Sam Altman on Zero-Person AI Companies, Sora, AGI Breakthroughs, and more

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Rowan Cheung interviews Sam Altman about recent OpenAI developments and the future of AI.

OpenAI just unveiled HUGE developer updates at DevDay 2025 - Apps in ChatGPT, Agent Builder, Sora in the API, and Codex updates that can handle day-long tasks. In this exclusive conversation, Rowan Cheung (@rowancheung) sat down with OpenAI CEO Sam Altman (@sama) to unpack: Sam's Sora AI deepfakes going viralZero-person billion dollar companies run by agentsAI starting to make scientific discoveries on Twitter ChatGPT's 800M weekly users and the new distribution platform__ Join our dail...

People in this episode

Host: Rowan Cheung

Guest: Sam Altman

Topics covered

• AI development
• OpenAI updates
• Sora AI
• Zero-person companies
• AGI breakthroughs

Keywords

• OpenAI
• Sam Altman
• Sora
• ChatGPT
• AI breakthroughs
• Zero-person companies
• DevDay 2025

Mentioned in this episode

Organizations: OpenAI

Products: Sora, ChatGPT, Codex

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