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Sam Altman on Sora, Energy, and Building an AI Empire

2025-10-08 00:00:00 +0000 UTC ·48m 25s ·by Andreessen Horowitz
Sam Altman on Sora, Energy, and Building an AI Empire
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Sam Altman has led OpenAI from its founding as a research nonprofit in 2015 to becoming the most valuable startup in the world ten years later. In this episode, a16z Cofounder Ben Horowitz and General Partner Erik Torenberg sit down with Sam to discuss the core thesis behind OpenAI’s disparate bets,