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Sam Altman

CEO at OpenAI

Trust Score88
High

About

CEO of OpenAI. Former president of Y Combinator. Leading the development of artificial general intelligence.

San Francisco, CA
Founder

Timeline

Angel Investor

Runway

2022-Present

Angel Investor

Vercel

2020-Present

Board Member & CEO

OpenAI

2019-Present

Y Combinator President → OpenAI CEO

OpenAI

2019-Present

Early Investor (via YC)

Scale AI

2016-Present

CEO

OpenAI

2015-Present

Early Investor (via YC)

Stripe

2011-Present

Top Signals

OpenAI and Anthropic co-publish AI safety evaluation framework

1 day ago

OpenAI files patent for reasoning architecture with verifiable chain-of-thought

2 days ago

OpenAI hiring 30 policy and safety researchers

10 days ago

OpenAI publishes GPT-5 technical report

14 days ago

OpenAI launches GPT-5 with real-time capabilities

14 days ago