Sam Altman

Sam Altman
Altman in 2019
Born
Samuel Harris Altman

(1985-04-22) April 22, 1985 (age 39)
Chicago, Illinois, U.S.
EducationStanford University (dropped out)
Known forLoopt, Y Combinator, OpenAI
Title
Spouse
Oliver Mulherin
​
(m. 2024)​
Websiteblog.samaltman.com
Signature

Samuel Harris Altman (born April 22, 1985) is an American entrepreneur and investor best known as the chief executive officer of OpenAI since 2019 (he was briefly fired and reinstated in November 2023).[1] He is also the Chairman of clean energy companies Oklo Inc. and Helion Energy.[2] Altman is considered to be one of the leading figures of the AI boom.[3][4][5] He dropped out of Stanford University after two years and founded Loopt, a mobile social networking service, raising more than $30 million in venture capital. In 2011, Altman joined Y Combinator, a startup accelerator, and was its president from 2014 to 2019.[6]

  1. ^ "OpenAI LP". openai.com. Archived from the original on March 11, 2019.
  2. ^ "Y Combinator's Sam Altman teams up with Michael Klein to launch SPAC looking to raise $1 billion". Reuters. March 15, 2021.
  3. ^ Weil, Elizabeth (September 25, 2023). "Sam Altman Is the Oppenheimer of Our Age". Intelligencer. Retrieved December 12, 2023.
  4. ^ Mickle, Tripp; Metz, Cade; Isaac, Mike; Weise, Karen (December 9, 2023). "Inside OpenAI's Crisis Over the Future of Artificial Intelligence". The New York Times. ISSN 0362-4331. Retrieved December 12, 2023.
  5. ^ "Artificial: The OpenAI Story". Wall Street Journal. December 10, 2023. Retrieved December 12, 2023.
  6. ^ "Sam Alman Fired from Y Combinator by Paul Graham". The Washington Post. Archived from the original on November 23, 2023. Retrieved November 24, 2023.