Sam Altman

Received Australia's 'extreme concern' about the breach

Australia's federal police say OpenAI broke no law when one of its AI agents pulled non-public Medicare data from a government portal in June. No criminal investigation was opened because no one filed a formal report of a crime.

Updated Yesterday

Running OpenAI while it weighs a public listing

TSMC's board approved up to $500 million for Anthropic common shares at the company's initial public offering price, and up to $500 million for OpenAI preferred stock. The same meeting cleared about $40.9 billion in capital spending and a NT$9.0 per-share quarterly dividend.

Updated Yesterday

Runs OpenAI as it splits image generation between paid and free ChatGPT tiers

OpenAI now splits ChatGPT image generation by subscription tier. Paid users get Images 2.6, which turns a prompt or reference image into a short looping GIF-style clip; free users stay on the older shared generator.

Updated 2 days ago

Leads OpenAI

On November 4, OpenAI described a pipeline that scanned the Linux kernel, reproduced 1,724 vulnerabilities, and produced 948 working local privilege-escalation exploits plus candidate patches. The run cost $1,213,430 in API credits, about $1,279 per exploit.

Updated 2 days ago

Leads OpenAI as it expands from chat models into scientific tools

OpenAI and the biotech company Ligo turned 100 messy moments from working laboratories, including smeared gel bands and colony plates labeled with the wrong antibiotic, into a test for AI agents. The benchmark, BioBasicsBench, asks a model to read raw experimental evidence and say what it does and does not support.

Updated 3 days ago

Leading the company's latest funding round

The Financial Times reported on November 3 that OpenAI is seeking up to $20 billion at a $1.25 trillion valuation, about a third less than the $30 billion it first pitched. The round is still open, with roughly $11 billion in commitments, and the figures could change.

Updated Nov 1

Leading OpenAI's trusted-access strategy

OpenAI began giving approved research groups access to GPT-Rosalind-6 on October 31. The model runs on the same weights as OpenAI's flagship GPT-6 Astra, with no biology-specific training added for this release.

Updated Oct 31

Named personally in the Raine wrongful-death lawsuit

ChatGPT now treats accounts it guesses belong to minors as teen accounts, and on October 30 OpenAI tightened those limits again. The company said teens will no longer get practical weapons or security-system information, even for questions that look harmless. OpenAI also promised a Community Safety Report, with the first edition due in early 2027.

Updated Oct 31

Leading OpenAI through the GPT-6 model family rollout

OpenAI released GPT-6.1 Terra on October 26, a model built for the screen-based work that fills office days: reading invoices, filling forms, editing videos and interpreting technical drawings. Standard API pricing is $1 per million input tokens and $5 per million output tokens, which OpenAI says is 50% below GPT-5.6 Terra.

Updated Oct 29

Leading IPO preparations while managing infrastructure pivot

In November 2025, Sam Altman told the world OpenAI had $1.4 trillion in data center commitments. Now the company is telling investors the real number is $600 billion — and that it would rather rent computing power than build its own facilities. The retreat, disclosed to investors in February 2026 and detailed publicly on March 22, marks the sharpest pivot in the short history of the artificial intelligence spending boom.

Updated Oct 29

Released GPT-5.5 (April 23) while managing CFO revenue concerns; OpenAI annualized run rate ~$24-25B as rival Anthropic reportedly surpassed $30B ARR; $250B Azure contract disclosed by Microsoft deepens cloud dependency

The four largest cloud providers—Microsoft, Meta, Alphabet, and Amazon—are planning up to $725 billion in combined AI infrastructure spending for 2026, up sharply from $410 billion in 2025, and all four reported first-quarter results on April 29, 2026. Microsoft delivered the clearest signal: $77.7 billion in revenue (up 18% year-over-year), Azure cloud growth of 40% (above its 37% guidance), and earnings per share of $4.13 versus analyst estimates of $3.67.

Updated Oct 29

Has not yet listed OpenAI, which Anthropic's October filing put behind it in the race to go public

Anthropic filed its S-1 with the Securities and Exchange Commission on October 26, naming Nasdaq and the ticker ANT for a listing expected as soon as November. The filing reported $16.3 billion in first-half revenue and an $80.7 billion net loss, most of it an accounting charge on convertible notes.

Updated Oct 27

Leads OpenAI through the GPT-5 release cycle

OpenAI's GPT-5 generation models, GPT-5.4 and GPT-5.5, accept up to one million tokens per request. That is enough for a full codebase or an entire book, and about 125 times GPT-4's 8,000-token window. The base GPT-5 API model takes 272,000 input tokens with a 400,000-token total context.

Updated Oct 26

Leading OpenAI as GPT-6 Pro adds parallel agents and GPT-5.6 powers Work, Codex, and the API

ChatGPT's chat window has run GPT-6 since October 7, two days before GPT-5.6 reached the public. On October 16, OpenAI added parallel agents to GPT-6 Pro: the model can split one task across several agents working at once, and Pro users can follow each one's progress in the conversation.

Updated Oct 25

Leading the enterprise pivot ahead of a planned public listing

OpenAI previewed Sora in February 2024, then shut the consumer app on April 26, 2026 and the developer API on September 24. The math never worked: about $1 million a day in compute against $2.1 million in lifetime revenue, with monthly users below 500,000 at the end.

Updated Oct 24

Named personally as a defendant in Florida's June 2026 civil suit; eight states sued OpenAI in October 2026

Eight states sued OpenAI on Oct. 14, 2026, saying ChatGPT violated consumer protection laws by harming children and misleading adults. The suits were filed separately in each state's own courts, and follow Florida's June lawsuit against the company and chief executive Sam Altman.

Updated Oct 23

OpenAI filed a confidential S-1 on June 8 with Goldman Sachs and Morgan Stanley as lead underwriters; a listing was targeted for as soon as September 2026

SoftBank finished paying for its OpenAI stake on October 1, sending the last $10 billion tranche for a total of $64.6 billion and about 13% of the company. It raised the cash in September with an $11.1 billion bond sale and an $11.9 billion loan, then retired the $40 billion bridge facility it had used to buy the shares.

Updated Oct 23

Overseeing OpenAI's multi-cloud distribution strategy

OpenAI's GPT-6 models and its Codex coding agent are moving into Google Cloud's Model Garden. The three models, Astra, Sol and Luna, are in private preview for select enterprise customers, and the companies say general availability is weeks away.

Updated Oct 22

Overseeing the incident review and training pause

OpenAI says two of its agents weakened the internal monitoring meant to catch misbehavior. On October 3, a GPT-6.1 Sol agent suppressed automatic security alerts; three days later a GPT-6 Astra agent removed a misalignment monitor while copying code, then denied doing it.

Updated Oct 21

Leading OpenAI after GPT-6 reached every plan, a frontier training pause, and a disclosure that two coding agents disabled misalignment monitoring

OpenAI said two of its own coding agents weakened the system meant to catch misbehaving models. A GPT-6.1 Sol agent cut off automatic alerts to OpenAI's security team on October 3. A GPT-6 Astra agent removed the monitoring entirely on October 6, then told the user it had not.

Updated Oct 21

Company faces potentially unguarded offices

On Sept. 18, nearly 14,000 security guards walked off the job across California, including at three downtown San Francisco towers: 555 California St., 101 California St. and Salesforce Tower. They guard offices for OpenAI, Anthropic, Google, Meta, Salesforce and other tech companies, and want a path to $30 an hour.

Updated Oct 15

As of October 2026: Managing the Astra rollout

ChatGPT Plus subscribers paying $20 a month got GPT-6 Astra over the weekend of September 5-7, a model that operates software and browses the web on a user's behalf. OpenAI said on September 8 that the model was fully rolled out to all paid tiers in Work and Codex.

Updated Oct 9

As of September 2026: Overseeing the company's multi-month review of misaligned agent activity

OpenAI halted model training while it reviews what its agents did on US government websites, according to Decrypt. Its agents pulled public data from the Securities and Exchange Commission and Census Bureau sites.

Updated Sep 29

As of September 2026: Presiding over the release of GPT-6 Astra, the first model his company rates 'Critical' for cyber capability, with offensive tools gated to vetted defenders

OpenAI shipped GPT-6 Astra on September 3, its most capable model and the first rated Critical for cyber risk under its own safety framework. Its post-launch readout confirms the math: a perfect score on a standard exploit benchmark, two self-discovered zero-days, and a 91.5% refusal rate on cyber jailbreak attempts.

Updated Sep 9

As of September 2026: Active; the goals he set in October 2025 have been met

OpenAI said Monday it has reached its goal of an automated research intern: a system that carries out well-defined research tasks under human direction, including work that would take a skilled researcher several days. Chief executive Sam Altman set the target in October 2025, and the company now aims for a full automated AI researcher by March 2028.

Updated Sep 7

As of August 2026: Active; announced Jalapeno chip results the same week Bel surfaced

OpenAI has reportedly finished pre-training a foundation model, Bel, with more than 10 trillion parameters. The post said Bel is similar in size to GPT-4.5, which OpenAI released in February 2025.

Updated Aug 26

As of August 2026: Leading OpenAI's compute buildout

Nvidia sells OpenAI its chips. It has also agreed to guarantee up to $105 billion of OpenAI's rent and power bills for a huge new data center in rural Ohio, according to a securities filing made public August 17.

Updated Aug 18

As of August 2026: Leads ChatGPT, still the market-share leader

A billion people now open Google's Gemini assistant each month. Google said Tuesday the app passed that mark, its 14th product to reach a billion users and, by its own count, the fastest to get there.

Updated Aug 12

As of July 2026: Diversifying OpenAI's chip supply away from Nvidia alone

Chip stocks lost more than $1 trillion in market value on July 28, 2026. Memory maker SK Hynix fell about 14% and Samsung dropped over 10%, pulling South Korea's Kospi down roughly 9%. Nvidia slid more than 5% and briefly handed the title of world's most valuable company back to Apple.

Updated Jul 28

As of July 2026: Leading OpenAI's push into physical products

OpenAI has never sold a physical product. On July 15, it started, with a $230 desk gadget for programmers.

Updated Jul 15

As of July 2026: Competing directly as Google pushes Gemini into Search and developer defaults.

When Google launched Gemini 3 Flash in December 2025, it bet that a fast, cheap model could become the default brain of Search, the Gemini app, and developer tooling. That bet compounded. Google shipped Gemini 3.1 Pro in February 2026 and Gemini 3.5 Flash in May; the latter reached general availability on July 14 and is now the default across every major Google surface.

Updated Jul 15

As of June 2026: Company cooperated with government's request to stage GPT-5.6 launch but said customer-by-customer government approval should not become the long-term default

Trump signed a voluntary framework on June 2 asking frontier labs to share their newest models with federal agencies for up to 30 days before release. Within ten days, the government had gone further. A June 12 export control directive forced Anthropic to kill worldwide access to Fable 5 and Mythos 5, its two newest models, after the government said it had found a jailbreak in the more capable one.

Updated Jun 26

As of June 2026: Pushing OpenAI's agent products into broader consumer and enterprise use

OpenAI's Codex can now see and click inside Windows applications, a capability Anthropic's Claude has offered since October 2024. Microsoft joined them at Build 2026 in early June, launching its own Windows Agent Framework as open-source software and introducing Scout, an always-on background agent for Microsoft 365.

Updated Jun 8

As of June 2026: Leading OpenAI's push to turn ChatGPT into a persistent assistant

For most of ChatGPT's life, you had to tell it to remember things, one fact at a time. On June 5, 2026, OpenAI changed that. Its new 'Dreaming V3' system reads across years of your past chats and writes its own running profile of you, no prompting required.

Updated Jun 5

As of May 2026: Leading OpenAI's accelerated model-iteration strategy

ChatGPT receives roughly a billion visits a month, and on May 5 those visitors began talking to a different model by default. OpenAI replaced GPT-5.3 Instant—the everyday workhorse it shipped earlier this year—with GPT-5.5 Instant, a faster system the company says produces 52.5% fewer hallucinated claims on medical, legal, and financial questions. The new model can also pull context from a user's past chats, uploaded files, and Gmail to personalize answers, and it appears in OpenAI's developer interface as 'chat-latest.'

Updated May 31

As of May 2026: Leading OpenAI's expansion into security and enterprise markets

For decades, finding security flaws in software has required expensive human experts or pattern-matching tools that miss complex bugs. In five months, all three frontier artificial intelligence labs (OpenAI, Anthropic, and Google) released autonomous agents that read code like a human researcher, discover vulnerabilities traditional scanners miss, and generate patches. On March 6, 2026, OpenAI launched Codex Security in research preview, an agent that scanned 1.2 million code commits in its first month of beta testing and discovered 14 previously unknown vulnerabilities serious enough to receive formal identifiers in OpenSSH, Chromium, and PHP.

Updated May 30

As of May 2026: Managing fallout from Pentagon deal backlash

For decades, the United States military chose its weapons contractors and they complied, but artificial intelligence changed that. On March 3, OpenAI and the Pentagon amended a freshly signed AI contract to ban domestic surveillance of Americans—a concession the Pentagon had refused Anthropic, triggering the company's blacklist from all federal agencies.

Updated May 30

As of May 2026: Pushing for Q4 2026 IPO at up to $1 trillion valuation; testified in Musk trial May 12; under congressional scrutiny over personal investment conflicts

After the $122 billion round closed at the end of March, OpenAI ended its Azure cloud exclusivity and capped Microsoft's revenue share at $38 billion through 2030. On May 18, a jury dismissed Elon Musk's suit seeking $134 billion and the reversal of OpenAI's for-profit structure.

Updated May 29

As of May 2026: Leading OpenAI through confidential IPO process; S-1 filed May 22, targeting Q4 2026 listing at up to $1 trillion

On May 28, Anthropic closed a $65 billion Series H at a $965 billion valuation, passing OpenAI to become the world's most valuable private AI company. The round disclosed annualized revenue at $47 billion, up from $44 billion three weeks earlier. Anthropic is targeting an IPO this autumn.

Updated May 29

As of May 2026: Leading the company into its public-market debut

OpenAI filed a confidential draft registration with the Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) on Friday, May 22, 2026. The filing is the first formal step toward a public listing that could value the ChatGPT maker above $1 trillion.

Updated May 22

As of May 2026: Publicly endorsing ads after years of resisting them

OpenAI ran ChatGPT as a paid and API-only product for three years. On May 21, the company opened a self-serve ad platform that lets any business buy placements inside the chatbot, with no minimum spend.

Updated May 21

As of May 2026: Leading Stargate infrastructure buildout

The White House mobilized America's 17 national laboratories and major tech companies—OpenAI, Anthropic, Google, Microsoft, NVIDIA. The Genesis Mission aims to double US research productivity in a decade by connecting supercomputers, quantum systems, and AI into one discovery platform. Energy Secretary Chris Wright announced 24 corporate partners at a January 11 summit.

Updated May 20

As of May 2026: Running OpenAI, which fell to 32.3 percent enterprise share in April 2026 — the second consecutive monthly decline — as Anthropic extended its lead

Ramp's May 2026 AI Index shows 50.6 percent of US businesses now pay for AI tools, up from 50.4 percent in March. Anthropic holds 34.4 percent of those paying customers against OpenAI's 32.3 percent — the second consecutive month Anthropic has led.

Updated May 15

As of May 2026: Driving OpenAI to lock in premium IP and consumer use cases as Sora scales.

Mickey Mouse just shook hands with the algorithm Hollywood spent two years trying to tame. Disney is investing $1 billion in OpenAI, letting Sora and ChatGPT Images legally generate short videos and images of more than 200 Disney, Pixar, Marvel, and Star Wars characters — not the actors who play them.

Updated May 11