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Verbatim, from the transcripts: the passages where Sam Altman comes up
World Models, JEPA And The Path To Sample-Efficient RL · Y Combinator
- ▶ 1:06:50 unnamed speaker I think Sam Altman just kind of came and just said that he thinks that there's definitely an architecture that's going to be more performant than the transformer.
Paul Graham, Founder of Y Combinator, Live from Stockholm · Y Combinator
- ▶ 9:24 Paul Graham Surprisingly often, you'll see Brian Chesky or Sam Altman, right, and think to yourself, all right,
Replit's CEO On The Only Two Jobs Left In The Company Of The Future · Y Combinator
- ▶ 19:41 Amjad Masad So when we, when we came in and Sam stood, uh, uh, when he was still running it, Sam stood in front of the batch and said, 3 times in the scene
François Chollet: Why Scaling Alone Isn’t Enough for AGI · Y Combinator
- ▶ 41:46 unnamed speaker We've all here heard of the OpenAI founding story, and something that's always struck with me is just like both Sam and Greg say that it was a little odd in the early days because they didn't actually know what to do.