Sam Altman’s OpenAI Dilemma: Profit vs. ‘Benefit of Humanity’ | WSJ

When Sam Altman co-founded OpenAI in 2015, the generative AI industry was niche. Altman helped create the tech company with the mission of developing AI for the benefit of humanity, but he has seen massive commercial success with the viral Chat-GPT and splashy new products like Sora and GPT-4o.
WSJ looks at how he turned the company from a wonky research lab to a $86 billion unicorn, while walking the thin line between commercial success and utopian ideals.
Chapters:
0:00 The AI revolution
0:28 Altman’s social mission
2:14 Commercial success
7:57 Competition and the future
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OpenAI was never wonky lab, it was started by people who have sold their companies for billions

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Stanford incubators have the goal specifically in mind... create something that gets bought. And even Ray Kurzweil - I always laugh at how people prop this clown up as some sort of guru - pushed back AGI to 2032. Might as well as be 5032 given the current technology base.

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I dont know why ppl always praise ONLY ONE PERSON. Open AI is a small company with hundreds of employee. Everyone in the team deserves the attention, not just Sam.

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We are in the real world, no matter who worked hard in this company. Only the face of any achievement counts, no matter their relative contributions. Steve Jobs had to be convinced by others to launching iPhone..., how's he perceived today?

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Yes they should interview everyone at OpenAI !! Everyone. EVERYONE.

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Wow this is a fluff piece. Completely omitting why the board fired him and why the head of safety left Open AI

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What about what he did to his sister?

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WSJ owner is partner with open AI, no shocker there

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​@@Septumsempra8818lol what did he do to his sister

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Care to elaborate

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Well, I didn't get how exactly Sam Altman has built his OpenAI Lab into a Behemoth. What was his first step and what was the role of big tech?

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his first step is to convince Microsoft that nobody is going to care that they are just stealing copyrighted data on the internet. The entire problem of AI for the last decade and a half is just the lack of open source/copyright-free data available. There is literally no innovation here, it's why any idiot can create an AI product now using decade old algorithms on Google's tensorflow and python's deep learning libraries that have existed for over a decade now.

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He knows a lot of people who will give him money.

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Very one sided reporting, did not expect from WSJ. Do better

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I agree with you but the most pretentious, stuck up thing anyone could ever say is "do better". Do better.

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They currently have a licensing deal with OpenAI, that why

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I didn't expect anything form any legacy mass media lol

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Wow, you guys forgot Ilya, the brain of Open AI 😅 *we are viewing a report from Altman's fan boy. 🤣

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Sam Altman looks EXACTLY like Elijah Kamski from Detroit Become Human

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@@muresanandrei7565 Not entirely identical, but he does give off the same vibes and aesthetic

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They're ditching Elon Musk for Sam Altman lol

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Sam Altman Fried!

[@davidanalyst671]

Sam Altman turned this AI lab into a corporate AI monster that it was meant to prevent from happening. Sam Altman is a monster

[@Tumleren]

Is it the fact that he threw ethics out the window and all employees cheered him on?

[@lanzer22]

If someone offered you retirement within a year, you’re not cheering him on, you’re cheering for your own fortune

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Money.

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yes

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Stock options and Stock valuations in a jist

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Just crazy what a craze Open AI started. Great video

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Why are you intentionally twisting history @wsj? there is no credit to Elon Musk. Instead you have intentionally made him seem like an outside critic rather than acknowledging the key role he played in openAI’s existence. Please be better.

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He's acknowledged as a co-founder who is now a current critic of the company which is.... accurate? What do you want them to say?

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Cry elon fanboy

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I’d like accurate reporting on the history of OpenAI, a quick mention as co-founder most people will miss doesn’t seem accurate to me, wouldn’t you say?

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so much respect for Altman since 2015.. I kinda forgot about him in the years between but I wasn't surprised he was able to pull this off

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Excellent narration on Sam Altman's vision and leadership. The focus on ethical AI development amid commercial pressures was well-explored and very relevant.

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But how do you make so much in a month? mind sharing?

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Subtitles are wrong

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KZbin's auto-generated subtitles does a better job than their included ones :)

[@suhaelowis]

Are you sure about the data of monthly traffic? Is it really one billion in Feb?

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Did he build it? He can't write a line of code. It was Ilya who built it! It should be titled "how Sam Altman masterly powerplay to steal the control of ClosedAI.

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You clearly haven't built anything in life

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Was this valuation before or after the Scarlet Johansen lawsuit that forced him to withdraw the “her” sounding digital assistant?

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This is before all lawsuits lined up, investments they have to return, all the costs they have ramped up on "training" & "research" I mean reporters just write a number & are happy anything goes

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He stole it all, still clueless on how it works really.

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This guys looks like the JS dev making money off of Sutskever's life's work

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I thought this was a deep dive into how Open AI was built from the begining, it was all about Sam Altman

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[@Digit0wL]

The guy was at the wef, he isn't a one man show, it was a non profit organisation, and he isn't a AI genius, just a smart opportunistic individual

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He is not the face of Gen AI! It's the scientist who build it! most notably ilya sutskever!

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I though Elon Musk created openai, as a counter point to the beliefs of Googles founders per Max Tegmark's book.....

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[@tony.cortez]

It says a lot when the board removed you, and all employees wants to also leave the company. As a leader, it says a lot. Like a lot!

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and the founder Elon tried to sue because 6 years after founding OPENAI the nonprofit has a closed AI, and they sold it to microsoft

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the employees didn't want him to leave...just the isolated board. In fact, basically all the employees wanted him back.

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Get your facts straight, employees backed him coming back almost unanimously and only part of the board made that decision including Helen Toner who is kind of an AI doomer, so obviously she is not that bullish on AI getting put out to the public. Somehow people tend to forget this and now kind of side with Toner. There will always be a stuggle between people who want to build AGI and people who are mostly concerned about safety and want to keep it locked up. Not everything in this fight will leave both sides untainted...

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@@CosmicCells they back him because otherwise their compensation packages were null and void

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@@CosmicCells They back him due to the massive stock option the employees hold. Their net worth will fall if Openai prioritises safety over fancy new models.

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He looks like Ramsay Bolton from GOT!

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people, companies, organizations that need to claim that what they do, is in pro humanity, must be taken in question. People, organizations, companies that really do all in pro of humanity, doesnt need to claim it, because the results are the claim by itself.

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Great Open AI has happened and that it is accessible to the general public.

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Wait… So they made a deal. He succeeded in hitting the goals of the deal. And still they don’t want to pay. So they are reneging on the deal. Am I getting that right?

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It’s playing with 101001 moving those decibels around

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Which was on accident because of too much manual instruction, a algorithm causing effect

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Moving further along if we use solid state roms rectangle and solid state rams for onboard semiconductors we will exceed the Moore’s law

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Impressive journey, Sam Altman, you're truly inspiring! 👏

[@BallyBoy95]

Very inspiring how he and Elon Musk give no credit to their skilled engineers who work for them. When I become rich, I hope to hire skilled employees and steal credit for their work too! Very inspiring indeed.

[@davidanalyst671]

Sam Altman destroyed the non profit that was dedicated to human safety. Sam is a monster

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Wow. Shocking misreporting from WSJ, really surprised.

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He got hand-outs, that's how

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He looks like a Great Value peter thiel

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it was Elon musk

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That's what happened to Nikolai Tesla 1:29

[@TransmentalMe]

"He didn't" there, video over. No one person built a multi-billion dollar business, the team they rely on did. He, and all his colleagues, are brilliant people and the culture of single hero worship has to stop. Super excited to see the future of OpenAI.

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He is the only entreprenuer i look up to.

[@steveo7502]

This told me nothing about 'how' he founded OpenAI. You spend more time narrating the various eddies that swirl around the character of the man.

[@incaseidie]

this title is a problem every single company in the world faces, not just open Ai Profits vs the good of humanity…….

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Morality is more important than money.

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Друзья навели меня на этот казик) и не зря) я тут теперь частенько пропадаю) офигенная тема

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Too much hype. Bigdata -> Crypto currency -> OpenAI/GI . I wonder what happened with first two ?? Any idea. VCs are again creating hype and common people are buying it. We never learn

[@tonicalloway7227]

Why would a person create a golem,then cry foul?..as soon as something happens..arrest this two-faced tommy..he took the miney then cried beware..

[@SereneBliss]

Losing your journalistic integrity WSJ

[@alexkey9372]

well they started openAI and they became closedAI. just kept the original name for marketing.

[@leonlee877]

Didn't Elon start OpenAI?

[@HaxxBlaster]

OpenAI was founded by: Elon Musk, Sam Altman, Greg Brockman, Ilya Sutskever, Wojciech Zaremba, John Schulman, Andrej Karpathy

[@davidanalyst671]

wasnt Open AI supposed to the a nonprofit and have open AI?

[@djdjdbdjdi1328]

​@@davidanalyst671 The company was not receiving enough funding to continue operating as a non-profit. Therefore, they had to transition to a for-profit model to ensure their survival, as they wouldn't have the funding necessary to keep going otherwise. Although they are no longer a non-profit, their agreements with companies like Microsoft are capital-capped. This means that once Microsoft earns a certain amount from their partnership, the cooperation ends. Operating solely as a non-profit wasn't sustainable for them, especially given the high costs of NVIDIA GPUs.

[@Gerrardstrike]

He did but Rocket man bad now so media will slander his name

[@PentangleYT]

@@djdjdbdjdi1328 and you bought what Sam Altman sold to the markets. He and his minion employees are prioritizing new models and products over safety to increase their personal wealth thus posing a wide potential threat to the world.

[@shanneykar]

The LLM evolution is built on decades of research by several brilliant minds. Unlimited funds and a face like Sam altman plastered to front is typical of chrony capitalism. SBF, SAm Altman just all fronts

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Sam Altman should follow Sam Bankman path... Jail!!! #Hope

[@happyeveryday4152]

He will.

[@GoranZuzic]

I'm curious: why? I never really heard any serious scandal about him, esp. no criminal one.

[@theplacebodealer]

@@GoranZuzic Mainly because this whole "AI" thing is built on unsustainable hype and empty promises. He's basically trying to 'fake it till he makes it' in order to secure more funding and deals. I'm no lawyer so I won't say anything about the legality of this. He might get away with it since he can just say "I truly believed we were on the road to AGI" or whatever. But he is definitely (intentionally) misleading people on a massive scale. But the same is true for a lot of big names in the tech industry, including NVIDIA, who also do a lot of sketchy stuff to 'fake' demand. So it does kinda look like a house of cards.

[@PentangleYT]

@@GoranZuzic Priortising AI models and products over safety.

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​@@PentangleYTwhat

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Sam Altman wanted to track your retinas to use a crypto coin he invested in

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"open ai" has been held back by the ai ethicists. But competitors are free.

[@Marauee99]

Is Altman his real name? It can’t be lol.

[@PHlophe]

Lozo, it actually is . its a ashkenazi nom de guerre

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nice! once you hit a big milestone, the next comes easier.. How can i reach him, if you don't mind me asking?

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I've just looked up his full name on my browser and found his webpage without sweat, very much appreciate this..

[@HaxxBlaster]

Lol, nice scam

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dude seriously its gonna be 10 trillion market cap 2040 mark my words

[@HaxxBlaster]

@@whisperinstrumentals It's bots having a conversation, so people will fall for the scam of paying for advice from that guy. Report them

[@arpanbag001]

Such a senseless video. It doesn't talk about how "Sam Altman Built OpenAI From a Wonky Lab Into a $86B Behemoth". It doesn't talk about how OpenAI was originally founded. It just lists some random news about OpenAI.

[@tedzards509]

From a wonky lab with principles to a soulless behemoth

[@hoo_maan8735]

This dude seems like he gets high on high on supply

[@deanswift3785]

The problem with AI is that it will never be capable of doing creative work such as coming up with a new theory in physics. This can only be done by humans.

[@AkashSingh-uk5ub]

Nahhh NVIDIA is making more than him

[@djgg8156]

Credit Elon and mention how sleazy and shady Sam is, that's the real story

[@kraz007]

Whitewashing in action

[@ahabkapitany]

Please stop referring to billionaires by their first names. They are not your pals.

[@bleeper999]

Is exactly the same as the nuclear bomb, It was inevitable that someone would make one.. nothing could have stopped that happening. So given that, the only protection society has is to support organisations and govts that are subject to the rule of law so we can protect ourselves from the one who aren't....

[@Inner_Strength_Chronicles]

Because of capitalism!! No fear of failure

[@pascalladal8125]

Man doing stuff for humanity seems highly immoral these days.. Making billions on an AI business whose competing with other AI companies to squeeze out the maximum profit out of AI. 1:40 "I think we should not focus on how I lied, deceived and and profited from people's naivety and focus on what we agree, we must get that technology right." That's the spirit!

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[@lifeofsui3864]

Wow an altruist guy named Sam…..never been scammed by one of them before….

[@jceddy1]

Yeah he's the only guy, he wrote all the cose himself. Get off of Sam's tip

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Tell us truthfully how much did Sam Altman pay you to make this?

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[@phutimanamela1214]

The way Elon Musk and his associates speaks of "the benefit of humanity" it concerns me if besides animals and the major known creatures, do they know something we do not know like aliens?

[@PHlophe]

Phuti, O Bolela masepa . we know it.

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I'm 37 and have been looking for ways to be successful, please how??

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Sure, the investment-advisor that guides me is..

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😱Sounds familiar, I have heard her name on several occasions.. and both her success stories in the wall Street journal!

[@user-de4xj5cd4o]

Where is elon?

[@issiewizzie]

where grok for the average user

[@HaxxBlaster]

Elon was one of the founders, here is the list of the founders: Elon Musk, Sam Altman, Greg Brockman, Ilya Sutskever, Wojciech Zaremba, John Schulman, Andrej Karpathy

[@_darkbrian]

out of 86b how much he had to pay you to make this??? #cheap

[@stoppernz229]

Elon built that,

[@theplacebodealer]

S(c)am Altman

[@marekkazimierczak9210]

0:30 - Sam should be more careful in choosing his wingmen... especially those on his right

[@good-tn9sr]

😂

[@mrki731]

With Elon Musk's money. That's how.

[@Mr.President.2028]

Elon millions, Microsoft billions. If I am not mistaken Elon left OpenAI because of potential conflicts of interests. Basically Elon has not achieved much in AI on his own with his billions

[@mrki731]

@@Mr.President.2028 Elon started it...

[@Mr.President.2028]

@@mrki731 The earth is flat! LOL What do you want to argue about?

[@mrki731]

@@Mr.President.2028 🤔

[@LeechyKun]

On one hand AI will make us smarter by making us learn new things, on the other, it'll make us dumber as it simplifies our workload by doing our grammar, homework, code, etc. Also, it'll harvest our data to train itself and possibly spy on you as it gets integrated into your OS. Waiting for the day a 0-day is found where it can use AI to modify your files etc.

[@willgoins218]

Frankly this is not a revolution. We know the limitations of AI

[@reng7777]

Wrong..ask GPT4o

[@camnova]

They said the same thing about automobiles

[@ggsap]

Yes, we know the limitations of AI that exist today. But this has kicked off a race to improve AI in everyway, that one day will be able to subdue most of the pressing limitations that we have today. So is it really not a revolution?

[@konstantinkudryashov9220]

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[@ACK333]

Sam XX

[@flyingface]

we know how this will turn out. $ will trump ethics. regulation needed

[@i-guitar4722]

A lot to do with Elon Musk......then he left as they became a for profit organisation without humanity's best interest at heart