Sam Altman Is the Most Silicon Valley Man Alive

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Sam Altman, the chief executive officer of OpenAI, shot to tech stardom with the release of ChatGPT. His company became one of the most valuable startups in the world, and for much of 2023, he was treated like an ambassador for the artificial intelligence future: zipping around the globe, meeting with world leaders. But how did he come to amass so much power?