Sam Altman, AI trendsetter
Sam Altman is the American CEO of OpenAI, born on April 22, 1985, in Missouri, where his family is very supportive of his interests. and bought his first computer when he was 8 years old and continued to study in this field
And in 2003, he came out as gay. and pursued a bachelor's degree at Stanford University in computer science. which is a leading university in the United States, but Sam Altman left in 2005 to focus on developing the Loopt application, which has the functionality to share your location with friends. and became the first startup to raise funds in the accelerator program of Y Combinator, It was able to raise more than 30 million dollars and had an application value of 175 million dollars, but users decreased in popularity and It has sold its business to payments platform Green Dot for $43 million.
Later, in 2014, Sam Altman became president of Y Combinator, a company that invests in startups that have invested in many companies such as Airbnb, Dropbox, Asana, Instacart, Pinterest, Stripe, etc. In 2015, he co-founded the company. OpenAI with Elon Musk, Ilya Sutskever, Greg Brockman, John Schulman, and Wojciech Zaremba started as a non-profit company.
In 2019, as CEO of OpenAI, he transitioned to a for-profit business and became a leader in Generative AI technology, earning $1 billion in backing from Microsoft. Launched ChatGPT in late 2022, it has become a rapidly growing AI service platform. In addition, the company OpenAI has
“World Coin”
Sam Altman's cryptocurrency project launched in mid-2023, which uses AI-based iris verification, has attracted more than 2 million people during Bata and has launched more than 2 million iris scans. 35 cities in 20 countries, but various academics have expressed their opinions and concerns about this coin.
And then there was a big storm that happened with Sam Altman being fired for hiding information from the board of directors and losing confidence. During the past November The person who will take over as CEO is "Emmett Shear", the former CEO of Twitch, a famous game streaming platform, and Microsoft hired Sam Altman to continue developing the AI system. However, after he was fired only 4 days, he returned to serve as CEO of OpenAI as before
“If you want to create a startup To be successful you need a good idea, a good product, a good team, and good action.” - Sam Altman
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