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Sam Altman

Also known as Samuel Altman, Samuel Harris Altman, Sam Harris Altman

Samuel Harris Altman is an American entrepreneur who has been the chief executive officer (CEO) of the AI company OpenAI since 2019.

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Sam Altman is an American entrepreneur who leads OpenAI, a major artificial intelligence company, as its CEO since 2019. He matters because he oversees the development of influential AI technologies and plays a significant role in shaping how advanced AI systems are created and deployed.

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Chicago, Illinois, USA

Samuel Harris Altman (born April 22, 1985) is an American businessman and entrepreneur who has been the chief executive officer (CEO) of the artificial intelligence research organization OpenAI since 2019. Altman attended Stanford University for two years before dropping out and co-founding Loopt, a smartphone geosocial networking service, which raised more than US$30 million in venture capital…

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The AI Doc: Or How I Became an Apocaloptimist — Self2026
넥스트 샘 올트먼2025
AI and the Future of Us: An Oprah Winfrey Special — Self2024
What's Next? The Future with Bill Gates — Self - Founder and CEO, OpenAI (archive footage)2024
The Tonight Show Starring Jimmy Fallon — Self - Guest2014
Democracy Now! — Self (archive footage)2001

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Instance of: human
Given name: Sam
Family name: Altman
Gender: male
Citizenship: United States
Place of birth: Chicago
Occupation: programmer
Position held: président-directeur général
Employer: OpenAI
Languages spoken: English language
Award: honorary doctorate
Official website: blog.samaltman.com
Image: Sam Altman speaking at TED (cropped).jpg
Residence: San Francisco

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date of birth: 1985-04-22
sexual orientation: gay
Commons category: Sam Altman
social media followers: 1315495
lifestyle: vegetarianism
name in native language: Sam Altman
birth name: Samuel Harris Altman
described at URL: baike.sogou.com/v101378121.htm
start of work period: 2005-00-00
ethnic group: Jewish people
official blog URL: blog.samaltman.com

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Samuel Harris Altman (born April 22, 1985) is an American entrepreneur who has been the chief executive officer (CEO) of the artificial intelligence company OpenAI since 2019.

Altman attended Stanford University for two years before he dropped out and co-founded Loopt, a smartphone geosocial networking service. Loopt was acquired by Green Dot Corporation for $43.4 million. In 2011, Altman joined Y Combinator, a technology startup accelerator and venture capital firm, and was the company's president from 2014 to 2019. He is a billionaire with many investments including Reddit, Worldcoin, and Helion Energy.

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