OpenAI would probably not have been possible without the changes Y Combinator brought to the startup ecosystem, such as young technical founders raising lots of capital without a proven resume.

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• A startup should not begin life as a nonprofit and bolt a for-profit arm on later, whatever OpenAI's own history suggests. SASam Altman18 Mar 2024OpenAIstartups
• OpenAI's claim that DeepSeek trained on its outputs is narrative management: other startups bootstrapped exactly that way and were never banned for it. NLNathan Lambert3 Feb 2025OpenAIstartups
• A PHP vulnerability found with GPT-5.6 Sol will cause havoc this week. PSPeter Steinberger21 Oct 2026OpenAI
• A tiny language model inventing a plausible-sounding name is the same phenomenon as a large one confidently stating a false fact. AKAndrej Karpathy12 Feb 2026OpenAI
• Advertising was a necessary phase for the internet but a momentary industry, and an AI people pay for is better because they know the answers are not influenced by advertisers. SASam Altman18 Mar 2024OpenAI

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