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Sam Altman

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Sam Altman
5 months
first and last time i ever wear one of these
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Sam Altman
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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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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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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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i love the openai team so much
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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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if i start going off, the openai board should go after me for the full value of my shares
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5 months
the mission continues
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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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@sama Two golden retrievers podcasting on top of a mountain
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Sam Altman
1 year
ChatGPT launched on wednesday. today it crossed 1 million users!
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1 year
"Which is more important to you? A low public profile, or getting to enjoy shitposting on Twitter?"
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5 months
❤️🫡❤️
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OpenAI
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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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GPTs can save a lot of effort:
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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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@sama A bicycle race on ocean with different animals as athletes riding the bicycles with drone camera view
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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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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
5 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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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 year
the first day of openai, seven years ago today
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vision pro is second most impressive tech since the iphone
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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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movies are going to become video games and video games are going to become something unimaginably better
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2 years
I think US college education is nearer to collapsing than it appears.
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Sam Altman
7 months
we are so back
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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
2 months
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
5 months
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
1 year
today we launched ChatGPT. try talking with it here:
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Sam Altman
7 months
also, the video we made for dalle 3 is SO CUTE:
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❤️❤️❤️
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Ilya Sutskever
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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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1 year
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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this is the most interesting year in human history, except for all future years
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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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@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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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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1 year
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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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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1 year
on absolutely no one's 2022 bingo card was "twitter becomes the hardest working tech company"
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6 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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2 months
all of this has happened before, all of this will happen again
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1 year
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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@sama A street-level tour through a futuristic city which in harmony with nature and also simultaneously cyperpunk / high-tech. The city should be clean, with advanced futuristic trams, beautiful fountains, giant holograms everywhere, and robots all over. Have the video be of a human…
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1 year
here is an alternative path for society: ignore the culture war. ignore the attention war. make safe agi. make fusion. make people smarter and healthier. make 20 other things of that magnitude.   start radical growth, inclusivity, and optimism.   expand throughout the universe.
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Sam Altman
4 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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@elonmusk anytime 🫡
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Sam Altman
3 years
Move faster. Slowness anywhere justifies slowness everywhere. 2021 instead of 2022. This week instead of next week. Today instead of tomorrow. Moving fast compounds so much more than people realize.
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i failed pretty hard at my first startup--it sucked!--and am doing pretty well on my second. the thing i wish someone told me during the first one is that no one else thinks about your failures as much as you do, and that as long as don't psych yourself out you can try again.
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one of the great pleasures in life is finding undiscovered talent, enabling them with high conviction, and watching them bend the trajectory of things
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@DermoreLEI i am jewish. i believe that antisemitism is a significant and growing problem in the world, and i see a lot of people in our industry sticking up for me, which i deeply appreciate. i see much less of that for muslims.
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“give yourself a lot of shots to get lucky” is even better advice than it appears on the surface. luck isn’t an independent variable but increases super-linearly with more surface area—you meet more people, make more connections between new ideas, learn patterns, etc.
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2 months
fk it why not 8
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one of the easiest policy wins i can imagine for the US is to reform high-skill immigration. the fact that many of the most talented people in the world want to be here is a hard-won gift; embracing them is the key to keeping it that way. hard to get this back if we lose it.
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1 year
we are starting our rollout of ChatGPT plugins. you can install plugins to help with a wide variety of tasks. we are excited to see what developers create!
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❤️
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Mira Murati
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OpenAI is nothing without its people
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we are pausing new ChatGPT Plus sign-ups for a bit :( the surge in usage post devday has exceeded our capacity and we want to make sure everyone has a great experience. you can still sign-up to be notified within the app when subs reopen.
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1 year
excited 4 today
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born too late to explore the earth, born...at the absolute coolest time in history, about to be able to explore absolutely everything else
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i know im not supposed to brag about openai, but the talent density at this scale (375 people) is 🤯 and i dont think has happened in the tech industry in recent memory
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7 years
Love these charts:
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1 year
microsoft, and particularly azure, don’t get nearly enough credit for the stuff openai launches. they do an amazing amount of work to make it happen; we are deeply grateful for the partnership. 🙏 they have built by far the best AI infra out there.
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2023: $30,000 to get a simple iPhone app created, $300 for a plumbing job. i wonder what those relative prices will look like in 2028! the likely coming divergence between changes to cognitive work and changes to physical work could be quite dramatic.
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GPTs are now live for all ChatGPT+ subscribers!
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we have re-enabled chatgpt plus subscriptions! 🎄 thanks for your patience while we found more gpus.
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3 months
openai now generates about 100 billion words per day. all people on earth generate about 100 trillion words per day.
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4 years
How To Be Successful (At Your Career, Twitter Edition)
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damn i love custom instructions
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it’s been a crazy year. i’m grateful that we put a tool out in the world that people really love and get so much benefit from. more than that, i am glad that 2023 was the year the world started taking AI seriously.
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you have a right to your actions, but never to your actions' fruits.
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ok cool will you do that for retail investors on the way down too?
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thanks a lot for these! some common requests: AGI (a little patience please) GPT-5 better voice mode higher rate limits better GPTs better reasoning control over degree of wokeness/behavior video personalization better browsing 'sign in with openai' open source
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what would you like openai to build/fix in 2024?
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1 year
a new version of moore’s law that could start soon: the amount of intelligence in the universe doubles every 18 months
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the way to succeed is to do the boring things extremely well
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you are listening to the new blink 182 album for the 17th time today and about to play the new mario with your friends who brought over mountain dew. you ordered dominos with a discount code your mom gave you, $10/pizza. the year is 2023, and you are 38 years old. life is good
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plans should be measured in decades, execution should be measured in weeks. you gotta have both.
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just spent a really nice few hours with @adamdangelo . happy thanksgiving from our families to yours! 🦃
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people have happily worked so hard to build stuff for you knowing they would never meet you just hoping that some of the people of the future would continue the quest and build the next branch of the tech tree
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good sign for the resilience and adaptability of people in the face of technological change: the turing test went whooshing by and everyone mostly went about their lives
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Prediction: AI will cause the price of work that can happen in front of a computer to decrease much faster than the price of work that happens in the physical world. This is the opposite of what most people (including me) expected, and will have strange effects.
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the GPT store is live! fun speculation last night about which GPTs will be doing the best by the end of today.
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we believe the world needs more ai infrastructure--fab capacity, energy, datacenters, etc--than people are currently planning to build. building massive-scale ai infrastructure, and a resilient supply chain, is crucial to economic competitiveness. openai will try to help!
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@sama a wizard wearing a pointed hat and a blue robe with white stars casting a spell that shoots lightning from his hand and holding an old tome in his other hand
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1 year
hello from redmond! excited for the event tomorrow
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is there a word for feeling nostalgic for the time period you’re living through at the time you’re living it?
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im personally getting way too much credit for openai. for a company like ours, the researchers and engineers that create the tech have far more impact than the ceo. if you want to congratulate someone, pick them! hard to overstate the collective talents of that group...
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"If you can't figure out what kind of work you like, pay attention to what's easy to concentrate on and gives you energy vs. what makes you tune out and feel tired" sounds obvious but remains some of the best advice I ever got.
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❤️🧡💛💚💙💜🖤🤍
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Sam Altman is back as CEO, Mira Murati as CTO and Greg Brockman as President. OpenAI has a new initial board. Messages from @sama and board chair @btaylor
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i’d bet even more true today!
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Somewhere in the world, an unknown young person is probably starting a company now that will eventually be as big as today's tech giants.
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the fight for the future is a struggle between technological-driven growth and managed decline. the growth path has inherent risks and challenges along with its fantastic upside, and the decline path has guaranteed long-term disaster. stasis is a myth.
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you’re supposed to pour your life force into something and it’s not supposed to always be easy
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there is a new version of GPT-4 Turbo now live in ChatGPT; you should hopefully find it a lot better! please let us know what you think.
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1 year
we know that ChatGPT has shortcomings around bias, and are working to improve it. but directing hate at individual OAI employees because of this is appalling. hit me all you want, but attacking other people here doesn’t help the field advance, and the people doing it know that.
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3 months
gpt-4 had a slow start on its new year's resolutions but should now be much less lazy now!
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Sam Altman
1 year
all ChatGPT Plus users getting browsing and plugins over the next week; hope you enjoy!
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We’re rolling out web browsing and Plugins to all ChatGPT Plus users over the next week! Moving from alpha to beta, they allow ChatGPT to access the internet and to use 70+ third-party plugins.
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a month ago the most exciting drama on tech twitter was elon and zuck fighting and now it’s that we are transfixed by maybe having an actual room temperature superconductor. we are so back?
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Bill Peebles
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welcome to bling zoo! this is a single video generated by sora, shot changes and all.
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every few weeks i have a moment where i still can't quite believe we actually made this:
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@WSJ Concerning
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a lot of crazy stories start with too much amphetamines and end with not enough psychedelics
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