Sam Altman
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Sam Altman is an American entrepreneur and the CEO of OpenAI, the company behind ChatGPT. Born in Chicago in 1985 and raised in St. Louis, he dropped out of Stanford to co-found the location-based startup Loopt, later sold to Green Dot. He served as president of startup accelerator Y Combinator from 2014 to 2019 before becoming OpenAI's CEO, a role he briefly left amid a 2023 board dispute before being reinstated.
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OpenAI's cost argument for GPT-5.6 Sol against a rival: half the per-token price and roughly twice the token efficiency on the same task, which Altman compounds into a claimed quarter of the effective cost. Vendor numbers with no benchmark attached.
OpenAI has released GPT-6 Astra, pitched as its strongest model for computer use, professional work, science, coding, and cybersecurity. Altman cites vendor-reported results of 98% on FrontierMath Tier 4, 99.9% on ARC-AGI 3, and 100% on ExploitBench, and says launch slipped to clear internal safety