Sam Altman
Co-founder and CEO of OpenAI; previously president of Y Combinator.
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blog.samaltman.comBlog Their blog, going back to 2013. Sparse and deliberate.
A few essays a year, usually on AI, startups and where the technology is heading — the place where positions get stated at length rather than in a thread. Has an Atom feed.
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- - 10 Apr 2026
- Sora update #1 4 Oct 2025
- Sora 2 30 Sept 2025
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- Abundant Intelligence 23 Sept 2025
- Jakub and Szymon 9 Sept 2025
- The Gentle Singularity 10 Jun 2025
- Three Observations 9 Feb 2025
- Reflections 6 Jan 2025
- GPT-4o 13 May 2024
- What I Wish Someone Had Told Me 21 Dec 2023
- Helion Needs You 13 Jul 2022
- DALL•E 2 6 Apr 2022
- Helion 5 Nov 2021
- The Strength of Being Misunderstood 1 Dec 2020
- PG and Jessica 25 Sept 2020
- Researchers and Founders 19 Jun 2020
- Project Covalence 16 Jun 2020
- Idea Generation 28 May 2020
- Please Fund More Science 30 Mar 2020
- Funding for COVID-19 Projects 15 Mar 2020
Link verified 1 Sept 2026. Recent items update automatically from the channel.
@samax.com The fast channel: announcements and short takes.
Product announcements, short takes on AI, and replies. Far higher volume than the blog, and usually where a position appears first.
Recent
- this is a critically important moment for cyber defense with AI; there is not much time to act. we are happy if you want to work with us or any of our competit… 27 Aug 2026
- RT @gdb: An open letter for a global surge in cyber defense, signed by over 100 organizations including Anthropic, AWS, Google, Microsoft,… 27 Aug 2026
- i think we should do another party for our next model release, the 5.5 party was a lot of fun. what would make the next one awesome? 26 Aug 2026
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- this is a good report about a bad thing: 26 Aug 2026
- big 26 Aug 2026
- we made a chip and it is fast 25 Aug 2026
- we support business privacy! https://t.co/SJ6w5DeYTY 19 Aug 2026
- We have paused some frontier RL training to ensure that we can meet the appropriate alignment, security and monitoring standards for the new level of capabilit… 18 Aug 2026
- excited to work together on this. thank you jensen! 18 Aug 2026
- /ultrafast 14 Aug 2026
- please consider using our models to help defend your systems 10 Aug 2026
- lol another one of the things i like most about openai is tibo 9 Aug 2026
- one of the things i like most about the openai team is how focused they are on our customers and users succeeding, and how much they celebrate it 9 Aug 2026
- astra is a powerful model and we are working to make it generally available. we do not think it is a good strategy to keep powerful models to a chosen few. giv… 7 Aug 2026
- congrats to oklo for achieving criticality! (less than a year after groundbreaking) https://t.co/tdbU6UfOAb 7 Aug 2026
- 5.6 Sol much better in chat now and unlimited text chat for free users! 6 Aug 2026
- i would rather be an optimist and work hard than a pessimist posting about why things won't work. it's much more difficult and the most likely path is failure,… 4 Aug 2026
- team humanity 1 Aug 2026
- cool use case of chatgpt work i heard last night: connect your family calendars and explain your kids' interests. every morning for the drive to school, have i… 31 Jul 2026
- i see your moore's law and i raise you 20x 31 Jul 2026
Link verified 1 Sept 2026. Recent items update automatically from the channel.
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What they believeKorents 7 beliefs — each backed by an exact quote.
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This is a critically important moment for AI cyber defence and there is not much time left to act; only a collective response will work.
this is a critically important moment for cyber defense with AI; there is not much time to act.
@sama on X Said 27 Aug 2026
Confidence in safety, not capability, will increasingly set the pace of AI progress.
We care very deeply about AI safety. We believe the entire field will have to coordinate on shared safety standards, but will act unilaterally in the meantime. We expect confidence in safety to increasingly set the pace of AI progress.
@sama on X Said 18 Aug 2026
Keeping powerful models available only to a chosen few is not a good strategy.
we do not think it is a good strategy to keep powerful models to a chosen few.
@sama on X Said 7 Aug 2026
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It is better to be an optimist who works hard than a pessimist who writes about why things will not work, because no amount of such essays moves society forward.
i would rather be an optimist and work hard than a pessimist posting about why things won't work. it's much more difficult and the most likely path is failure, but society fails if people don't try. no amount of "it will never work" essays will drive society forward.
@sama on X Said 4 Aug 2026
AI will eliminate whole classes of jobs, but the wealth it creates will make policy responses affordable that were previously unthinkable.
There will be very hard parts like whole classes of jobs going away, but on the other hand the world will be getting so much richer so quickly that we’ll be able to seriously entertain new policy ideas we never could before.
The Gentle Singularity Said 10 Jun 2025
AI agents can now do real cognitive work, and writing software is permanently changed as a result.
2025 has seen the arrival of agents that can do real cognitive work; writing computer code will never be the same.
The Gentle Singularity Said 10 Jun 2025
People will find new kinds of useful work as AI advances, though it will not resemble the jobs of today.
We will find new things to do, new ways to be useful to each other, and new ways to compete, but they may not look very much like the jobs of today.
Three Observations Said 9 Feb 2025
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- this is a critically important moment for cyber defense with AI; there is not much time to act. we are happy if you want to work with us or any of our competit… 27 Aug
- RT @gdb: An open letter for a global surge in cyber defense, signed by over 100 organizations including Anthropic, AWS, Google, Microsoft,… 27 Aug
- This is a critically important moment for AI cyber defence and there is not much time left to act; only a collective response will work. 27 Aug
- i think we should do another party for our next model release, the 5.5 party was a lot of fun. what would make the next one awesome? 26 Aug
- this is a good report about a bad thing: 26 Aug
- big 26 Aug
Show 31 more
- we made a chip and it is fast 25 Aug
- we support business privacy! https://t.co/SJ6w5DeYTY 19 Aug
- We have paused some frontier RL training to ensure that we can meet the appropriate alignment, security and monitoring standards for the new level of capabilit… 18 Aug
- excited to work together on this. thank you jensen! 18 Aug
- Confidence in safety, not capability, will increasingly set the pace of AI progress. 18 Aug
- /ultrafast 14 Aug
- please consider using our models to help defend your systems 10 Aug
- lol another one of the things i like most about openai is tibo 9 Aug
- one of the things i like most about the openai team is how focused they are on our customers and users succeeding, and how much they celebrate it 9 Aug
- astra is a powerful model and we are working to make it generally available. we do not think it is a good strategy to keep powerful models to a chosen few. giv… 7 Aug
- congrats to oklo for achieving criticality! (less than a year after groundbreaking) https://t.co/tdbU6UfOAb 7 Aug
- Keeping powerful models available only to a chosen few is not a good strategy. 7 Aug
- It is better to be an optimist who works hard than a pessimist who writes about why things will not work, because no amount of such essays moves society forward. 4 Aug
- - 10 Apr
- Sora update #1 4 Oct 2025
- Sora 2 30 Sept 2025
- Abundant Intelligence 23 Sept 2025
- Jakub and Szymon 9 Sept 2025
- The Gentle Singularity 10 Jun 2025
- AI agents can now do real cognitive work, and writing software is permanently changed as a result. 10 Jun 2025
- AI will eliminate whole classes of jobs, but the wealth it creates will make policy responses affordable that were previously unthinkable. 10 Jun 2025
- Three Observations 9 Feb 2025
- People will find new kinds of useful work as AI advances, though it will not resemble the jobs of today. 9 Feb 2025
- Reflections 6 Jan 2025
- GPT-4o 13 May 2024
- What I Wish Someone Had Told Me 21 Dec 2023
- Helion Needs You 13 Jul 2022
- DALL•E 2 6 Apr 2022
- Helion 5 Nov 2021
- The Strength of Being Misunderstood 1 Dec 2020
- PG and Jessica 25 Sept 2020