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🚨 Sam Altman just called building Codex to beat Claude Code a "crazy kamikaze mission" OpenAI was "way behind." Every playbook said don't bother. Then his team did something he calls "very rare in the history of business" 🧵

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Sam Altman reveals building Codex was a "crazy kamikaze mission" to beat Claude Code and that most of the best coders he knows now use Codex. "We were way behind Claude Code, and it seemed like a kind of crazy kamikaze mission to try to beat them with a coding app." "The consensus is that this kind of thing never works, and you just move on to the next one. It's a fool's errand to try to win when someone else already has momentum in a particular product category." "But we decided we thought it was really important. We asked a team to do it, and they performed a legitimate, unbelievable, very rare in the history of business thing." "Now it is the product that most of the best coders I know use." "That felt like an impossible thing, but if we hadn't asked the team, hey, we have a really important but extremely hard mission for you, it just wouldn't have happened."

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🚨 Stop scrolling.. Let me explain what Sam Altman just pulled off. > Microsoft gave OpenAI $13 billion.. Biggest AI bet in history. OpenAI ran exclusively on Azure. > Then Sam got fired by his own board nd the whole world watched. > He talked his way back in. Fired the board instead and Restructured OpenAI from nonprofit to for-profit. > Then signed a $50 billion cloud deal with Amazon. Microsoft's biggest competitor.. using Microsoft's money to build the product Amazon's now selling. > Now Microsoft is lawyering up. This man got fired on a Friday, came back on a Monday, took $13 billion from Microsoft, flipped the entire company structure, and then handed the keys to Amazon. Sam Altman is running a masterclass in how to finesse a trillion dollar company with a straight face.

🚨 Stop scrolling.. Let me explain what Sam Altman just pulled off. > Microsoft gave OpenAI $13 billion.. Biggest AI bet in history. OpenAI ran exclusively on Azure. > Then Sam got fired by his own board nd the whole world watched. > He talked his way back in. Fired the board instead and Restructured OpenAI from nonprofit to for-profit. > Then signed a $50 billion cloud deal with Amazon. Microsoft's biggest competitor.. using Microsoft's money to build the product Amazon's now selling. > Now Microsoft is lawyering up. This man got fired on a Friday, came back on a Monday, took $13 billion from Microsoft, flipped the entire company structure, and then handed the keys to Amazon. Sam Altman is running a masterclass in how to finesse a trillion dollar company with a straight face.

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Jason Calacanis issues a brutal warning to every developer: “If I were any kind of developer, I would never work with Sam Altman and OpenAI” “This is a warning for anybody dumb enough to use Sam Altman’s OpenAI API” He says Altman is actively studying exactly how you use the API because he wants every single dollar of revenue from the entire ecosystem. No prisoners Sam comes from the Zuckerberg school of business: give people tools, study what they build, and like the Borg, steal every innovation they create Exactly like Bill Gates did at Microsoft - let people build Lotus 1-2-3 then release Excel, let them build WordPerfect and WordStar then release Microsoft Word

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512,332 views • 6 months ago

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330,955 views • 3 months ago

How To Build The Future: Sam Altman At OpenAI, Sam Altman and his team have overseen major leaps forward in machine learning, generative AI, and, most recently, LLMs that can reason at PhD levels. And this is just the beginning— in his latest essay Sam predicted that ASI is just a few thousand days away. In this episode of our rebooted series "How To Build The Future," Garry Tan sits down with Sam to talk about the origins of OpenAI, what’s next for the company, and what advice he has for founders navigating this massive platform shift.

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