Sam Altman Unleashed

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One of the greatest pleasures in seeing millennials found and run companies is the final falling away of the facade of fakeness that is expected of all businesspeople. OpenAI’s Sam Altman did not disappoint recently:

• Just before the Wall Street Journal report on the $7 trillion fundraising, possibly in response to a request for comment:

• Shortly thereafter, in response to his brother, Jack, who had complained of being forever titled “brother of Sam Altman,”

• In response to why he’s suddenly posting

• How many GPUs can you buy with $7 trillion?

• Was this a burn or just friendly banter? Alex Wang is the founder and CEO of ScaleAI, which does a lot of the human feedback training for large AI companies. Scale’s revenue tripled last year… off the backs of firms like OpenAI.

• Alternate uses of trillions

• More banter with brother Jack

• which continued

• Of course, it was not all play

• The inside joke below being that Roon (@tszzl), an OpenAI employee, had disappeared from Twitter for 3 days after a series of angsty adolescent tweets, leaving his 100k+ followers lost

• Mr Beast, probably the most famous and richest Youtuber of all time, hijacking the thread to make a plea for funding below

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