#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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GPT-4 Website: openai.com/research/gpt-4

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OUTLINE:

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(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