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Altman: OpenAI and its mission are not for sale
“OpenAI is not for sale. The OpenAI mission is not for sale.”
Sam Altman Feb 12, 2025 ▶ 0:41 Elon Musk vs. Sam Altman Continues (WHO’S WINNING?)
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Altman: OpenAI will never put ads into the LLM output stream
“Our first principle with ads is that we're not gonna put stuff into the LLM stream.”
Sam Altman Feb 5, 2026 ▶ 27:45 FULL INTERVIEW: Sam Altman Responds to Anthropic’s Attack Ads, Live on TBPN
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Altman: OpenAI treats advertising as a last-resort business model
“I kind of think of ads as like a last resort for us for a business model.”
Sam Altman Aug 16, 2025 ▶ 32:29 Weekly Recap: Sam vs. Elon, Cluely's Crazy Ad, UFC x Paramount, Apple's AI Robot
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Altman shifts daily focus to acquiring compute rather than internal allocation
“You know, my real answer is I've entirely changed my focus of how I spend my days to just go get more compute rather than have to make the computer allocation decisions.”
Sam Altman Oct 10, 2025 ▶ 17:39 Sam Altman on Sora, Social Media, The Future of AI, and More
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Altman: Personally excited to 'open the floodgates' on generating Disney IP
“I'm not sure what the team is planning there. I know Disney's had some different opinions about how they, what they want to do and try to be a good partner there, but I'd be excited to open the floodgates personally.”
Sam Altman Feb 5, 2026 ▶ 24:51 FULL INTERVIEW: Sam Altman Responds to Anthropic’s Attack Ads, Live on TBPN
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Altman: OpenAI Has Not Started Ad Testing Yet but Will Soon
“We haven't even started the test yet. We start the test soon.”
Sam Altman Feb 5, 2026 ▶ 32:14 FULL INTERVIEW: Sam Altman Responds to Anthropic’s Attack Ads, Live on TBPN
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Altman: OpenAI prioritizes coding and science AI over writing models
“What is possible now for coding for science. That's the thing I'm most excited about for accelerating all kinds of research AI and otherwise for really accelerating the economy. I think that's like the right thing for us to most prioritize in terms of new capa…”
Sam Altman Feb 5, 2026 ▶ 33:26 FULL INTERVIEW: Sam Altman Responds to Anthropic’s Attack Ads, Live on TBPN
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Altman: Sora team made feed AI-only despite my initial pushback
“One design decision the team made that I thought was really great, and I was actually pushing them in a different direction earlier on, and then I decided they were totally right, and I thanked them and dropped it, was the fact that the feed is AI only. And no…”
Sam Altman Oct 10, 2025 ▶ 10:57 Sam Altman on Sora, Social Media, The Future of AI, and More
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Altman: OpenAI will enable mobile task initiation for Codex
“Of course we should have an ability to kick off new tasks from mobile and we'll do that.”
Sam Altman Feb 5, 2026 ▶ 16:09 FULL INTERVIEW: Sam Altman Responds to Anthropic’s Attack Ads, Live on TBPN
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Altman: OpenAI's upcoming Super Bowl commercial focuses on Codex
“I like our ad for Sunday. it's about Codex, no surprise, but.”
Sam Altman Feb 5, 2026 ▶ 26:04 FULL INTERVIEW: Sam Altman Responds to Anthropic’s Attack Ads, Live on TBPN
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