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Published · transcript-backedSam Altman: uncertainty
5 Nov 2025 Conversations with Tyler Sam Altman on Trust, Persuasion, and the Future of Intelligence - Live at the Progress Conference
“Look, I don’t know if this is going to turn out to be a good sign or a bad sign, but our chip team feels more like the OpenAI research team than a chip company.”
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- Sam Altman
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- uncertainty
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- 5 Nov 2025
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- Conversations with Tyler
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…I visited Nvidia earlier this year. They were great. They were great to me. They’re super smart, but it just felt so different from walking the floor of OpenAI. I’m sure you’ve been to Nvidia. People read Twitter less. At least on the surface, they’re less weird. What is that intangible difference in the hardware world that one has to grasp to do well in it? Look, I don’t know if this is going to turn out to be a good sign or a bad sign, but our chip team feels more like the OpenAI research team than a chip company. I think it might work out phenomenally well. You’re extending the model —…
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