Sam Altman
American entrepreneur and investor
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| March 20 2025 | Altman is set to host a fundraiser in San Francisco for Senator Mark Warner, a Democrat up for re-election in 2026 in Virginia. |
| February 22 2025 | Altman announced the birth of his premature son, who was doing well. |
| February 10 2025 | Elon Musk offered $97.4 billion to purchase OpenAI from Altman, which Altman declined. |
| January 2025 | Altman's sister Ann Altman filed a lawsuit alleging sexual abuse, which Altman and his family denied in a joint statement. |
| 2024 | Named one of the 100 most influential people in AI by Time magazine. |
| 2024 | Xfund awarded Altman the annual Experiment Cup at an event held at Harvard University. |
| 2024 | Altman suggested a new type of UBI called 'universal basic compute' to provide everyone a 'slice' of ChatGPT's computing power. |
| 2024 | It was reported that Altman would donate $1 million to the Inaugural Fund for President-elect Donald Trump. |
| December 2024 | Reported to be planning a $1 million donation to the Inaugural Fund for President Donald Trump. |
| November 18 2024 | San Francisco Mayor-Elect Daniel Lurie appointed Altman to his transition team. |
| October 2024 | Nobel Prize winner Geoffrey Hinton publicly expressed pride in Ilya Sutskever's role in firing Sam Altman from OpenAI. |
| May 2024 | Altman and Mulherin committed to giving away most of their wealth by signing the Giving Pledge. |
| May 2024 | Altman faced accusations of lying regarding his knowledge of an equity cancellation provision for departing employees after non-disparagement agreements were exposed. |
| May 2024 | Former board member Helen Toner explained the rationale for Altman's firing, alleging withholding of information and reports of 'psychological abuse' from Altman. |
| May 2024 | Oklo Inc. completed a merger with AltC Acquisition Corp, allowing it to become a public company, and Altman remained as chairman of Oklo post-merger. |
| March 2024 | Altman debuted on the Bloomberg Billionaires Index with an estimated net worth of $2 billion. |
| March 8 2024 | OpenAI announced that Sam Altman would rejoin the board of directors after a review by law firm WilmerHale. |
| February 2024 | The U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission reportedly began investigating OpenAI over potential misleading of investors through internal communications made by Sam Altman. |
| February 2024 | In late February 2024, Elon Musk sued OpenAI and Altman, alleging they broke the company’s founding agreement by giving priority to profit over benefit to humanity. |
| January 2024 | Altman married engineer Oliver Mulherin at their estate in Hawaii. |
| 2023 | Altman was involved in boosting Representative Dean Phillips' challenge to President Joe Biden for the Democratic nomination. |
| 2023 | Invited to attend the Bilderberg Meeting. |
| 2023 | Altman was named one of the 100 most influential people in the world and CEO of the Year by Time magazine. |
| 2023 | Altman was included in Time's list of the 100 most influential people in AI. |
| December 8 2023 | The UK Competition and Markets Authority announced a preliminary investigation into Microsoft's relationship with OpenAI and its non-voting board observership. |
| November 2023 | Prior to his removal, Altman was actively seeking billions from Middle Eastern sovereign wealth funds to develop an AI chip to compete with Nvidia, and was exploring AI hardware development with Masayoshi Son and Jony Ive. |
| November 2023 | The Southern New York U.S. Attorney's Office opened an investigation into Sam Altman's statements. |
| November 2023 | At the 2023 DealBook Summit, Elon Musk publicly commented on Altman's removal, describing the situation as 'troubling' and expressing 'mixed feelings'. |
| November 2023 | Altman attends OpenAI's DevDay conference, where he announces the GPT-4 Turbo platform, showcasing the company's latest AI technological advancements. |
| November 22 2023 | Over 700 OpenAI employees published an open letter to the board, threatening to leave and join Microsoft unless Altman was reinstated as CEO. |
| November 22 2023 | Reports emerge suggesting Altman's dismissal might be related to OpenAI's secretive Q* project, which allegedly demonstrated breakthrough AI capabilities in mathematical reasoning. |
| November 20 2023 | Microsoft CEO Satya Nadella announced that Sam Altman would be joining Microsoft to lead a new advanced AI research team. |
| November 20 2023 | Late at night, OpenAI announced they had reached an 'agreement in principle' for Altman's return as CEO. |
| November 18 2023 | After Altman's removal, it was reported that he and the OpenAI board were in talks to bring him back. |
| November 17 2023 | OpenAI's board announced the removal of Sam Altman as CEO, citing that he 'was not consistently candid in his communications.' |
| November 17 2023 | Hours after Altman's removal, Greg Brockman resigned as chairman, along with several researchers including Szymon Sidor. |
| November 17 2023 | Mira Murati was immediately appointed as interim CEO following Altman's removal. |
| November 17 2023 | Altman was informed of his removal via Google Meet while watching the Las Vegas Grand Prix, approximately five to ten minutes before the official announcement. |
| October 2023 | Altman reduces Ilya Sutskever's role in the organization, escalating internal tensions and divisions. |
| September 2023 | The government of Indonesia issued the country's first 'golden visa', a 10-year border pass, to Altman. |
| May 2023 | Altman conducted a world tour, visiting 22 countries and meeting multiple world leaders including Rishi Sunak, Emmanuel Macron, Pedro Sánchez, Olaf Scholz, Narendra Modi, Yoon Suk-yeol, Isaac Herzog, and taking a photo with Ursula von der Leyen. |
| May 2023 | Following the success of ChatGPT, Altman embarked on a world tour visiting 22 countries, meeting several world leaders. |
| May 16 2023 | Altman testified before the United States Senate Judiciary Subcommittee on Privacy, Technology and the Law regarding AI oversight. |
| March 2023 | During a depositor run on Silicon Valley Bank, Altman provided capital to multiple startups. |
| 2022 | Invited to attend the Bilderberg Meeting. |
| November 2022 | OpenAI releases ChatGPT, a groundbreaking chatbot that contributes to a significant resurgence in generative artificial intelligence funding. |
| 2021 | Altman wrote a blog post titled 'Moore's Law for Everything', expressing his belief that AI could generate $13,500 of yearly UBI in the United States within ten years. |
| 2021 | Altman co-founded AltC Acquisition Corp with investment banker Michael Klein, where he serves as CEO. |
| 2020 | During the COVID-19 pandemic, Altman helped fund and create Project Covalence to support rapid clinical trial launches in partnership with TrialSpark. |
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