OpenAI.

In their words

• Reflections In this January 2025 essay, Sam Altman looks back on OpenAI's first nine years, from ChatGPT's surprise launch to his abrupt firing by the board. He argues that building a company in a brand-new category has no handbook, and that the work forced lessons on governance, scale and changing tactics.
• How To Build The Future: Sam Altman Altman tells Garry Tan how OpenAI's first team was assembled, the bet on scaling, commercialising GPT-4, and what he'd tell early founders now.