Sam Altman is CEO of OpenAI and the most influential figure in the artificial intelligence boom of the 2020s — overseeing the development of GPT-4, ChatGPT, DALL-E, and the Sora video model. Born in Chicago in 1985, Altman co-founded Loopt at 19 after dropping out of Stanford, then became president of Y Combinator from 2014 to 2019, mentoring hundreds of startups. He joined OpenAI as CEO in 2019 and guided it from a research nonprofit to the most consequential AI company in history. ChatGPT's launch in 2022 reached 100 million users faster than any product in history and ignited a global AI race across every major technology company.
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