
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- A History of Silicon Valley ↗www.scaruffi.com · 2020-01-05
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- AI Is Destroying the University and Learning Itself ↗www.currentaffairs.org · 2025-12-02
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- The people who actually want AI to replace humanity ↗www.vox.com · 2026-05-31
- "Accelerationism" is an overdue corrective to years of gloom ↗www.thenewatlantis.com · 2024-02-12
- Y Combinator CEO Garry Tan’s War on San Francisco Politics Has Only Just Begun ↗sfstandard.com · 2023-09-27
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- Sam Altman’s Worldcoin wants to scan eyeballs in exchange for crypto ↗techcrunch.com · 2021-10-21
- The Making of Dario Amodei ↗www.bigtechnology.com · 2025-07-29
- Oxford shuts down institute run by Elon Musk-backed philosopher ↗www.theguardian.com · 2024-04-19
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- Jessica Livingston Interviews Sam Altman on YC, OpenAI, and Boardroom Coup [pdf] ↗www.thesocialradars.com · 2025-03-12
- Did Sam Altman make YC better or worse? ↗techcrunch.com · 2019-03-12
- A student's guide to startups (2006) ↗www.paulgraham.com · 2023-03-27
- Rejected Then Recruited: Our Journey into Y Combinator ↗repl.it · 2018-09-26
- Paul Graham on Conversations with Tyler ↗conversationswithtyler.com · 2023-08-10
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- A History of Silicon Valley ↗www.scaruffi.com · 2020-01-05
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- The Silicon Valley Loop ↗nymag.com · 2023-02-16
- Y Combinator and Power in Silicon Valley ↗commoncog.com · 2024-12-03
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- A History of Silicon Valley ↗www.scaruffi.com · 2020-01-05
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- Inside OpenAI ↗www.wired.com · 2016-04-27
- Transformers.js – Run Transformers directly in the browser ↗github.com · 2024-04-11
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- ‘People don’t get the power of the podcast. But Trump does’: broadcaster-turned-investor Harry Stebbings ↗www.theguardian.com · 2024-11-19
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- OpenAI is Visa – Buttering up the government to retain a monopoly ↗sherwood.news · 2024-12-26
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- A History of Silicon Valley ↗www.scaruffi.com · 2020-01-05
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WIKIDATA-CONFIRMED IDENTITY Wikipedia: Sam Altman ↗
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- hn · 2023-11-17OpenAI's board has fired Sam Altman ↗
- hn · 2026-04-06Sam Altman may control our future – can he be trusted? ↗
- hn · 2024-05-22Leaked OpenAI documents reveal aggressive tactics toward former employees ↗