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Sam Altman
Co-founder and Chief Executive Officer, OpenAI
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Sam Altman is the chief executive of OpenAI, the artificial intelligence company he co-founded in 2015. He was president of the start-up accelerator Y Combinator from 2014 to 2019, before turning full time to OpenAI. In November 2023 OpenAI's board removed him as chief executive, and he was reinstated days later alongside a reconstituted board.