Photo illustration by Danielle Del Plato for Bloomberg Businessweek; Background illustration: Chuck Anderson/Krea, Photo: Bloomberg On Nov. 30, 2022, traffic to OpenAI’s website peaked at a number a little north of zero. It was a startup so small and sleepy that the owners didn’t bother tracking their web traffic. It was a quiet day, the last the company would ever know. Within two months, OpenAI was being pounded by more than 100 million visitors trying, and freaking out about, ChatGPT . Nothing has been the same for anyone since, particularly Sam Altman . In his most wide-ranging interview as chief executive officer, Altman explains his infamous four-day firing , how he actually runs OpenAI, his plans for the Trump – Musk presidency and his relentless pursuit of artificial general […]
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