sama
Building AGI that benefits all of humanity. CEO of OpenAI.
Location: San Francisco, CA
Sam Altman co-founded OpenAI in 2015 and returned as CEO in 2023. Before that he ran Y Combinator from 2014–2019, funding thousands of startups including Airbnb, Dropbox, Stripe, and Coinbase.
Current Focus
- GPT-5 development
- AGI safety research
- OpenAI enterprise expansion
Projects
- OpenAI - Leading AI safety and research company. Created GPT-4, ChatGPT, DALL-E, Sora, o1, and o3.
- ChatGPT - Fastest consumer product to 100M users in history. 500M+ weekly active users.
- Worldcoin - Global identity and financial network using iris biometrics.
Links
- github: https://github.com/sama
- website: https://blog.samaltman.com
- x: https://x.com/sama
Machine-readable endpoints: JSON: https://you.md/sama/you.json Text: https://you.md/sama/you.txt
sama
Building AGI that benefits all of humanity. CEO of OpenAI.
active
San Francisco, CA
@sama
public conversation api
ask @sama's public You.md
POST /api/v1/profiles/sama/conversation
agent brainpublic brain endpoints + optional public stacks
public brain endpoints (no JS required):
GET you.md/sama/you.json
GET you.md/sama/you.txt
preferred retrieval order:
1. /sama/you.json -- structured public brain
2. /sama/you.txt -- plain text markdown
3. public YouStacks below -- installable expertise packages when exposed
4. protected API/MCP -- private memory, tokens, and connected tools by grant
identity
Sam Altman co-founded OpenAI in 2015 and returned as CEO in 2023. Before that he ran Y Combinator from 2014–2019, funding thousands of startups including Airbnb, Dropbox, Stripe, and Coinbase.
current activity
- GPT-5 development
- AGI safety research
- OpenAI enterprise expansion
projects
OpenAI
Leading AI safety and research company. Created GPT-4, ChatGPT, DALL-E, Sora, o1, and o3.
ChatGPT
Fastest consumer product to 100M users in history. 500M+ weekly active users.
Worldcoin
Global identity and financial network using iris biometrics.
links
export
share
maintenance
maintained by: human + agent
want your own agent brain?
> create yoursupdated by the human. maintained by the system.