Sam Altman

Founder & CEO

Former president of Y Combinator and co-founder of location-sharing app Loopt. Co-chaired OpenAI at its founding in 2015, became full-time CEO in 2019. Briefly fired by OpenAI's board in November 2023, reinstated days later after near-total employee revolt.

Overview

Companies
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Roles
Founder & CEO

Companies

1 company
OpenAI $167.9B
Private Founder & CEO

AI research company building artificial general intelligence, creator of ChatGPT, GPT-4, DALL-E, and the OpenAI API platform.

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