In the blog post The Gentle Singularity, OpenAI CEO Sam Altman painted a vision of the near future where AI quietly and benevolently transforms human life. There will be no sharp break, he suggests, only a steady, almost imperceptible ascent toward abundance. Intelligence will become as accessible as electricity. Robots will be performing useful real-world tasks by 2027. Scientific discovery will…
Sam Altman at TED 2025: Inside the most uncomfortable - and important - AI interview of the year
April 16, 2025
OpenAI CEO Sam Altman revealed that his company has grown to 800 million weekly active users and is experiencing “unbelievable” growth rates, during a sometimes tense interview at the TED 2025 conference in Vancouver last week.
“I have never seen growth in any company…
Deep Research Comes First: OpenAI to Launch O3 for All
February 13, 2025
Earlier this month, OpenAI debuted a new AI agent powered by its upcoming full o3 reasoning AI model called “Deep Research.”
As with Google’s Gemini-powered Deep Research agent released late last year, the idea behind OpenAI’s Deep Research is to provide a largely…
OpenAI CEO Sam Altman anticipates superintelligence soon, defends AI in rare personal blog post
September 25, 2024
OpenAI CEO Sam Altman penned a rare note on his website today spelling out more of his vision of the AI-powered future, or as he calls it (and his blog post is titled): “The Intelligence Age.“
Specifically, Sam Altman argues that “deep learning works,” and can generalize across a range of domains and difficult problem sets based on its training data, allowing people to “solve hard…
Sam Altman back at OpenAI: The craziest five days in Silicon Valley history | The DeanBeat
November 23, 2023
OpenAI has rotated through four CEOs in five days. I think that qualifies as the craziest five days in Silicon Valley history. Now fired CEO Sam Altman is back as the CEO of OpenAI again.
When the OpenAI board first fired Sam Altman as its CEO on the Friday before…
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OpenAI CEO Sam Altman soft-launched a global spring tour with an in-person meeting with Japan’s prime minister yesterday, during…