{"id":685355,"date":"2025-08-16T02:05:12","date_gmt":"2025-08-15T23:05:12","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/buradabiliyorum.com\/en\/sam-altman-over-bread-rolls-explores-life-after-gpt-5\/"},"modified":"2025-08-16T02:05:12","modified_gmt":"2025-08-15T23:05:12","slug":"sam-altman-over-bread-rolls-explores-life-after-gpt-5","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/buradabiliyorum.com\/en\/sam-altman-over-bread-rolls-explores-life-after-gpt-5\/","title":{"rendered":"Sam Altman, over bread rolls, explores life after GPT-5"},"content":{"rendered":"
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I\u2019m looking out at Alcatraz Island from a Mediterranean restaurant in San Francisco with hundred-dollar fish entrees on the menu. As I make small talk with other reporters, OpenAI CEO Sam Altman jumps through the door on my left. Altman\u2019s looking down at his bare iPhone to show us all something, and an intrusive thought slips out of my mouth: \u201cNo phone case is a bold choice.\u201d<\/p>\n

Of course, I immedia<\/a>tely realize that the billionaire CEO of OpenAI, who employs App<\/a>le veteran Jony Ive, cares more about preserving the iPhone\u2019s original design than the $1,000 it costs to replace one.<\/p>\n

\u201cListen, we\u2019re going to ship a device that is going to be so beautiful,\u201d said Altman, referring to OpenAI and Ive\u2019s forthcoming AI device. \u201cIf you put a case over it, I will personally hunt you down,\u201d he joked.<\/p>\n

Altman had gathered roughly a dozen tech reporters to join him and other OpenAI executives for an on-the-record dinner (and off-the-record dessert). The night raised more questions than it answered.<\/p>\n

For instance, why is Nick Turley, the VP of ChatGPT, kindly passing me a lamb skewer just a week after launching GPT-5? Was this to make me write nice things about OpenAI\u2019s biggest AI model launch yet, which was relatively disappointing given the years of hype around it?<\/p>\n

Unlike GPT-4, which far outpaced rivals and challenged expectations of what AI can do, GPT-5 performs roughly on par with models from Google and Anthropic. OpenAI even brought back GPT-4o, and ChatGPT\u2019s model picker, after several users expressed concerns over GPT-5\u2019s tone and its model router.<\/p>\n

But throughout the night, it became clear to me that this dinner was about OpenAI\u2019s future beyond GPT-5. OpenAI\u2019s executives gave the impression that AI model launches are less important than they were when GPT-4 launched in 2023. After all, OpenAI is a very different company now, focused on upending legacy players in search, consumer hardware, and enterprise software.<\/p>\n

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OpenAI shared some new details about those efforts.<\/p>\n

Altman said OpenAI\u2019s incoming CEO of applications, Fidji Simo, would oversee multiple consumer apps outside of ChatGPT \u2014 ones OpenAI has yet to launch. Simo is slated to start work at OpenAI in just a few weeks, and she might end up overseeing the launch of an AI-powered browser that OpenAI is reportedly developing to compete with Chrome.<\/p>\n

Altman suggested OpenAI would even consider buying Chrome \u2014 likely an offer that would be taken more seriously than Perplexity\u2019s bid \u2014 should it become available. \u201cIf Chrome is really going to sell, we should take a look at it,\u201d he said, before looking at all of us and asking: \u201cIs it actually going to sell? I assumed it wasn\u2019t gonna happen.\u201d<\/p>\n

Simo also might end up running an AI-powered social media app \u2014 something the OpenAI CEO said he\u2019s interested in exploring. In fact, Altman says there\u2019s \u201cnothing\u201d inspiring to him about the way AI is used on social media today, adding that he\u2019s interested in \u201cwhether or not it is possible to build a much cooler kind of social experience with AI.\u201d<\/p>\n

While Turley and Brad Lightcap, OpenAI\u2019s COO, largely gave the floor to Altman, drinking wine alongside the other seated guests, Altman also confirmed reports that OpenAI plans to back a brain-computer interface startup, Merge Labs, to compete with Elon Musk\u2019s Neuralink. (\u201cWe have not done that deal yet; I would like us to.\u201d) <\/p>\n

How intertwined that company will be with OpenAI\u2019s models and devices remains to be seen. Altman described it only as a \u201ca company that we\u2019d invest in.\u201d<\/p>\n

Given all these bets \u2014 and others OpenAI is making around data centers, robotics, and energy \u2014 Altman clearly has ambitions of running a much bigger company than just the ChatGPT maker. The final form could look something like Google\u2019s parent Alphabet, but perhaps even broader.<\/p>\n

In the coming years, it seems likely that OpenAI will go public to meet its massive capital demands. In preparation for that, I think Altman wants to hone his relationship with the media. However, I think OpenAI also wants to get to a place where it\u2019s no longer defined by its best AI model. <\/p>\n<\/div>\n

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