Sam Altman Profile
Sam Altman

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Sam Altman
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no thank you but we will buy twitter for $9.74 billion if you want.
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Sam Altman
2 months
can yall please chill on generating images this is insane our team needs sleep.
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1 year
first and last time i ever wear one of these
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Sam Altman
2 years
i loved my time at openai. it was transformative for me personally, and hopefully the world a little bit. most of all i loved working with such talented people. will have more to say about what’s next later. 🫡.
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Sam Altman
2 years
i love you all. today was a weird experience in many ways. but one unexpected one is that it has been sorta like reading your own eulogy while you’re still alive. the outpouring of love is awesome. one takeaway: go tell your friends how great you think they are.
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4 months
deepseek's r1 is an impressive model, particularly around what they're able to deliver for the price. we will obviously deliver much better models and also it's legit invigorating to have a new competitor! we will pull up some releases.
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4 months
funny, they never sent me one of these for contributing to democrats.
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Sam Altman
1 year
i love openai, and everything i’ve done over the past few days has been in service of keeping this team and its mission together. when i decided to join msft on sun evening, it was clear that was the best path for me and the team. with the new board and w satya’s support, i’m.
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Sam Altman
1 year
i love the openai team so much.
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Sam Altman
2 months
it's super fun seeing people love images in chatgpt. but our GPUs are melting. we are going to temporarily introduce some rate limits while we work on making it more efficient. hopefully won't be long!. chatgpt free tier will get 3 generations per day soon.
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4 months
watching @potus more carefully recently has really changed my perspective on him (i wish i had done more of my own thinking and definitely fell in the npc trap). i'm not going to agree with him on everything, but i think he will be incredible for the country in many ways!.
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1 year
for a long time i said that antisemitism, particularly on the american left, was not as bad as people claimed. i'd like to just state that i was totally wrong. i still don't understand it, really. or know what to do about it. but it is so fucked.
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Sam Altman
2 years
if i start going off, the openai board should go after me for the full value of my shares.
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3 months
welcome to the world, little guy!. he came early and is going to be in the nicu for awhile. he is doing well and it’s really nice to be in a little bubble taking care of him. i have never felt such love.
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Sam Altman
1 year
the mission continues.
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Satya Nadella
1 year
We remain committed to our partnership with OpenAI and have confidence in our product roadmap, our ability to continue to innovate with everything we announced at Microsoft Ignite, and in continuing to support our customers and partners. We look forward to getting to know Emmett.
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the chatgpt launch 26 months ago was one of the craziest viral moments i'd ever seen, and we added one million users in five days. we added one million users in the last hour.
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@sama Two golden retrievers podcasting on top of a mountain.
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2 months
>be me.>grind for a decade trying to help make superintelligence to cure cancer or whatever.>mostly no one cares for first 7.5 years, then for 2.5 years everyone hates you for everything.>wake up one day to hundreds of messages: "look i made you into a twink ghibli style haha".
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Sam Altman
2 years
ChatGPT launched on wednesday. today it crossed 1 million users!.
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Sam Altman
3 years
"Which is more important to you? A low public profile, or getting to enjoy shitposting on Twitter?"
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Sam Altman
11 months
very happy to be partnering with apple to integrate chatgpt into their devices later this year!. think you will really like it.
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Sam Altman
2 months
chatgpt image gen now rolled out to all free users!.
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1 year
❤️🫡❤️.
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OpenAI
1 year
We have reached an agreement in principle for Sam Altman to return to OpenAI as CEO with a new initial board of Bret Taylor (Chair), Larry Summers, and Adam D'Angelo. We are collaborating to figure out the details. Thank you so much for your patience through this.
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Sam Altman
18 days
goodbye, GPT-4. you kicked off a revolution. we will proudly keep your weights on a special hard drive to give to some historians in the future.
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Sam Altman
2 years
GPTs can save a lot of effort:
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Sam Altman
1 year
a year ago tonight we were probably just sitting around the office putting the finishing touches on chatgpt before the next morning’s launch. what a year it’s been….
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1 year
@sama A bicycle race on ocean with different animals as athletes riding the bicycles with drone camera view.
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Sam Altman
1 year
satya and my top priority remains to ensure openai continues to thrive. we are committed to fully providing continuity of operations to our partners and customers. the openai/microsoft partnership makes this very doable.
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3 months
GPT-4.5 is ready!. good news: it is the first model that feels like talking to a thoughtful person to me. i have had several moments where i've sat back in my chair and been astonished at getting actually good advice from an AI. bad news: it is a giant, expensive model. we.
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1 year
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1 year
muslim and arab (especially palestinian) colleagues in the tech community i've spoken with feel uncomfortable speaking about their recent experiences, often out of fear of retaliation and damaged career prospects. our industry should be united in our support of these colleagues;.
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Sam Altman
3 months
OPENAI ROADMAP UPDATE FOR GPT-4.5 and GPT-5:. We want to do a better job of sharing our intended roadmap, and a much better job simplifying our product offerings. We want AI to “just work” for you; we realize how complicated our model and product offerings have gotten. We hate.
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Sam Altman
6 years
It's gross seeing so many root against Tesla. Be the person on the side of the climate and innovation, not the person hoping to make money on puts. Also, betting against Elon is historically a mistake. and the best product usually wins.
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Sam Altman
1 year
we have more unity and commitment and focus than ever before. we are all going to work together some way or other, and i’m so excited. one team, one mission.
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Sam Altman
1 month
o3 and o4-mini are super good at coding, so we are releasing a new product, Codex CLI, to make them easier to use. this is a coding agent that runs on your computer. it is fully open source and available today; we expect it to rapidly improve.
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Sam Altman
2 months
what's happening with ai adoption in india right now is amazing to watch. we love to see the explosion of creativity--india is outpacing the world.
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Sam Altman
2 years
the first day of openai, seven years ago today
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Sam Altman
4 months
just one more mean tweet and then maybe you'll love yourself. .
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Sam Altman
4 months
today we launch deep research, our next agent. this is like a superpower; experts on demand!. it can go use the internet, do complex research and reasoning, and give you back a report. it is really good, and can do tasks that would take hours/days and cost hundreds of dollars.
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Sam Altman
1 year
movies are going to become video games and video games are going to become something unimaginably better.
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Sam Altman
2 years
great conversation with @narendramodi discussing india's incredible tech ecosystem and how the country can benefit from ai. really enjoyed all my meetings with people in the @PMOIndia.
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Sam Altman
1 year
vision pro is second most impressive tech since the iphone.
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Sam Altman
1 month
a few times a year i wake up early and can't fall back asleep because we are launching a new feature ive been so excited about for so long. today is one of those days!.
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Sam Altman
3 years
I think US college education is nearer to collapsing than it appears.
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Sam Altman
2 months
y'all are not ready for images v2. .
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Sam Altman
4 months
insane thing: we are currently losing money on openai pro subscriptions!. people use it much more than we expected.
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2 months
prompt: sam altman as a cricket player in anime style
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chatgpt plus is free for college students in the US and canada through may!.
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Sam Altman
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if you are not skillsmaxxing with o3 at minimum 3 hours every day, ngmi.
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Sam Altman
2 months
🇮🇳.
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MyGovIndia
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Main character? No. He’s the whole storyline. Experience through New India in Studio Ghibli strokes. #StudioGhibli.#PMModiInGhibli
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Sam Altman
4 months
next phase of the msft x oai partnership is gonna be much better than anyone is ready for!!
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Sam Altman
7 months
the best way to get good at something is usually to just practice actually doing the thing in question. a lot of very capable people outsmart themselves with complex plans that involve working a lot on fake prerequisites.
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Sam Altman
2 years
we are so back.
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OpenAI
2 years
ChatGPT can now browse the internet to provide you with current and authoritative information, complete with direct links to sources. It is no longer limited to data before September 2021.
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Sam Altman
6 months
which one is supposed to be the left-wing propaganda machine again?
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Sam Altman
1 month
we have greatly improved memory in chatgpt--it can now reference all your past conversations!. this is a surprisingly great feature imo, and it points at something we are excited about: ai systems that get to know you over your life, and become extremely useful and personalized.
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Sam Altman
4 months
My sister has filed a lawsuit against me. Here is a statement from my mom, brothers, and me:
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Sam Altman
1 month
change of plans: we are going to release o3 and o4-mini after all, probably in a couple of weeks, and then do GPT-5 in a few months. there are a bunch of reasons for this, but the most exciting one is that we are going to be able to make GPT-5 much better than we originally.
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Sam Altman
1 year
we'd like to show you what sora can do, please reply with captions for videos you'd like to see and we'll start making some!.
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Sam Altman
2 years
today we launched ChatGPT. try talking with it here: .
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Sam Altman
3 months
ok fine maybe we'll do a social app.
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Meta plans to release standalone Meta AI app in effort to compete with OpenAI's ChatGPT
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1 year
the openai leadership team, particularly mira brad and jason but really all of them, have been doing an incredible job through this that will be in the history books. incredibly proud of them.
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Sam Altman
4 months
twitter hype is out of control again. we are not gonna deploy AGI next month, nor have we built it. we have some very cool stuff for you but pls chill and cut your expectations 100x!.
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2 years
also, the video we made for dalle 3 is SO CUTE:
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❤️❤️❤️.
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Ilya Sutskever
1 year
I deeply regret my participation in the board's actions. I never intended to harm OpenAI. I love everything we've built together and I will do everything I can to reunite the company.
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congrats to President Trump. i wish for his huge success in the job.
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very glad President Trump is safe!.
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4 months
@elonmusk @OpenAI wrong, as you surely know. want to come visit the first site already under way?. this is great for the country. i realize what is great for the country isn't always what's optimal for your companies, but in your new role i hope you'll mostly put 🇺🇸 first.
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1 year
not gpt-5, not a search engine, but we’ve been hard at work on some new stuff we think people will love! feels like magic to me. monday 10am PT.
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OpenAI
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We’ll be streaming live on at 10AM PT Monday, May 13 to demo some ChatGPT and GPT-4 updates.
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1 year
this is the most interesting year in human history, except for all future years.
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Sam Altman
2 years
ChatGPT is incredibly limited, but good enough at some things to create a misleading impression of greatness. it's a mistake to be relying on it for anything important right now. it’s a preview of progress; we have lots of work to do on robustness and truthfulness.
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the last couple of GPT-4o updates have made the personality too sycophant-y and annoying (even though there are some very good parts of it), and we are working on fixes asap, some today and some this week. at some point will share our learnings from this, it's been interesting.
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4 months
o3-mini is out!. smart, fast model. available in ChatGPT and API. it can search the web, and it shows its thinking. available to free-tier users! click the "reason" button. with ChatGPT plus, you can select "o3-mini-high", which thinks harder and gives better answers.
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3 months
we put out an update to chatgpt (4o). it is pretty good. it is soon going to get much better, team is cooking.
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you can just do things.
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1 year
learning how to say something in 30 seconds that takes most people 5 minutes is a big unlock.
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5 months
we just launched two things:. o1, the smartest model in the world. smarter, faster, and more features (eg multimodality) than o1-preview. live in chatgpt now, coming to api soon. chatgpt pro. $200/month. unlimited usage and even-smarter mode for using o1. more benefits to come!.
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i always wanted to write a six-word story. here it is:.___. near the singularity; unclear which side.
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1 year
here is sora, our video generation model:. today we are starting red-teaming and offering access to a limited number of creators. @_tim_brooks @billpeeb @model_mechanic are really incredible; amazing work by them and the team. remarkable moment.
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Ilya and OpenAI are going to part ways. This is very sad to me; Ilya is easily one of the greatest minds of our generation, a guiding light of our field, and a dear friend. His brilliance and vision are well known; his warmth and compassion are less well known but no less.
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i try not to think about competitors too much, but i cannot stop thinking about the aesthetic difference between openai and google
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4 months
big news: the free tier of chatgpt is going to get o3-mini!. (and the plus tier will get tons of o3-mini usage).
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2 months
images in chatgpt are wayyyy more popular than we expected (and we had pretty high expectations). rollout to our free tier is unfortunately going to be delayed for awhile.
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chatgpt is great now. i sort of think we should put up the version from december of 2022 so people can see how far we've come! would feel so ancient.
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@sama A instructional cooking session for homemade gnocchi hosted by a grandmother social media influencer set in a rustic Tuscan country kitchen with cinematic lighting.
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Sam Altman
6 months
🎄🎅starting tomorrow at 10 am pacific, we are doing 12 days of openai. each weekday, we will have a livestream with a launch or demo, some big ones and some stocking stuffers. we’ve got some great stuff to share, hope you enjoy! merry christmas.
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hey i'm really sorry to keep hyping our own product but you really should get chatgpt plus and install the chrome extension for search. i am cheerfully the first to admit when we ship something that isn't very good, but this time it's. really good.
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2 years
society underestimates how much it owes elon for raising the collective ambition level at a time when optimism for the future was receding.
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we updated GPT-4o today! improved both intelligence and personality.
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1 year
openai is the most talented and nicest group of people i have ever seen in one place. working on the hardest, most interesting, and most important problems. with all the key resources in place. extremely focused on making AGI. you should perhaps considering joining us.
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i think this is gonna be more like the renaissance than the industrial revolution.
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2 years
colleges prioritized making people feel perfectly safe over everything else and produced a generation afraid to fail, and thus afraid to take risk, and thus on pace to accomplish extremely little.
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2 years
on absolutely no one's 2022 bingo card was "twitter becomes the hardest working tech company".
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7 years
If you are successful, it’s almost always because some people went out of their way to help you. You have a moral obligation to pay it forward.
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3 months
an idea for paid plans: your $20 plus subscription converts to credits you can use across features like deep research, o1, gpt-4.5, sora, etc. no fixed limits per feature and you choose what you want; if you run out of credits you can buy more. what do you think? good/bad?.
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1 year
all of this has happened before, all of this will happen again.
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Sam Altman
5 years
Let yourself occasionally get a little screwed in exchange for not having to live with your guard up all the time. It’s worth it.
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Sam Altman
2 years
here is GPT-4, our most capable and aligned model yet. it is available today in our API (with a waitlist) and in ChatGPT+. it is still flawed, still limited, and it still seems more impressive on first use than it does after you spend more time with it.
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3 months
trying GPT-4.5 has been much more of a "feel the AGI" moment among high-taste testers than i expected!.
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3 months
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