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Altman: AI is currently solving novel math problems and making discoveries
“We're finally at the moment where AI is solving novel math problems. It is discovering other stuff. It is, you know, you can argue about how good or not, I would say not very good, but it is writing poetry.”
Sam Altman Aug 23, 2026 ▶ 27:34 Sam Altman on Building OpenAI & Betting on the Impossible
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Altman: ChatGPT has reached one billion users in under four years
“ChatGPT has only been out, like, less than four years. A billion people use it.”
Sam Altman Aug 23, 2026 ▶ 35:23 Sam Altman on Building OpenAI & Betting on the Impossible
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Altman: OpenAI's GPT series originated from its unsupervised sentiment neuron paper
“You know, what started as the unsupervised sentiment neuron paper turned into GPT-ONE and then eventually GPT-whatever.”
Sam Altman Aug 23, 2026 ▶ 1:15:03 Sam Altman on Building OpenAI & Betting on the Impossible
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Altman: OpenAI took four and a half years to launch first product
“The thing that was really different about OpenAI than anything that I had pattern matching before is it was four and a half years from when we started the company to when we launched our first product.”
Sam Altman Aug 23, 2026 ▶ 1:09:55 Sam Altman on Building OpenAI & Betting on the Impossible
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