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> ... Sam Altman (CEO) ...

Was this announced before or is this the first time they've mentioned it?

>>m_ke+(OP)
It was tangentially implied in the "YC Updates" thread from a few days ago, where it mentioned Sam "stepping away" to "focus on open.ai".

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>>eitall+z1
I did not think this was implied by the previous statement. But I have not been following org structure of openai at all.

>>m_ke+(OP)
Nope, it was mentioned last Friday in a blog post (that he was stepping down from YC):

And TechCrunch had a source last Friday as well that said Altman intended to become CEO of OpenAI: