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Stuart Dyos

Sam Altman says he ‘stalked’ his OpenAI cofounder to convince him to join the company

Sam Altman gesticulates during the NYT Dealbook Summit (Credit: Michael M. Santiago—Getty Images)
  • OpenAI CEO Sam Altman said he "stalked” Ilya Sutskever to convince him to join in his quest to build an artificial general intelligence, which many others were hesitant to do at the time.

Sam Altman, CEO of OpenAI, reportedly hunted down cofounder Ilya Sutskever in 2014, persuading him to join in building what would eventually become the foundation for OpenAI, the artificial intelligence startup that’s currently valued around $157 billion.

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