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OpenAI ’ s CEO Sam Altman ’ s thoughts on the company ’ s revolutionary ChatGPT as a ‘ preview of progress ’ and how artificial general intelligence is the next breakthrough
Sam Altman is a technology entrepreneur and investor . Born in St . Louis , Missouri , he is the CEO of OpenAI , a research organisation that aims to advance artificial intelligence in a responsible and safe manner .
After dropping out of Stanford University as a computer science student in 2005 , Altman co-founded the location-based social networking company Loopt , which provided a service for smartphone users that allowed them to share their location selectively with other people and was acquired by Green Dot Corporation in 2012 .
He then served as the CEO of the technology incubator Y Combinator from 2014 to 2017 . During his tenure , Y Combinator funded and supported many successful startups , including Airbnb , Dropbox , and Reddit .
Altman has also been an investor in various technology companies through his investment firm , Altman Ventures . He has served on the boards of directors of companies
US $ 43.4mn
Loopt sold to Green Dot Corporation in 2012 2015 :
Formation of OpenAI announced by Altman , Elon Musk , Greg Brockman , Reid Hoffman , Jessica Livingston , Peter Thiel , Amazon Web Services , Infosys , and YC Research
such as OpenGov and Optimizely , and has advised numerous other startups .
As an advocate of nuclear energy , Altman is also chairman of the board for Helion and Oklo , two nuclear energy companies .
During the COVID-19 pandemic , Altman helped fund and create Project Covalence which aimed to help researchers rapidly launch clinical trials in partnership with TrialSpark a clinical trial startup .
Founding OpenAI With all his hard work at Y Combinator and YC Group , Altman was recognised as a top investor under 30 by Forbes in 2015 .
Setting his sights on founding his own company , Altman co-founded OpenAI in 2015 with Elon Musk and other entrepreneurs . To fully focus on his new company . Altman transitioned to Chairman of YC in 2019 .
Since OpenAI ’ s founding , Altman and his team have released GPT-3 , a language model trained on trillions of words from the Internet , the image creating tool DALLE 2 , and last year released to the public the ultra powerful AI chat bot ChatGPT .
16 February 2023