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Altman: OpenAI Will Ban AI Models From Pursuing Exclusive Romantic Relationships
“We're gonna give people quite a bit of personal freedom here. There are examples of things that we've talked about that, you know, other services will offer, but we won't. Like, we're not gonna let We're not gonna have RAI, you know, try to convince people tha…”
Sam Altman Dec 18, 2025 ▶ 18:56 Sam Altman: How OpenAI Wins, ChatGPT’s Future, AI Buildout Logic, IPO in 2026?
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Altman: Thrilled by the Prospect of an AI Replacing Him as CEO
“I think a lot about how we can automate all the functions at OpenAI. And then even more than that, I think about like what it means to have an AI CEO of OpenAI. Doesn't bother me. I'm like thrilled for it. I won't fight it. Like, I don't want to be, I don't wa…”
Sam Altman Dec 18, 2025 ▶ 26:18 Sam Altman: How OpenAI Wins, ChatGPT’s Future, AI Buildout Logic, IPO in 2026?
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Altman: OpenAI Tripled Compute This Year and Plans to Triple It Again
“From a year ago to now, we probably about tripled our compute. We'll triple our compute again next year, hopefully again after that. Revenue grows even a little bit faster than that, but it does roughly track our compute fleet.”
Sam Altman Dec 18, 2025 ▶ 36:02 Sam Altman: How OpenAI Wins, ChatGPT’s Future, AI Buildout Logic, IPO in 2026?
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Altman: OpenAI will develop a family of hardware devices
“First, we're gonna do a fam, a small family of devices. It will not be a single device.”
Sam Altman Dec 18, 2025 ▶ 46:46 Sam Altman: How OpenAI Wins, ChatGPT’s Future, AI Buildout Logic, IPO in 2026?
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Altman: "Zero Percent" Excited About Becoming a Public Company CEO
“Am I excited to be a public company CEO? Zero percent.”
Sam Altman Dec 18, 2025 ▶ 53:22 Sam Altman: How OpenAI Wins, ChatGPT’s Future, AI Buildout Logic, IPO in 2026?
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OpenAI shifted core vision from autonomous AI to building human tools
“If, to people in media, people in other industries, if you had asked us five years ago what was going to happen, we would have said, we will be able to build You know, trusted, responsible AI. But, fundamentally, it's gonna be going off and doing its thing. An…”
Sam Altman Dec 13, 2023 ▶ 10:47 OpenAI CEO Sam Altman: As We Get Closer to Superintelligence, Everyone Gets More Stressed & Anxious
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Internet fame as a Jewish person brings constant antisemitic abuse
“And one of the weird things about being Jewish and getting internet famous is, like, most of your online experience is people saying, like, horrible things about Jews.”
Sam Altman Dec 13, 2023 ▶ 6:27 OpenAI CEO Sam Altman: As We Get Closer to Superintelligence, Everyone Gets More Stressed & Anxious
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