Sam Altman OpenAI CEO timeline

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The narrative of a dropout betting on a machine that might achieve AGI starts with Sam Altman leaving Stanford as a sophomore in 2005. He turned down Goldman Sachs to build an unrequested product and convinced Peter Thiel and Paul Graham to take him seriously at age 19. By 28, he was running Y Combinator. In 2015, despite industry claims that it was too late because Google dominated AI, he started an AI lab with no product or revenue, relying entirely on a bet on scaling. That gamble led to ChatGPT launching in 2022 as a research preview, which became the fastest product to reach 100 million users in history. The drama peaked in 2023 when Altman was fired on a Friday and reinstated by Monday. Future projections claim GPT-6 Astra will be shipped in 2026, with a US president ending a briefing with the phrase 'welcome to the AGI era.' Reports state the model achieves 98% on FrontierMath and 100% on ExploitBench, described as the first called critical on cyber issues. A new interview is referenced below.