OpenAI chief Sam Altman named a billionaire by Forbes, just a week after Taylor Swift
The Hindu
OpenAI CEO Sam Altman has been named a billionaire by Forbes, with a large part of his wealth coming from personal investments in companies such as Reddit and Stripe.
OpenAI CEO Sam Altman has been named a billionaire by Forbes, with a large part of his wealth coming from personal investments in companies such as Reddit and Stripe, as well as property in California and Hawaii.
Altman, 38, joined the list just a week after pop idol Taylor Swift and he currently holds the 2,692nd rank in the list of billionaires compiled by the finance magazine.
At the top of the list was LVMH Moët Hennessy Louis Vuitton founder Bernard Arnault, followed by Tesla chief Elon Musk, former Amazon head Jeff Bezos, and Meta head Mark Zuckerberg.
Altman is also investing in nuclear energy and has backed the energy company Helion, as well as the human health startup Retro Biosciences.
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Altman did not take any equity stake in OpenAI upon adding the for-profit OpenAI LP entity in 2019, reported the Semafor outlet.
Apart from working on ChatGPT, which launched in late 2022 to become a top consumer app in 2023 that sparked a generative AI race between Big Tech giants Microsoft and Google, Altman is linked to the Worldcoin cryptocurrency project.
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