Sam Altman

Here is a photo of my family.

We have been learning quickly from how people are using Sora and taking feedback from users, rightsholders, and other interested groups.

We are launching a new app called Sora.

Growth in the use of AI services has been astonishing; we expect it to be even more astonishing going forward.

AI has gotten remarkably better in recent years; ChatGPT can do amazing things that we take for granted.

We are past the event horizon; the takeoff has started.

Our mission is to ensure that AGI (Artificial General Intelligence) benefits all of humanity.

The second birthday of ChatGPT was only a little over a month ago, and now we have transitioned into the next paradigm of models that can do complex reasoning.

There are two things from our announcement today I wanted to highlight.

Optimism, obsession, self-belief, raw horsepower and personal connections are how things get started.

Helion has been progressing even faster than I expected and is on pace in 2024 to 1) demonstrate Q > 1 fusion and 2) resolve all questions needed to design a mass-producible fusion generator.

Today we did a research launch of DALL•E 2, a new AI tool that can create and edit images from natural language instructions.

I’m delighted to be investing more in Helion.

A founder recently asked me how to stop caring what other people think.

A lot of people want to replicate YC in some other industry or some other place or with some other strategy.

I spent many years working with founders and now I work with researchers.

Almost every company and non-profit working on COVID-19 that I offered to help asked for support with clinical trials—for companies focusing on developing novel drugs, vaccines, and diagnostics, rapidly spinning up trials is one of their biggest bottlenec…

The most common question prospective startup founders ask is how to get ideas for startups.

Experts on the COVID-19 pandemic seem to think there are three ways out—that is, for life, health, and the economy to return roughly to normal.

I’m trying to fund startups/projects helping with COVID-19, because it’s basically the one thing I know how to do that can help.

Although I still hope things will go differently, the experts I’ve spoken to think we are likely to face a global tragedy—hundreds of thousands of deaths from Covid-19.

The most counterintuitive secret about startups is that it’s often easier to succeed with a hard startup than an easy one.

There is a lot of advice about how to be a good startup founder.

I’ve observed thousands of founders and thought a lot about what it takes to make a huge amount of money or to create something important.

Today, OpenAI released a new result.

I am pretty sure cryptocurrency is here to stay in some form (at least as a store of value, which is the only use case we have seen work at scale so far).

I think I am at least somewhat more productive than average, and people sometimes ask me for productivity tips.

I made a point in this post inelegantly in a way that was easy to misunderstand, so I’d like to clarify it.

Earlier this year, I noticed something in China that really surprised me.

A popular topic in Silicon Valley is talking about what year humans and machines will merge (or, if not, what year humans will get surpassed by rapidly improving AI or a genetically enhanced species).