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People behind OpenAI

Founders, operators, and researchers tracked in the TECHi AI Power List. Each card opens the full influence profile.

Sam Altman97

Sam Altman

CEO, OpenAI

Operator

Sam Altman runs OpenAI, the company whose ChatGPT put a frontier model in front of more than 900 million people a week. His current bet is that owning compute matters more than winning any single model release — a stance he doubled down on after publicly conceding the GPT-5 launch was botched.