03186cam a2200397 i 4500 2112508584 TxAuBib 20250529120000.0 250210s2025||||||||||||||||||||||||eng|u bl2025048498 9781324075967 HRD 31.99 1324075961 HRD 31.99 TxAuBib rda Hagey, Keach. The optimist [BOOK] : Sam Altman, OpenAI, and the race to invent the future / Keach Hagey. Sam Altman, OpenAI, and the race to invent the future. First Edition. New York : W. W. Norton and Company, [2025] x, 367 pages ; 24 cm. txt rdacontent n rdamedia nc rdacarrier Includes bibliographical references and index. Prologue -- Part I : 1985-2005. Chicago ; St. Louis ; "Where are you?" ; Among the "nerd's nerds" -- Part II : 2005-2012. "Stopping out" ; "Where you at?" ; From "weak" to "cool" ; The douchebag badge -- Part III : 2012-2019. "A ride on a rocket" ; "Sam Altman for president" ; "A Manhattan project for AI" ; Altruists ; Pivoting to profit -- Part IV : 2019-2024. Products ; ChatGPT ; The blip ; Prometheus unbound ; Epilogue. "On November 30, 2022, OpenAI released ChatGPT, a chatbot that captivated the world with its uncanny ability to hold humanlike conversations. Not even a year later, on November 17, 2023, Sam Altman, the CEO of OpenAI, was summarily fired on a video call by the company’s board. The firing made headlines around the globe: OpenAI is the leader in the race to build AGI—artificial general intelligence, or AI that can think like a human being—and Altman is the most prominent figure in the field. Yet it was mere days before Altman was back running the company he had co-founded, with most of the directors who voted to fire him themselves removed from the board. The episode was a demonstration of how quickly the industry is moving, and of Altman’s power to bend reality to his will. In The Optimist, the Wall Street Journal reporter Keach Hagey presents the most detailed account yet of Altman’s rise, from his precocious childhood in St. Louis to his first, failed startup experience; his time as legendary entrepreneur Paul Graham’s protégé and successor as head of Y Combinator, the start-up accelerator where Altman became the premier power broker in Silicon Valley; the founding of OpenAI and his recruitment of a small yet superior team; and his struggle to keep his company at the cutting edge while fending off determined rivals, including Elon Musk, a former friend and now Altman’s bitter opponent.". 20250529. Altman, Sam 1985- OpenAI (Firm.) Artificial intelligence. Artificial intelligence. Social aspects. Artificial intelligence. Economic aspects. Business. Human-computer interaction. Entrepreneurship. Biographies.