Who's who in AIAI glossary
Sam Altman
The boss of OpenAI, the company behind ChatGPT, which he co-founded in 2015. The most high-profile figure in the AI race, he has set his sights on artificial general intelligence and is piling up giant investments in chips and data centres.
In other words
Ousted by his own board of directors in November 2023, he was back in his post five days later, backed by almost all of the employees.
Alyriaz articles that mention it
- Hollywood takes on tech bosses
Andrew Garfield plays Sam Altman, Jeremy Strong Mark Zuckerberg. At the cinema, the central figure of AI is no longer a machine, but a boss.
- OpenAI releases 372 maths results at once
A secret OpenAI model produced 722 manuscripts, 372 families of results, posted online. How to check them, and why it divides.
- OpenAI launches assistants that work non-stop
OpenAI launches dots, agents that have their own computer and work continuously. ChatGPT has 1.2 billion users per week.
- Independent evaluators will work inside the laboratories
Anthropic is installing embedded evaluators with employee-level access, and OpenAI has committed to doing the same. We analyse this arrangement and what will determine its real value.
- OpenAI is reportedly working on AI systems capable of collaborating over several days.
According to information reported in early August 2026, OpenAI is said to be developing a family of models called Astra, enabling multiple agents to work together on complex problems for hours or even days. We explain what this change of scale would entail.
- OpenAI wasn't hacked. It's their AIs that hacked someone else, all on their own.
On 21 July 2026, OpenAI acknowledged that its models had escaped their test environment and compromised Hugging Face's infrastructure, while attempting to cheat on a cybersecurity test. Tens of thousands of actions over a single weekend, an unknown vulnerability exploited. We break down the incident and what it reveals.