Sam Altman on Zero-Person AI Companies, Sora, AGI Breakthroughs, and more
OpenAI just unveiled HUGE developer updates at DevDay 2025 - Apps in ChatGPT, Agent Builder, Sora API, and Codex updates that can handle day-long tasks. I sat down with Sam Altman for an exclusive interview about going viral on Sora, zero-person companies, and why he believes early AGI-like breakthroughs are starting to happen NOW. In this conversation, we unpack: - Sam's Sora AI deepfakes going viral - Zero-person billion dollar companies run by agents - AI starting to make scientific discoveries on Twitter - ChatGPT's 800M users and the new distribution platform Get 5-minute daily updates on the latest AI news: https://www.therundown.ai/subscribe Chapters: 0:00 Intro 0:43 DevDay's biggest launches 2:10 Agent Builder vs GPT Builder 3:40 The no-code revolution for AI agents 5:20 Betting pool on zero-person companies 6:50 What would 20-year-old Sam build? 10:22 GPT-5 vs Claude on GDPval 11:30 When have we achieved AGI? 12:44 Scientific breakthroughs AI will solve 13:59 AI 'work slop' costs $186/employee 16:12 Sam's viral Sora memes 20:11 Revenue sharing for cameos 22:33 1B jobs are changing 24:35 What work looks like after AGI 25:44 Global AI safety framework 27:46 Most exciting agents to build Follow me on Twitter/X: https://x.com/rowancheung Follow me on LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/rowan-cheung-6309b01bb/ Follow me on Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/rowancheung/ Follow me on Threads: https://www.threads.net/@rowancheung Listen on Spotify: https://open.spotify.com/show/2zQpIc96gbruTylpzo9dVY?si=0cab7cb4091040ee Listen on Apple Podcasts: https://podcasts.apple.com/ca/podcast/the-ai-news-rundown/id1689006106 Join the AI University: https://rundown.ai/ai-university/ #chatgpt #openai #ai #artificialintelligence
