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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- Grok 4.5 in Cursor: SpaceXAI MoE Model — Benchmarks, Pricing, Cyber Guards →
Cursor's July 8 blog confirms Grok 4.5 live in the IDE — joint SpaceXAI training, broad STEM mix beyond Composer 2.5's coding focus, double usage week one. Benchmarks vs Opus 4.8, GPT-5.5, Fable 5 — plus CursorBench contamination note.
- AI and Homework: House Rules That Actually Work →
"Everyone uses it anyway" is true, which is exactly why your family needs rules that are better than "don't." The tutor-not-ghostwriter line, the explain-it-back test, and a homework framework kids actually accept as fair.
- Why Did Tesla Cap AI Spending at $200 Per Week? Cost Math and the End of Unchecked Token Burn →
Starting July 6, Tesla limits each employee to $200 per week on AI coding tools — with manager sign-off for more. It is the latest enterprise pullback after unchecked usage spiked bills. Is $200/week generous or a verdict on LLM ROI?
- Anthropic Overtakes OpenAI in U.S. Business Adoption: Ramp AI Index Explained (2026) →
For the first time, more U.S. businesses on Ramp pay for Anthropic than OpenAI — 34.4% vs 32.3% in April 2026, with Anthropic quadrupling share in a year while OpenAI grew 0.3%. The viral X thread tied it to loop engineering and Dario Amodei's claim that some Anthropic engineers barely write code anymore. Here is what the index actually counts, what it does not, and why workflow beats chat.
- Indian Workers Are Wearing Cameras to Train Humanoid Robots — And May Be Training Their Replacements →
From garment factories in Tamil Nadu to homes in Hyderabad, thousands of Indian workers are strapping on head-mounted cameras to record their daily tasks. The footage trains the Large Behaviour Models powering the next generation of humanoid robots — robots that may ultimately replace the same workers doing the recording.
- Dario Amodei Warned Against GPT-2 in 2019. Now He's at the Centre of the Open-Source AI War. →