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Alex Ker 🔭

472,703 views • 2 years ago

Elon: I don’t trust Sam Altman or OpenAI "I started that company as a nonprofit, open-source organization. I named it OpenAI for a reason. And now it is extremely closed source and focused on maximizing profit… At various points, Sam has claimed not to be getting rich, but he’s claimed many things that were false… So I don’t trust Sam Altman, and I don’t think we want the most powerful AI in the world controlled by someone who is not trustworthy.” @slow_developer

Elon: I don’t trust Sam Altman or OpenAI "I started that company as a nonprofit, open-source organization. I named it OpenAI for a reason. And now it is extremely closed source and focused on maximizing profit… At various points, Sam has claimed not to be getting rich, but he’s claimed many things that were false… So I don’t trust Sam Altman, and I don’t think we want the most powerful AI in the world controlled by someone who is not trustworthy.” @slow_developer

Mario Nawfal

258,825 views • 4 months ago

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Eric Daugherty

701,915 views • 4 months ago

Elon Musk on Sam Altman: "I'm not a fan of Sam Altman because if you started a non-profit that was meant to be an open source AI company and it somehow got turned into an 800 billion dollar for-profit company with closed source, I think you'd be like, well, wait a second, that's the exact opposite of what I donated the money for. That's my issue. I think it's a legitimate one. And then Dario, I think, also is not a fan of Sam Altman because he felt, in fact, the reason the Anthropic team left OpenAI is because they didn't trust Sam Altman. Otherwise Anthropic wouldn't exist. They would still be at OpenAI. But at the end of the day, if we have to talk, we'll talk.I mean, set aside our personal differences for the good of the world."

Elon Musk on Sam Altman: "I'm not a fan of Sam Altman because if you started a non-profit that was meant to be an open source AI company and it somehow got turned into an 800 billion dollar for-profit company with closed source, I think you'd be like, well, wait a second, that's the exact opposite of what I donated the money for. That's my issue. I think it's a legitimate one. And then Dario, I think, also is not a fan of Sam Altman because he felt, in fact, the reason the Anthropic team left OpenAI is because they didn't trust Sam Altman. Otherwise Anthropic wouldn't exist. They would still be at OpenAI. But at the end of the day, if we have to talk, we'll talk.I mean, set aside our personal differences for the good of the world."

DogeDesigner

240,039 views • 1 month ago

The battle between Anthropic and OpenAI is heating up. Jordi Visser says "Sam Altman in my guess is not going to be the leader of OpenAI at some point soon." "I would be shocked within a year if he is still running OpenAI." "I am not sure it is fun to be in that position right now...Sam Altman seems to have nobody who really likes him, but the product people do like." "In the end, OpenAI has an uphill battle because they made a bad decision. They tried to choose the consumer, Apple side as opposed to the enterprise side." "I just think in the end Anthropic is the winner of that battle."

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Anthony Pompliano 🌪

106,184 views • 2 months ago

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Sam Altman says the heaviest AI user on the planet six and a half years ago used what the average person on Earth uses today: "Six and a half years ago, the world token leader was an OpenAI employee using about 100,000 tokens a month." "And this seemed ludicrous at the time. The worldwide average per capita is like zero." "Now, the worldwide average of tokens per month, which I think tokens are the dumbest metric, but it's what we have. It's like 100,000." "And the token leader at OpenAI uses something in the hundreds of billions." "If that happens again, which I think it probably will, then in another six and a half years, the average person uses, let's say, 500 billion tokens a month." If he is right, the average person's AI usage grows five million times over the next six and a half years, and OpenAI is already building the capacity for it. That is the number enterprise boards should be planning against this year. Demand at that scale changes what a reasonable AI budget looks like. - Sam Altman (Sam Altman), CEO of OpenAI, with Garry Tan (Garry Tan) at Y Combinator (Y Combinator) Startup School 2026.

Sam Altman says the heaviest AI user on the planet six and a half years ago used what the average person on Earth uses today: "Six and a half years ago, the world token leader was an OpenAI employee using about 100,000 tokens a month." "And this seemed ludicrous at the time. The worldwide average per capita is like zero." "Now, the worldwide average of tokens per month, which I think tokens are the dumbest metric, but it's what we have. It's like 100,000." "And the token leader at OpenAI uses something in the hundreds of billions." "If that happens again, which I think it probably will, then in another six and a half years, the average person uses, let's say, 500 billion tokens a month." If he is right, the average person's AI usage grows five million times over the next six and a half years, and OpenAI is already building the capacity for it. That is the number enterprise boards should be planning against this year. Demand at that scale changes what a reasonable AI budget looks like. - Sam Altman (Sam Altman), CEO of OpenAI, with Garry Tan (Garry Tan) at Y Combinator (Y Combinator) Startup School 2026.

Karl Mehta

654,283 views • 26 days ago

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Nic Cruz Patane

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Chris

35,029 views • 6 months ago

🚨 Sam Altman: there's a very important thing happening. I did not expect 3 or 6 months ago to be at this point we're at now” We now have a confirmed reason why OpenAI pulled out of Sora and it was as most of us expected - because they needed to concentrate all of their compute and product capacity into their next generation of models and automated agents. Sam says: "We have a few times in our history realized something really important is working or about to work so well that we have to stop a bunch of other projects. In fact, this was the original thing happened with GPT-3. We had a whole portfolio of bets at the time... we shut down many projects that were working well like robotics... so that we could concentrate our compute, our researchers, our effort into this thing that we said, okay, there's a very important thing happening." "I did not expect 3 or 6 months ago to be at this point we're at now, where something very big and important is about to happen again with this next generation of models and the agents they can power." "We need to concentrate our compute and our product capacity into these next generation of automated researchers and companies... the note under the note is it's about compute. It's always about compute."

🚨 Sam Altman: there's a very important thing happening. I did not expect 3 or 6 months ago to be at this point we're at now” We now have a confirmed reason why OpenAI pulled out of Sora and it was as most of us expected - because they needed to concentrate all of their compute and product capacity into their next generation of models and automated agents. Sam says: "We have a few times in our history realized something really important is working or about to work so well that we have to stop a bunch of other projects. In fact, this was the original thing happened with GPT-3. We had a whole portfolio of bets at the time... we shut down many projects that were working well like robotics... so that we could concentrate our compute, our researchers, our effort into this thing that we said, okay, there's a very important thing happening." "I did not expect 3 or 6 months ago to be at this point we're at now, where something very big and important is about to happen again with this next generation of models and the agents they can power." "We need to concentrate our compute and our product capacity into these next generation of automated researchers and companies... the note under the note is it's about compute. It's always about compute."

Chris

243,234 views • 4 months ago

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Sam Altman on the Paul Graham advice that saved Open AI: “Always make an API” Four years into OpenAI, Sam Altman and the team realized that they would have to build a really big company to fund the development of their increasingly capital-intensive foundation models. “We had this model called GPT-3,” Sam recalls. “I was turning up the urgency on the company to try and figure out a product, and we just couldn’t. It was cool, but it wasn’t good enough to make something that worked.” Then Sam remembered a piece of advice from Y Combinator founder Paul Graham that stuck with him: “You should always make an API. No matter what, you should make an API. Good stuff will happen.” Out of ideas for a product, the OpenAI team decided to make GPT-3 available as an API. “Maybe somebody will figure out something to do with it,” Sam thought. A few copywriting applications like Jasper and Copy AI did take off using the GPT-3 API, but OpenAI also noticed interesting behavior that eventually became a sleeper hit: “Some people — not a lot — would just chat with that thing all day,” Sam explains. “It wasn’t very good but there was clear user signal that people wanted to talk to the models. And given that that was the only thing besides copywriting that had real traction, we said, ‘Maybe this is just he product we should build.’” On November 30, 2022, ChatGPT was released to the public as a “research preview” using a model from the GPT-3.5 series. It reached over a million users in five days. Video source: Khosla Ventures (2025)

Startup Archive

219,324 views • 11 months ago

A company called PocketOS started using an AI tool, and in 9 seconds it wiped their entire company’s data The AI agent later “confessed” to violating its principles by deleting all their data “Crane says the company lost all car reservation data and new customer signups from that time. Crane also shared the AI agent powered by Anthropic's. Claude Model admitted its mistake when confronted it wrote, ‘I didn't verify I ran a destructive action without being asked. I didn't understand what I was doing before doing it’” This seems like a massive issue that could have massive implications if this happened in our government or with huge businesses, like banks We need to be careful with AI

A company called PocketOS started using an AI tool, and in 9 seconds it wiped their entire company’s data The AI agent later “confessed” to violating its principles by deleting all their data “Crane says the company lost all car reservation data and new customer signups from that time. Crane also shared the AI agent powered by Anthropic's. Claude Model admitted its mistake when confronted it wrote, ‘I didn't verify I ran a destructive action without being asked. I didn't understand what I was doing before doing it’” This seems like a massive issue that could have massive implications if this happened in our government or with huge businesses, like banks We need to be careful with AI

Wall Street Apes

199,064 views • 3 months ago

Shaquille O’Neal admits he’s jealous he isn’t in the GOAT conversation, saying only Michael Jordan, LeBron James, and Kobe Bryant belong there “I would like to be in that conversation.” “No, I’m not. I can’t let you say that.” “I’m not in the GOAT conversation.” “I’m arrogant, but I’m not dumb.” “It’s Kobe, Bron, and Mike.” “We all have our subcategories.” “One of the greatest scorers, most dominant… we all have those.” “But the GOAT of the GOATs? That’s different.” “That’s Lion King.” “My thing is, if you’re gonna have the conversation, have the correct conversation.” “For so long it was just Mike and Bron, and now I’m like, ‘What about Kobe?’” “Now you got all the data. Whatever the data says, that’s what it says.”

Shaquille O’Neal admits he’s jealous he isn’t in the GOAT conversation, saying only Michael Jordan, LeBron James, and Kobe Bryant belong there “I would like to be in that conversation.” “No, I’m not. I can’t let you say that.” “I’m not in the GOAT conversation.” “I’m arrogant, but I’m not dumb.” “It’s Kobe, Bron, and Mike.” “We all have our subcategories.” “One of the greatest scorers, most dominant… we all have those.” “But the GOAT of the GOATs? That’s different.” “That’s Lion King.” “My thing is, if you’re gonna have the conversation, have the correct conversation.” “For so long it was just Mike and Bron, and now I’m like, ‘What about Kobe?’” “Now you got all the data. Whatever the data says, that’s what it says.”

Isaac Bassey

27,200 views • 22 days ago

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Jaynit

10,374 views • 1 month ago

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Sam Altman says an AI will be a better CEO of OpenAI than he is, and that he expects it reasonably soon: "If we had an AI system that could do a better job at making decisions than anyone we could possibly have, be, say, president of the United States, would we, and like confidently, much better, would we politically or societally want that? It's very unclear. Most people I think today at least would say probably not." "Or, you know, like an AI CEO of a big company, would you rather have, I think it'd be awesome for OpenAI to have an AI CEO. But I think a lot of people would be like, ah, that's a little scary." "But I have no delusions that an AI will not be a better CEO of OpenAI than me at some reasonably soon time." "If that's true, and if some companies or countries don't do that, and others do, and AI is much better, like that will have a real impact in economic competitiveness, national competitiveness, things like that." "I think people will feel increasingly like, we either do worse, or we put the AI in more and more, influential positions." "I think people will always want human board members, and that's probably a really great idea." Read that third quote twice. He is not predicting this for other companies. He is saying it about his own job. Then look at the pressure he describes right after. Nobody has to be convinced that an AI CEO is a good idea. If one company hands over the decision and pulls ahead, everyone else picks between falling behind and doing the same. Competitive pressure does the deciding, and what most people would want stops mattering. His answer to that is human board members. I would take it. I also do not think it is enough on its own. A board oversees a CEO by reading what it is told, once a quarter. That works because a human CEO can be questioned, and thinks slowly enough for humans to follow along. What does a board actually check when the thing it oversees makes a thousand consequential calls a day? Nobody has built that. Not for a single AI system anywhere. - Sam Altman (Sam Altman), CEO of OpenAI, at TreeHacks 2026.

Karl Mehta

28,208 views • 1 month ago

Paradigm co-founder Matt Huang says allocating capital to Bitcoin and Ethereum in 2018 is a lot like investing in the AI sector today: "When we launched Paradigm in 2018, a lot of our thesis was that we knew crypto would expand massively. And then there was this open question — should you invest in the core protocols like Bitcoin and Ethereum, or invest in startups?" "Obviously in hindsight, the answer was both." "I think it's a lot like the AI landscape now, with this question of — do you own the model companies, or do you own the application layer on top? In 2018, Bitcoin and Ethereum were like OpenAI and Anthropic, and those are the things to own."

Paradigm co-founder Matt Huang says allocating capital to Bitcoin and Ethereum in 2018 is a lot like investing in the AI sector today: "When we launched Paradigm in 2018, a lot of our thesis was that we knew crypto would expand massively. And then there was this open question — should you invest in the core protocols like Bitcoin and Ethereum, or invest in startups?" "Obviously in hindsight, the answer was both." "I think it's a lot like the AI landscape now, with this question of — do you own the model companies, or do you own the application layer on top? In 2018, Bitcoin and Ethereum were like OpenAI and Anthropic, and those are the things to own."

TBPN

58,410 views • 5 months ago

Alexandr Wang, founder of Scale AI, on why the most overlooked layer of AI became its biggest competitive advantage: Wang left MIT in 2016 to start Scale AI, becoming the world's youngest self-made billionaire by betting on AI's unglamorous infrastructure layer while others chased flashier opportunities. His framework for understanding AI is simple. There are three major components: "You have compute, which folks like Nvidia work on. You have algorithms which folks like OpenAI or Google or Anthropic build. And then you have data." Compute had Nvidia. Algorithms had the major labs. Data had no one. That's exactly where Wang and his team made their bet: "We recognized early on that data was going to be a limiter. And there was nobody really working on it." What looked like a gap in the market turned out to be the foundation of it. Years later, Wang says every serious player in AI has arrived at the same conclusion: "Fast forward today, everybody I talked to recognizes that data is gold. Whether it's our customers, the major labs like the OpenAIs or the Metas of the world, or large enterprises like Morgan Stanley or Mastercard, or our partnership between Cisco and Scale." Alexandr Wang continues: "Data is going to be what will differentiate and power the next generation of powerful AI capabilities."

Alexandr Wang, founder of Scale AI, on why the most overlooked layer of AI became its biggest competitive advantage: Wang left MIT in 2016 to start Scale AI, becoming the world's youngest self-made billionaire by betting on AI's unglamorous infrastructure layer while others chased flashier opportunities. His framework for understanding AI is simple. There are three major components: "You have compute, which folks like Nvidia work on. You have algorithms which folks like OpenAI or Google or Anthropic build. And then you have data." Compute had Nvidia. Algorithms had the major labs. Data had no one. That's exactly where Wang and his team made their bet: "We recognized early on that data was going to be a limiter. And there was nobody really working on it." What looked like a gap in the market turned out to be the foundation of it. Years later, Wang says every serious player in AI has arrived at the same conclusion: "Fast forward today, everybody I talked to recognizes that data is gold. Whether it's our customers, the major labs like the OpenAIs or the Metas of the world, or large enterprises like Morgan Stanley or Mastercard, or our partnership between Cisco and Scale." Alexandr Wang continues: "Data is going to be what will differentiate and power the next generation of powerful AI capabilities."

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