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Verbatim, from the transcripts: the passages where Sam Altman comes up
Simulating Humanity: from Generative Agents to 8 Billion Digital Twins — Joon Sung Park, Simile AI
- ▶ 1:04:55 Shawn Wang I think Sam Altman actually funded a study on this in Africa, and the answer was no. 2 times in the scene
Cooking with OpenAI’s Research Chief: AGI, o1, Evals, and Scaling Laws — Mark Chen
- ▶ 1:52 unnamed speaker So, in a previous life, you were once a trader, and even Sam, I think, last year in April, also tweeted about how if you're a high-frequency trader, you should consider joining OpenAI, because, you know,
⚡️Every product of the future will be a living system — Ronak Malde, Trajectory.ai
- ▶ 4:03 Ronak Malde I'm like, this is so suspicious, but we go over there and like, I fully expected it to be, uh, like Sam Altman or something.
Why AI Labs With Unlimited GPUs Still Fail — Anjney Midha, AMP
- ▶ 41:10 Anjney Midha You know, the guest speakers are Sam, Satya, Jensen.
⚡️Making DeepSeek v4 outperform Opus 4.7 with Taste — @AhmadAwais , CommandCode.ai
- ▶ 1:24 Ahmad Awais And I think Greg Brokman and Sam Altman ended up giving me access to GPT-III early.
The $15B Physical AI Company: Simulation, Autonomy OS, Neural Sim, & 1K Engineers—Applied Intuition
- ▶ 1:04:14 Alessio Fanelli I, I mean, Sam, Sam Allman, he said, he regressed a lot of the advice that he's given in YP. 4 times in the scene
Marc Andreessen introspects on Death of the Browser, Pi + OpenClaw, and Why "This Time Is Different"
- ▶ 56:12 Shawn Wang Sam runs Codex with skip permissions on, on his laptop.
- ▶ 1:06:53 Alessio Fanelli And I know you were to a clip of Sam Allman saying, um, 2 times in the scene
Dreamer: the Agent OS for Everyone — David Singleton
- ▶ 21:10 Shawn Wang Do you know this is Sam Altman's number one ask for an AI app?
Measuring Exponential Trends Rising (in AI) — Joel Becker, METR
- ▶ 26:08 Shawn Wang The thing that gives me comfort is, um, yesterday I was at the OpenAI live stream and even Samuel was like, yeah, I just let codecs just YOLO dangerous permissions, whatever on my computer.
Claude Code for Finance + The Global Memory Shortage: Doug O'Laughlin, SemiAnalysis
- ▶ 1:48:23 Shawn Wang You know, everyone, including Sam, by the way, is, like, predicting longer context windows.
🔬 From Red Teaming GPT-4 to Automating Drug Discovery: The Future of AI in Science — Andrew White
- ▶ 10:46 Andrew White He, like, had a presentation about our, our, our paper, and they presented, because there was a big tech CEO summit at this time, where they sent out Sam Altman, and some other CEOs out there, and they-
- ▶ 35:57 Andrew White But then, uh, Sam actually really pushed on us to like, let's just see if we do the whole thing.
[State of RL/Reasoning] IMO/IOI Gold, OpenAI o3/GPT-5, and Cursor Composer — Ashvin Nair, Cursor
- ▶ 17:10 unnamed speaker Uh, and I think Mark Chen or one of the other senior people that are not Sam also saying this in a, in a podcast.
- ▶ 19:03 Ashvin Nair Friday afternoon is like, oh, like Sam Altman just got fired.
One Year of MCP — with David Soria Parria and AAIF leads from OpenAI, Goose, Linux Foundation
- ▶ 1:44 David Soria Parra And then like, you had this like inflection point around April with like Sam Altman and Satya and Sundar and all, um, posting about like MCP and that they're going to adopt MCP at Microsoft, at Google.
Anthropic, Glean & OpenRouter: How AI Moats Are Built with Deedy Das of Menlo Ventures
- ▶ 9:02 Deedy Das Sam Altman, like we were just discussing earlier, like Sam Altman once came out and said, if you're an investor in OpenAI and one of these five companies, including Glean, we don't want you as an investor. 2 times in the scene
- ▶ 1:16:18 Deedy Das And I think, you know, being in Sam Altman's place, it's absolutely the right chess move to play.
Why RL Won — Kyle Corbitt, OpenPipe (acq. CoreWeave)
- ▶ 1:07:11 Shawn Wang I'll bridge it for you in case, in case something comes up, uh, Sam Altman's like, you know, everything I said as president of YC was wrong for opening AI, right?
DevDay 2025: Apps SDK, Agent Kit, MCP, Codex and why Prompting is More Important than Ever
- ▶ 1:59 Alessio Fanelli OG Dev Day, which was the DALI hack night at OpenAI in twenty-twenty-two, and I think Sam spoke to like 30 people, so I think it's just crazy to see the
- ▶ 29:10 Alessio Fanelli So, um, yeah, I think Sam, you know, said in an interview that he used chat GPT as like your personal assistant. 2 times in the scene
Taste is your Moat (Dylan Field of Figma)
- ▶ 31:06 Alessio Fanelli I think, you know, Sam tweeted, some moment tweeted about the fast fashion era of SaaS, but there's also like a negative connotation to fast fashion, but I feel like in software, it's like, man, if you can get the software that you need at…
⚡️Raising $1.1b to build the fastest LLM Chips on Earth — Andrew Feldman, Cerebras
- ▶ 1:47 Andrew Feldman And I, I think we were, uh, you know, in 2016, we, we met with Sam Altman and Ilya Suskovard at OpenAI and they were an idea 2 times in the scene
Greg Brockman on OpenAI's Road to AGI
- ▶ 36:36 unnamed speaker Well, Sam picked, you know, he tweeted the, the Death Star, so you're on the, on the Star Wars scene. 2 times in the scene
The AI Agenda: GPT5 leaks and the business of AI News — Steph Palazzolo, The Information
- ▶ 0:27 Shawn Wang Steph, I don't know if you remember, but actually, I think the first time I came across your work, I actually did a parody of it for the Sam Altman blip back in, like, 23, where I put, like, sort of Adam Newman as, like, the prospective…
- ▶ 20:51 Shawn Wang There are a lot of people accusing Sam Altman of, say, of throwing out numbers in order to play the media. 3 times in the scene
🕰️ The Oral History of Windsurf (ft. Varun Mohan, Scott Wu, Jeff Wang, Kevin Hou, Anshul R)
- ▶ 45:20 Shawn Wang These are deleted notes from Sam Altman talking about how they think about training, and I was like,
AI is Eating Search
- ▶ 28:47 unnamed speaker Let's go forward to a feature where, like Sam Allman says, ChatGPT is kind of like the all-encompassing personal assistant.
Personalized AI Language Education — with Andrew Hsu, Speak
- ▶ 42:03 Alessio Fanelli I thought they said it was, I mean, didn't Sam say that it was, you wanted to do a phone in the past?
AI Video Is Eating The World — Olivia and Justine Moore, a16z
- ▶ 39:05 Justine Moore Everyone, for some reason, video is, like, doing super well in the algorithm, and especially if you're, it's a video of, like, a character that people know, which is, like, Sam Altman or, like, Gary Tan or, like, whoever, you can get in a… 2 times in the scene
GPT 4.1: The New OpenAI Workhorse
- ▶ 6:48 Shawn Wang We are, our discord actually also did a launch, uh, watch party for the recent, uh, 4.5 podcasts that Sam Altman did, where I think for the first time, it was basically kind of confirmed that like something that people already knew, like…
- ▶ 8:23 unnamed speaker I know that Sam at DevDay last year, he said that, yeah, one million was like months away.
The Agent Network — Dharmesh Shah, Agent.ai + CTO of HubSpot
- ▶ 56:50 Dharmesh Shah I'm not, you know, on the list of things I promised myself I would never do is compete with Solomon Altman ever, uh, not intentionally anyway. 3 times in the scene
- ▶ 1:21:46 Alessio Fanelli It's like, did you just call up Sam one day and be like, I got the domain? 5 times in the scene
- ▶ 1:27:50 Shawn Wang Um, and, uh, I think Sam also is a fierce nerd and, and he is, uh, uh, I was, I was, 3 times in the scene
Building Manus AI (first ever Manus Meetup)
- ▶ 37:12 unnamed speaker And also, like, if you are, if you are using medicine to do some research, and there is someone, ah, you care, you care about a lot, so you just give, maybe you can just give a short minute, like, ah, next time I ask you to do some…
Snipd: The AI Podcast App for Learning — with CEO Kevin Ben-Smith
- ▶ 25:07 Kevin Ben-Smith For example, the, the best examples for me is Sam Altman and Elon Musk.
The AI Architect: Bret Taylor
- ▶ 1:14:04 Bret Taylor Was it a Thursday or Friday when Sam was fired? 11 times in the scene
- ▶ 1:21:32 unnamed speaker Second best was Microsoft echo hires, Sam and Greg and whoever else.
The Agent Reasoning Interface: Claude, ChatGPT Canvas, Tasks, Operator — with Karina Nguyen, OpenAI
- ▶ 19:31 Alessio Fanelli You know, Sam is always talking about incremental deployments and kind of like getting, having people getting used to it.
- ▶ 1:02:06 Shawn Wang Like what's one thing you learned from Barrett, Mira, Sam, maybe something like that.
Outlasting Noam Shazeer, Crowdsourcing Chai AI w/ 1.4m DAU — with William Beauchamp, Chai Research
- ▶ 8:58 William Beauchamp When I was hearing like the kind of the Sam Altman and kind of the Muskian perspective of AI, it was a very kind of monolithic thing.
Beating Google at Search with Neural PageRank and $5M of H200s — with Will Bryk of Exa.ai
2024 Year in Review: The Big Scaling Debate, the Four Wars of AI, Top Themes and the Rise of Agents
- ▶ 6:59 Shawn Wang Sam Altman's wrong.
- ▶ 23:00 Shawn Wang OpenAI is publishing emails from Sam's, like his personal text messages to Siobhan Zilis or whatever.
- ▶ 1:14:00 Shawn Wang I think, you know, Sam Altman for 20, 25 was like asking about what he should want, what people want him to ship or what people want him to open source.
- ▶ 1:23:09 Shawn Wang Um, a, uh, we also picked out, uh, that Sam was talking about GPT five soon. 2 times in the scene
- ▶ 1:40:44 Shawn Wang I mean, Sam has been saying that for a while now.
Agents @ Work: Dust.tt — with Stanislas Polu
- ▶ 14:32 Shawn Wang David, Sam Altman, Greg, you know, anything? 5 times in the scene
- ▶ 53:16 Stanislas Polu That quote was, uh, probably independently invented it, but, uh, Sam Altman stole it from me, uh, eventually.
Building the Silicon Brain - Drew Houston of Dropbox
- ▶ 4:48 Alessio Fanelli Swix and I were with Sam Allman October, 22. 2 times in the scene
Production AI Engineering starts with Evals
- ▶ 59:51 Ankur Goyal Luckily, you know, Elad, Alana, Sam, and now Martine were just like, that's stupid.
Building AGI with OpenAI's Structured Outputs API
- ▶ 50:17 Michelle Pokrass As hard as we could to make this come to life, but even actually the morning of, I don't know if you'll remember this, but Sam did this keynote, and Roman came up, and they gave free credits to everybody.
Answer.ai & AI Magic with Jeremy Howard
- ▶ 6:27 unnamed speaker And then after a month, a month after we released the episode, there was the whole Sam Altman drama and like all the opening governance issues. 3 times in the scene
The Winds of AI Winter (Q2 Four Wars of the AI Stack Recap)
- ▶ 33:23 Alessio Fanelli I guess Johnny Eye and Sam Allman need to figure it out so they can do a-
- ▶ 37:59 unnamed speaker Only Scarlett Johansson can do that to Sam Altman.
How to train a Million Context LLM — with Mark Huang of Gradient.ai
- ▶ 58:01 Mark Huang So having that kind of view towards the future is something that, um, you know, we, we, we want to be primed to do because, you know, it's similar to what Sam Altman says himself, too, right?
Why Google failed to make GPT-3 -- with David Luan of Adept
- ▶ 14:22 David Luan Before Microsoft invested in OpenAI, Sam Altman, myself, and our CFO flew up to Seattle to do the final pitch meeting.
- ▶ 24:26 Shawn Wang Um, so Bill Gates, I'll call that out, and then maybe Sam Altman also saying, like, agents of the future for OpenAI.
The State of AI in production — with David Hsu of Retool
- ▶ 5:37 unnamed speaker Um, any Sam Allman stories from the YC days? 4 times in the scene
The Four Wars of the AI Stack - Dec 2023 Recap
- ▶ 10:18 unnamed speaker So, yeah, I should say, like, the, the inspiration for this actually was, um, during the Sam Altman, uh, leadership, um, battle, uh, people were making mock Wikipedia entries for the debate, and for, like, who's on the side of the, you…
- ▶ 39:30 unnamed speaker And, uh, my favorite analogy, I actually got this from, I think, uh, an old quote from Sam Altman, who was like, you know, like, we made the plane, the airplane, uh, it was inspired by birds, but it doesn't work anything like birds.
The Origin and Future of RLHF: the secret ingredient for ChatGPT - with Nathan Lambert
- ▶ 3:40 unnamed speaker Like, this is why Sam Altman was fired.
The AI-First Graphics Editor - with Suhail Doshi of Playground AI
- ▶ 10:45 unnamed speaker Yeah, I mean, it's the first time I, like, encountered Sam Altman, because, like, they had this, like, Dolly II hackathon, and they opened up the OpenAI office for developers to walk in, like, back when, you know, it wasn't as, uh, I… 2 times in the scene
The "Normsky" architecture for AI coding agents — with Beyang Liu + Steve Yegge of SourceGraph
- ▶ 59:25 Shawn Wang But I think if you, like, kind of look out, um, I actually caught, uh, Sam Altman on the podcast yesterday talking about GPT-X. 3 times in the scene
- ▶ 1:13:31 Steve Yegge Executing their CEO. 2 times in the scene
The State of Silicon and the GPU Poors - with Dylan Patel of SemiAnalysis
- ▶ 5:21 Alessio Fanelli Sam Allman even tweeted about it.
- ▶ 10:54 Alessio Fanelli That makes sense, and the, the chart that Sama mentioned, uh, is about, yeah, Google TPU B-Fives completely overtaking OpenAI by, like, orders of magnitude.
- ▶ 49:59 Dylan Patel I bet you, I mean, I don't know, but I bet Sam Alton would say, yeah, we're going to build a hundred billion dollar supercomputer in three years or two years, right?
Generating your AI Media Empire - with Youssef Rizk of Wondercraft.ai
- ▶ 55:07 Shawn Wang Yeah, my favorite, um, quote, actually, um, I went to an early, like, pre-HGBT, uh, forum with Sam Altman, and I had this video advice from Sam, uh, that said, like, Facebook had no mode, and they just built, and got the network, but… 2 times in the scene
Ep 18: Petaflops to the People — with George Hotz of tinycorp
- ▶ 2:14 George Hotz Seeing Sam Altman go in front of Congress.
- ▶ 1:19:37 George Hotz Oh, and Sam Altman is a, is a genuinely good guy who is not interested in power seeking for himself.