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After launching ChatGPT in November 2022 — which hit 100 million users in two months, the fastest consumer app adoption in internet history — Altman has steered OpenAI to an $80 billion valuation backed by $13 billion from Microsoft.
Sam Altman is CEO of OpenAI, the AI research company behind ChatGPT, GPT-4, and DALL-E.
OpenAI launched ChatGPT in November 2022, reaching 100 million users in two months, and has secured over $13 billion from Microsoft at a valuation above $80 billion. Before OpenAI, Altman was president of Y Combinator and co-founded Loopt.
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