#419 – Sam Altman: OpenAI, GPT-5, Sora, Board Saga, Elon Musk, Ilya, Power & AGI

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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Sora Website: https://openai.com/sora
GPT-4 Website: https://openai.com/research/gpt-4

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OUTLINE:
Here's the timestamps for the episode. On some podcast players you should be able to click the timestamp to jump to that time.
(00:00) - Introduction
(07:51) - OpenAI board saga
(25:17) - Ilya Sutskever
(31:26) - Elon Musk lawsuit
(41:18) - Sora
(51:09) - GPT-4
(1:02:18) - Memory & privacy
(1:09:22) - Q*
(1:12:58) - GPT-5
(1:16:13) - $7 trillion of compute
(1:24:22) - Google and Gemini
(1:35:26) - Leap to GPT-5
(1:39:10) - AGI
(1:57:44) - Aliens