OpenAI CEO Sam Altman became a household name after the release of OpenAI's groundbreaking AI model, ChatGPT.

Rain AI, a San Francisco-based chip startup backed by OpenAI CEO Sam Altman, is exploring a sale after its ambitious $150 million Series B funding round failed to secure investors. Despite early backing from Altman in a $25 million seed round in 2022,

OpenAI and Jony Ive's vision for its AI device is a screenless companion that knows everything about you. Details leaked to the Wall Street Journal give us a clearer picture of OpenAI's acquisition of io,

I think if this technology goes wrong, it can go quite wrong,” said Sam Altman, testifying before a Senate committee in 2023 in talking about the potential danger of artificial intelligence. With his position as CEO of OpenAI,

Well-funded and big-name partnerships often end in failure. And ex-Apple employees don’t have a great record of success.

Sam Altman has said that, while people worry about AI replacing white-collar jobs, something else will catch them off guard. In a Bloomberg interview that aired Tuesday, the OpenAI CEO said that "the world isn't ready for" humanoid robots walking down the street.

When Sam Altman first told ABC News in March 2023 that he and his OpenAI colleagues were “a little bit scared” of just how good the artificial intelligence (AI) systems they were unleashing are, it sounded like a cautious scientist’s plea for sober guardrails.

Another sci-fi plotline we might get to experience is the existence of humanoid robots. This is a tech breakthrough that the CEO of OpenAI believes the world isn't ready for. In an interview with Bloomberg,

Keach Hagey’s “The Optimist” is what could be called the authorised version. She had access to Mr Altman and many of the main characters in his story, including his family and friends. His personality is vivid and complicated enough that her story never flags. It is no hagiography.