#419 – Sam Altman: OpenAI, GPT-5, Sora, Board Saga, Elon Musk, Ilya, Power & AGI

Sam Altman is the CEO of OpenAI, the company behind GPT-4, ChatGPT,
Sora, and many other state-of-the-art AI technologies. Please
support this podcast by checking out our sponsors: - Cloaked:
https://cloaked.com/lex and use code LexPod to get 25% off -
Shopify: https://shopify.com/lex to get $1 per month trial -
BetterHelp: https://betterhelp.com/lex to get 10% off - ExpressVPN:
https://expressvpn.com/lexpod to get 3 months free Transcript:
https://lexfridman.com/sam-altman-2-transcript EPISODE LINKS: Sam's
X: https://x.com/sama Sam's Blog: https://blog.samaltman.com/
OpenAI's X: https://x.com/OpenAI OpenAI's Website:
https://openai.com ChatGPT Website: https://chat.openai.com/ Sora
Website: https://openai.com/sora GPT-4 Website:
https://openai.com/research/gpt-4 PODCAST INFO: Podcast website:
https://lexfridman.com/podcast Apple Podcasts:
https://apple.co/2lwqZIr Spotify: https://spoti.fi/2nEwCF8 RSS:
https://lexfridman.com/feed/podcast/ YouTube Full Episodes:
https://youtube.com/lexfridman YouTube Clips:
https://youtube.com/lexclips SUPPORT & CONNECT: - Check out the
sponsors above, it's the best way to support this podcast - Support
on Patreon: https://www.patreon.com/lexfridman - Twitter:
https://twitter.com/lexfridman - Instagram:
https://www.instagram.com/lexfridman - LinkedIn:
https://www.linkedin.com/in/lexfridman - Facebook:
https://www.facebook.com/lexfridman - Medium:
https://medium.com/@lexfridman OUTLINE: Here's the timestamps for
the episode. On some podcast players you should be able to click
the timestamp to jump to that time. (00:00) - Introduction (07:51)
- OpenAI board saga (25:17) - Ilya Sutskever (31:26) - Elon Musk
lawsuit (41:18) - Sora (51:09) - GPT-4 (1:02:18) - Memory &
privacy (1:09:22) - Q* (1:12:58) - GPT-5 (1:16:13) - $7 trillion of
compute (1:24:22) - Google and Gemini (1:35:26) - Leap to GPT-5
(1:39:10) - AGI (1:57:44) - Aliens