Episode
Sam Altman - How to Make an Abundant Future - [Invest Like the Best, EP.484]
Invest Like the Best with Patrick O'Shaughnessy · Jul 28, 2026 · 54 min
My guest today is Sam Altman, CEO of OpenAI. It's a conversation spanning the history, present, and future of OpenAI, from the origin of ChatGPT through Codex, hardware, and their new Jalapeno chip. We discuss the early decision to buy compute at a scale nobody thought was rational, and the plan to build a gigawatt of new capacity every week. We talk about Kimi and distillation, the Hugging Face…