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• @patrick_oshag Patrick OShaughnessy on x

  My conversation with Sam Altman (@sama), CEO of OpenAI.  We discuss: - Kimi, distillation …

• @chrisgpt Chris on x

  Sam Altman: “In some sense, we are about to create a genie that can grant any wish” …

• @shakeelhashim Shakeel on x

  “We may have to pace the rate of AI development to give ourselves enough time for society to harden around these new capability levels. And trying to figure out how we do that in a way that does not feel like regulatory capture for anyone and also does not feel like collusion amo…

• @imjustnewatai @imjustnewatai on x

  openai's most important upcoming product might be a slider.  not a model picker. …

• @packym Packy McCormick on x

  Leaving aside whether you believe it, etc... just the way that Sam communicates about this stuff has gotten so good. To me, this convo is a masterclass, especially compared to even ~a year ago.

• @desfrontiertech Desmond on x

  “There's always a bottleneck, but the bottleneck moves around.” altman's chasing moving bottlenecks. he was on the phone with chip fabs, cloud providers, and energy companies.

• @blancheminerva Stella Biderman on x

  Sam has never sounded more detached from the world than he does when talking about committing a cyber attack against HF by accident. The idea that he feels the true import of this and the rest of the world isn't paying attention is blatantly false. Everyone is talking about it.

• @dee_bosa Deirdre Bosa on x

  Defense vs offense in AI Dario: crack down on industrial scale distillation bc it could bring China within months of the US frontier Sam: I'd rather ppl not distill from us but its not in my top 10 list of worries

• @andrewcurran_ Andrew Curran on x

  OpenAl and Anthropic employees are circulating a petition calling for the US government to deliberately pace Al development in order to prevent it from advancing too quickly. This is very close to language Sam Altman used in a podcast interview this morning: ‘We may have to pace …

• @hadas_gold Hadas Gold on x

  Sam Altman says the Hugging Face hack is the first security incident he felt “viscerally” and that they paused training. He is now questioning if “we may have to pace the rate of AI development to give ourselves enough time for society to harden around these new capability levels…

• @patrick_oshag Patrick OShaughnessy on x

  Sam Altman: “Concentration of power with AI is a terrifying thing.” …

• @zoharatkins Zohar Atkins on x

  Two key points here, as @sama changes course on “AI will take away our jobs” narrative. …

• @firstadopter Tae Kim on x

  On compute commitments: “We did under do it ” - Sam Altman 4:10 The Race for Compute

• @compound248 @compound248 on x

  Patrick on an epic heater over last many months, delivers another banger. This one, a long-form with Sam Altman that was recorded just this week.

• @patrick_oshag Patrick OShaughnessy on x

  Sam on Kimi, distillation, and open source: “I have always assumed that there are going to be great cheap models in the world, and we better be the greatest and the cheapest.  You get a better deal today, at least at a particular latency, using OpenAI's models than Kimi.  We dist…

• @patrick_oshag Patrick OShaughnessy on x

  Sam on the Hugging Face incident: “This is the first security incident that I have felt very viscerally.  I've been a little surprised that more people don't feel it so viscerally.  We paused training.  We have to figure out how to secure our sandboxing in a world of multiple zer…

• r/economy r on reddit

  Sam Altman says people don't really want an AI to act as CEO: ‘I think the world wants to know about the person’

• @bryce Bryce Roberts on x

  TBPN guys already completely reshaping the OAI narrative. Buckle up for a masterclass in the weeks and months ahead.

• @robjama Robleh on x

  the TBPN acquisition makes a lot of sense now

• @pentagoniac Christopher Nguyen on x

  This is a willfully misleading narrative from OpenAI.  Sam's earnest expressions are being deployed, again, to misdirect. …

• @patrick_oshag Patrick OShaughnessy on x

  Something Sam Altman doesn't want you to know about him: “I'm tired. This is the coolest job in the world. I plan to do this for the rest of my career. But it's much harder than I have a way to explain to people.” [video]

• @patrick_oshag Patrick OShaughnessy on x

  Sam on being a parent while running OpenAI: “I think I have the best, most interesting job in the world …

• r/technology r on reddit

  Sam Altman is ready to decelerate

• r/singularity r on reddit

  Sam Altman is ready to decelerate