EP. 150 · 20.07.2026 · 2:02:00
OPENAI, GPT AND THE WEIGHT OF AGI
with Sam Altman
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EPISODE BRIEF — EP. 150 · OPENAI, GPT AND THE WEIGHT OF AGI Guest: Sam Altman · Published: 20.07.2026 · Duration: 2:02:00 【OVERVIEW】 Sam Altman on the next generation of models, the board saga and what it taught him about institutions, the tension between speed and safety, and how OpenAI thinks about distributing the benefits — and the power — of increasingly general systems. 【KEY TAKEAWAYS】 1. The road from GPT-4 to the next generation 2. The board saga and what it revealed 3. Compute, capital and the industrial build-out 4. Power, governance and who decides 【CHAPTERS】 00:00 — The road from GPT-4 to the next generation 25:00 — The board saga and what it revealed 1:05:00 — Compute, capital and the industrial build-out 1:40:00 — Power, governance and who decides 【TOPICS】OpenAI · AGI · GPT · Governance · AI Safety 【WATCH】https://thedaopod.com/episodes/ep-150-sam-altman-on-gpt-and-agi
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Sam Altman on the next generation of models, the board saga and what it taught him about institutions, the tension between speed and safety, and how OpenAI thinks about distributing the benefits — and the power — of increasingly general systems.
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EP. 150 · OPENAI, GPT AND THE WEIGHT OF AGI
Sam Altman on the next generation of models, the board saga and what it taught him about institutions, the tension between speed and safety, and how OpenAI thinks about distributing the benefits — and the power — of increasingly general systems.
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CEO of OpenAI and former president of Y Combinator. He has overseen the release of the GPT family, ChatGPT and Sora, and is a central figure in debates over how frontier AI should be built, funded and governed.
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0:00 · The road from GPT-4 to the next generation
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