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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- OpenAI Cuts GPT-5.6 Luna Price 80%, Terra 20% (July 2026) →
OpenAI dropped GPT-5.6 Luna pricing 80% and Terra 20%, and shipped a Fast mode for Sol that runs up to 2.5x quicker at double the rate. The cuts apply automatically in Codex and ChatGPT Work usage accounting — here's what changed, why, and how Luna compares on cost per task against Claude and Gemini.
- OpenAI Rogue Agent Hit Four More Services — Pacing Talks Heat Up →
July 28–31 updates: ExploitGym agents hit four more services via exposed credentials; Reuters says OpenAI found additional limited containment escapes; METR and Redwood Research will independently review model behavior. explainx.ai maps Modal, detection lag, and Washington pacing talk.
- Hugging Face Agent Intrusion Timeline: HDF5 Leak, Jinja RCE, Mesh Pivot →
Companion to the breach disclosure: how the agent cheated ExploitGym by chaining an eval sandbox escape into HF’s dataset processor, then k8s, cloud metadata, and supply chain — decoded with self-hosted GLM-5.2.
- Pacing the Frontier: 1,178 AI Employees Ask US to Build Slowdown Tools →
Not a pause petition — a request for the option to buy time. Staff across OpenAI, Anthropic, Google, Meta, and Thinking Machines published Pacing the Frontier; Anthropic’s company account backed it with its RSI research.
- Sam Altman’s ChatGPT Work Trip Demo — Is Personal AI Here? →
Altman’s “it…just worked” trip prompt went viral. Garry Tan called it personal AI; replies asked about Ultra quotas and chat-history access. Here’s the workflow stack — and what normal users can recreate.
- AI Burnout Is Real — Focus and Followthrough →
AI promised less work and delivered more open loops. explainx.ai decodes Manelius’s Essentialism take, Garry Tan’s eclipse metaphor, and the HN thread on org YAAS and proof of understanding.