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Sam Altman

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Lex Fridman Podcast
#419 โ€“ Sam Altman: OpenAI, GPT-5, Sora, Board Saga, Elon Musk, Ilya, Power & AGI

So if we can keep putting like free or low cost or free and low cost powerful AI tools out in the world, I think it's a huge deal for how we fulfill the mission. Yeah. Open source or not, yeah, I think we should open source some stuff and not other stuff. It does become this religious battle line where nuance is hard to have, but I think nuance is the right answer.

Lex Fridman Podcast
#419 โ€“ Sam Altman: OpenAI, GPT-5, Sora, Board Saga, Elon Musk, Ilya, Power & AGI

I think that speaks to the seriousness with which Elon means the lawsuit.

Lex Fridman Podcast
#419 โ€“ Sam Altman: OpenAI, GPT-5, Sora, Board Saga, Elon Musk, Ilya, Power & AGI

I think that speaks to the seriousness with which Elon means the lawsuit.

Lex Fridman Podcast
#419 โ€“ Sam Altman: OpenAI, GPT-5, Sora, Board Saga, Elon Musk, Ilya, Power & AGI

I think that speaks to the seriousness with which Elon means the lawsuit.

Lex Fridman Podcast
#419 โ€“ Sam Altman: OpenAI, GPT-5, Sora, Board Saga, Elon Musk, Ilya, Power & AGI

So look, I mean, Grok had not open sourced anything until people pointed out it was a little bit hypocritical. And then he announced that Grok will open source things this week. I don't think open source versus not is what this is really about for him.

Lex Fridman Podcast
#419 โ€“ Sam Altman: OpenAI, GPT-5, Sora, Board Saga, Elon Musk, Ilya, Power & AGI

So look, I mean, Grok had not open sourced anything until people pointed out it was a little bit hypocritical. And then he announced that Grok will open source things this week. I don't think open source versus not is what this is really about for him.

Lex Fridman Podcast
#419 โ€“ Sam Altman: OpenAI, GPT-5, Sora, Board Saga, Elon Musk, Ilya, Power & AGI

So look, I mean, Grok had not open sourced anything until people pointed out it was a little bit hypocritical. And then he announced that Grok will open source things this week. I don't think open source versus not is what this is really about for him.

Lex Fridman Podcast
#419 โ€“ Sam Altman: OpenAI, GPT-5, Sora, Board Saga, Elon Musk, Ilya, Power & AGI

Look, I think this whole thing is like unbecoming of a builder, and I respect Elon as one of the great builders of our time. I know he knows what it's like to have haters attack him. And it makes me extra sad he's doing it to us.

Lex Fridman Podcast
#419 โ€“ Sam Altman: OpenAI, GPT-5, Sora, Board Saga, Elon Musk, Ilya, Power & AGI

Look, I think this whole thing is like unbecoming of a builder, and I respect Elon as one of the great builders of our time. I know he knows what it's like to have haters attack him. And it makes me extra sad he's doing it to us.

Lex Fridman Podcast
#419 โ€“ Sam Altman: OpenAI, GPT-5, Sora, Board Saga, Elon Musk, Ilya, Power & AGI

Look, I think this whole thing is like unbecoming of a builder, and I respect Elon as one of the great builders of our time. I know he knows what it's like to have haters attack him. And it makes me extra sad he's doing it to us.

Lex Fridman Podcast
#419 โ€“ Sam Altman: OpenAI, GPT-5, Sora, Board Saga, Elon Musk, Ilya, Power & AGI

It makes me sad. And I think it makes a lot of people sad. There's a lot of people who've really looked up to him for a long time. I said in some interview or something that I miss the old Elon. And the number of messages I got being like that exactly encapsulates how I feel.

Lex Fridman Podcast
#419 โ€“ Sam Altman: OpenAI, GPT-5, Sora, Board Saga, Elon Musk, Ilya, Power & AGI

It makes me sad. And I think it makes a lot of people sad. There's a lot of people who've really looked up to him for a long time. I said in some interview or something that I miss the old Elon. And the number of messages I got being like that exactly encapsulates how I feel.

Lex Fridman Podcast
#419 โ€“ Sam Altman: OpenAI, GPT-5, Sora, Board Saga, Elon Musk, Ilya, Power & AGI

It makes me sad. And I think it makes a lot of people sad. There's a lot of people who've really looked up to him for a long time. I said in some interview or something that I miss the old Elon. And the number of messages I got being like that exactly encapsulates how I feel.

Lex Fridman Podcast
#419 โ€“ Sam Altman: OpenAI, GPT-5, Sora, Board Saga, Elon Musk, Ilya, Power & AGI

Yeah, I think there is definitely a place for open source models, particularly smaller models that people can run locally. I think there's huge demand for. I think there will be some open source models. There will be some closed source models. It won't be unlike other ecosystems in that way.

Lex Fridman Podcast
#419 โ€“ Sam Altman: OpenAI, GPT-5, Sora, Board Saga, Elon Musk, Ilya, Power & AGI

Yeah, I think there is definitely a place for open source models, particularly smaller models that people can run locally. I think there's huge demand for. I think there will be some open source models. There will be some closed source models. It won't be unlike other ecosystems in that way.

Lex Fridman Podcast
#419 โ€“ Sam Altman: OpenAI, GPT-5, Sora, Board Saga, Elon Musk, Ilya, Power & AGI

Yeah, I think there is definitely a place for open source models, particularly smaller models that people can run locally. I think there's huge demand for. I think there will be some open source models. There will be some closed source models. It won't be unlike other ecosystems in that way.

Lex Fridman Podcast
#419 โ€“ Sam Altman: OpenAI, GPT-5, Sora, Board Saga, Elon Musk, Ilya, Power & AGI

Is that something? I don't, I would heavily discourage any startup that was thinking about starting as a nonprofit and adding like a for-profit arm later. I'd heavily discourage them from doing that. I don't think we'll set a precedent here. Okay. So most, most startups should go just. For sure. And again, if we knew what was going to happen, we would have done that too.

Lex Fridman Podcast
#419 โ€“ Sam Altman: OpenAI, GPT-5, Sora, Board Saga, Elon Musk, Ilya, Power & AGI

Is that something? I don't, I would heavily discourage any startup that was thinking about starting as a nonprofit and adding like a for-profit arm later. I'd heavily discourage them from doing that. I don't think we'll set a precedent here. Okay. So most, most startups should go just. For sure. And again, if we knew what was going to happen, we would have done that too.

Lex Fridman Podcast
#419 โ€“ Sam Altman: OpenAI, GPT-5, Sora, Board Saga, Elon Musk, Ilya, Power & AGI

Is that something? I don't, I would heavily discourage any startup that was thinking about starting as a nonprofit and adding like a for-profit arm later. I'd heavily discourage them from doing that. I don't think we'll set a precedent here. Okay. So most, most startups should go just. For sure. And again, if we knew what was going to happen, we would have done that too.

Lex Fridman Podcast
#419 โ€“ Sam Altman: OpenAI, GPT-5, Sora, Board Saga, Elon Musk, Ilya, Power & AGI

I think all of these models understand something more about the world model than most of us give them credit for. And because there are also very clear things they just don't understand or don't get right, it's easy to look at the weaknesses, see through the veil, and say, oh, this is all fake. But it's not all fake. It's just some of it works and some of it doesn't work.