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Sam Altman

Sam Altman

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About Sam Altman

Sam Altman is the CEO of OpenAI, the artificial intelligence company behind ChatGPT, GPT-4, and DALL-E. Under his leadership, OpenAI has become one of the most influential AI companies in the world, with ChatGPT reaching over 800 million weekly active users.

Career Highlights

  • Y Combinator (2014-2019): President of the prestigious startup accelerator
  • OpenAI (2015-present): Co-founder, later CEO
  • Worldcoin (2019-present): Co-founder of the identity verification project

Notable Positions

On Enterprise AI (2025)

At a December 2025 lunch with media executives, Altman signaled a major strategic shift for OpenAI, stating that enterprise AI would be "if not the top, a very big priority" for 2026. This represents a pivot from OpenAI's traditional 70/30 consumer-to-enterprise split.

On Applications vs. Models

Altman has notably shifted his messaging from model capability to application development:

"It is not a training problem. It is an application problem. It's not about the model's intelligence. It's about building the applications to get the most intelligence out of them."

This signals acknowledgment that frontier models are commoditizing and that differentiation must come from productization.

On Revenue Projections

Altman has made ambitious revenue projections for OpenAI, targeting $100 billion in revenue by 2028, though the specific breakdown of consumer vs. enterprise vs. other revenue streams remains unclear.

Key Quotes

  • "It is not a training problem. It is an application problem."
  • "Enterprise is if not the top, a very big priority for 2026."