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Sam Altman

What Sam Altman thinks about open source

@sam-altman · 65 positions · 0 changes of mind

Co-founder and CEO of OpenAI; previously president of Y Combinator.

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  1. Our readingStandards should help prevent the concentration of power, including by ensuring new companies and open-model companies can compete.

    Their wordsStandards should help prevent the concentration of power, including by making sure new companies and open-model companies can compete.

    ↗@sama on Xx.com

  2. 7 weeks earlier

  3. Our readingKeeping powerful models available only to a chosen few is not a good strategy.

    Their wordswe do not think it is a good strategy to keep powerful models to a chosen few.

    ↗@sama on Xx.com

  4. 2 years earlier

  5. Our readingThe openness that matters is putting increasingly powerful tools into people's hands for free as a public good, not open-sourcing the weights.

    Their wordsWe want to put increasingly powerful tools in the hands of people for free and get them to use them. I think that kind of open is really important to our mission. I think if you give people great tools and teach them to use them or don’t even teach them, they’ll figure it out, and let them go build an incredible future for each other with that, that’s a big deal.

    ↗Sam Altman: OpenAI, GPT-5, Sora, Board Saga, Elon Musk, Ilya, Power & AGI | Lex Fridman Podcast #419youtube.com 3rd of 20 in this recording