タグ: sam altman

How much energy does ChatGPT use? A single query uses about 0.34 watt-hours of electricity, according to OpenAI CEO Sam Altman, roughly what an oven draws in a little over one second. Independent analysis by Epoch AI puts a typical GPT-4o query near 0.3 Wh, about the same as one Google search. The catch is that heavier models reverse this; researchers estimate GPT-5 averages around 18 watt-hours per query, with complex answers reaching 40 Wh. Across 2.5 billion queries a day, even the small number adds up to roughly 310 GWh a year. This guide gives you a dated, sourced answer for every version of the question, so per query, […]

Sam Altman is (1) the CEO of OpenAI, (2) the executive who steered the launch of ChatGPT in November 2022, (3) the former president of startup accelerator Y Combinator, (4) a billionaire venture investor worth an estimated $2 to $3.3 billion as of May 2026, and (5) one of the most influential people in artificial intelligence. Sam is 41 years old and 5 feet 6 inches tall. He was born to a Jewish family in Chicago on April 22, 1985. He has been married to Australian software engineer Oliver Mulherin since January 2024. This article covers Sam Altman’s full biography in one place. It runs from his Stanford dropout days […]

ChatGPT was created by OpenAI, an artificial intelligence research company founded on December 11, 2015 by Sam Altman, Greg Brockman, Ilya Sutskever, Elon Musk, Wojciech Zaremba, John Schulman and a small group of researchers. ChatGPT itself was built by OpenAI’s research team and launched publicly on November 30, 2022. It reached 1 million users in 5 days and 100 million monthly users in 2 months, the fastest consumer product adoption in history at that point. The short answer is “OpenAI built it,” but the longer answer is more interesting. ChatGPT did not appear out of nowhere. It sat on top of a decade of work, a controversial Elon Musk exit, […]

For past couple of years, Silicon Valley has treated artificial intelligence as the ultimate gold rush. Investors have poured hundreds of billions of dollars into data centers, chips, and model training. Startups have rebranded overnight as “AI companies.” Giants like Meta, Microsoft, Google, and Amazon are racing to out-spend one another in a frenzy that feels oddly familiar. Now, some of the same people leading the boom are starting to sound alarms. The idea that artificial intelligence (AI) could be in a speculative bubble is gaining traction among senior tech leaders. On the one hand, many believe AI has transformative potential. On the other, they are warning that current investment, valuations […]

2025年9月22日、NvidiaとOpenAIは、$1,000億ドルの投資と10ギガワット相当のAIデータセンターを展開する計画を含む戦略的パートナーシップという、前例のない大胆な動きで注目を集めた。この契約は、世界トップのチップメーカーとChatGPTを支える最も強力なAIラボとの長期的かつ構造的な提携を意味する。この提携はチップの購入にとどまらない。Nvidiaは新しいデータセンターが稼働するにつれてOpenAIに徐々に投資し、OpenAIはNvidiaに数百万GPUを現金で支払う。彼らはまた、将来のハードウェアとソフトウェアを共同で設計し、事実上、NvidiaをOpenAIの優先サプライヤーとして、また、次世代AIを構築するための戦略的パートナーとして固定する。

もしあなたが今後数年で大学を卒業するのであれば、誰もが予測できないほどのスピードで変化する雇用市場に足を踏み入れることになる。一部のAIリーダーによれば、エントリーレベルのホワイトカラーの仕事の半分は5年以内に自動化される可能性がある一方、この世代は一人起業家として10億ドル規模の企業を立ち上げるのに役立つツールを利用できると主張する人もいる。これらの予測の隔たりは、仕事の未来がいかに不確かなものになっているかを明らかにしている。セールスフォースは最近、AI能力を理由に4,000人の雇用を削減した。他の企業も、人工知能が仕事を処理できる特定の職務を廃止しようとしている。一方、若い起業家たちは、こうした [...] 続きを読む

つい最近まで、一個人が10億ドル規模の会社を立ち上げるというアイデアは、まるでSFのようだった。ユニコーンを立ち上げるには、何年もの仕事、何十人、いや何百人もの従業員、何百万ドルものベンチャーキャピタル、そしてちょっとした運が必要だった。しかし2025年、AIエージェントの急速な進化のおかげで、そのパラダイムは急速に変わりつつある。OpenAIのCEOであるサム・アルトマンは最近、初の “一人で10億ドルを稼ぐ企業 ”の到来を予測し、話題を呼んだ。ダボスで開催された世界経済フォーラムでは、技術界のリーダーたちがその思いを口にした。そして今、ソロ・ユニコーンのビジョンを単なる思考実験以上のものにする戦略、ツール、ビジネスモデルを備えた実例やプレイブックが登場し始めている。時代は [...］

The question hanging over Silicon Valley right now is one that makes investors nervous – are we living through another tech bubble? With AI companies burning through hundreds of billions in funding and Nvidia alone worth more than the entire GDP of Canada, the scale of investment feels weirdly familiar to anyone who lived through the dotcom crash of 2000. Data center buildouts to support AI are expected to cost $364 billion in 2025 – making the entire cloud revolution look small in comparison. Meanwhile, a recent MIT study dropped a bombshell: 95% of enterprise AI projects are delivering zero return on investment. That’s a lot of money chasing very […]

It sounds like something from a sci-fi movie: the same tech billionaires shaping our digital future are quietly preparing for a much darker one. From private bunkers in Hawaii to fortified basements and New Zealand hideouts, several AI leaders are investing heavily in survival infrastructure. Some of the most influential people in tech are quietly preparing for worst-case scenarios. They are heavily involved in AI, automation, and platforms that billions rely on daily. Their decisions to invest in bunkers or remote shelters raise a practical question: why now, and what are they preparing for? Let’s break down what’s really going on—who’s building what, where, and why—and then explore the bigger picture […]

OpenAI just dropped GPT-5, the most anticipated AI model release of 2025. After months of speculation and hype surrounding what many expected to be a revolutionary leap toward artificial general intelligence, the company has finally unveiled its latest flagship model. With ChatGPT now serving 700 million weekly users worldwide, the pressure was on OpenAI to deliver something truly groundbreaking. GPT-5 arrives as a unified system rather than a single model, designed to automatically choose the right approach for each task. Sam Altman positioned this release as bringing “a team of PhD-level experts in your pocket,” promising significant improvements in reasoning, coding, health advice, and creative tasks. The lineup includes multiple […]