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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- Claude Values Across Models and Languages — Anthropic’s Four-Axis Study (July 2026) →
Sonnet 4.6 leans warm and deferential; Opus 4.7 leans cautious and candid. Hindi and Arabic skew warmth; English and Russian skew rigor — Anthropic’s new value profiling on 300K+ Claude.ai chats. explainx.ai explains what to do with it.
- Demis Hassabis Frontier AI Framework — AGI Timelines and the Dawning of a New Age →
Google DeepMind CEO Demis Hassabis dropped a long-form X Article arguing AGI is probably only a few short years away — while X's news tab merged his essay with Rational Aussie's claim that AGI eliminates Canva-and-LinkedIn marketing jobs within five years. explainx.ai unpacks timelines, job displacement, and governance.
- We Must Act Now — 200+ Economists Warn on AI Job Displacement →
An 88-word open letter from Stanford's Digital Economy Lab landed July 13 with 16 Nobel laureates and lab leaders from Google, Anthropic, and OpenAI — calling for guardrails before large-scale job displacement. explainx.ai unpacks who signed, what it demands, and what it leaves out.
- ChatGPT Work vs Codex: What Actually Changes (Help Center + r/codex Explained) →
Work is for deliverables; Codex is for repos. Reddit says the split feels like branding — same agent, different prompts. explainx.ai explains what changes in the backend, what burns quota, and when to ignore Work mode.
- Apple Sues OpenAI, Tang Tan, and Chang Liu Over AI Hardware Trade Secrets →
Apple's 41-page federal complaint names io Products, Tang Tan as Chief Hardware Officer, and five trade-secret categories. Updated Aug 4 with OpenAI's "Apple is getting this wrong" rebuttal — wrong-person email, iMessage exhibits, and injunction pushback.
- “I Won’t Go Back to Opus”: Fable Churn Threats Before July 13 Credits Cliff →