Sam Altman
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OpenAI's CEO — the industry's chief fundraiser, evangelist and lightning rod.
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Altman turned OpenAI from research lab to the fastest-growing product company in history, survived his own board's attempt to fire him (November 2023), and then scaled ambition to the infrastructure itself: Stargate, trillion-dollar compute talk, deals with NVIDIA, AMD, Broadcom and Oracle at once. His personal bets extend the thesis — Oklo (fission), Helion (fusion), and hardware with Jony Ive.
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