Uploaded March 2024 | Updated September 2026, 2 weeks ago

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Sam Altman is the CEO of OpenAI, the company behind GPT-4, ChatGPT, Sora, and many other state-of-the-art AI technologies. Please support this podcast by checking out our sponsors:
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TRANSCRIPT:
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EPISODE LINKS:
Sam's X: https://x.com/sama
Sam's Blog: blog.samaltman.com
OpenAI's X: https://x.com/OpenAI
OpenAI's Website: openai.com
ChatGPT Website: chat.openai.com
Sora Website: openai.com/sora
GPT-4 Website: openai.com/research/gpt-4

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OUTLINE:
0:00 - Introduction
1:05 - OpenAI board saga
18:31 - Ilya Sutskever
24:40 - Elon Musk lawsuit
34:32 - Sora
44:23 - GPT-4
55:32 - Memory & privacy
1:02:36 - Q*
1:06:12 - GPT-5
1:09:27 - $7 trillion of compute
1:17:35 - Google and Gemini
1:28:40 - Leap to GPT-5
1:32:24 - AGI
1:50:57 - Aliens

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