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Sam Altman on OpenAI’s next model and the AI backlash

OpenAI’s CEO on the need to slow down frontier research, Astra, competition with Anthropic, reaching AGI, and why people hate AI.

After an unreleased OpenAI model recently escaped its sandbox and hacked Hugging Face, Sam Altman tells me why the company slowed parts of its frontier research and delayed a major reinforcement-learning run: “Getting AI safety right is more important than any company’s momentum.”

We also discuss Astra, OpenAI’s next-generation family of models, which is…

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