Person
Sam Altman
CEO of OpenAI Robotics.
United States · 5 current roles · 1 founding
Physical AI footprint (8)
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- Founder
OpenAI is a San Francisco based AI research and product company that has become one of the largest committed buyers and co-developers of datacenter capacity in
Mar 2025 round · $40B1 model - CEO
OpenAI Robotics is the in-house robotics division of OpenAI (San Francisco), publicly announced by CEO Sam Altman on X on May 31 2026.
Series B · $24M1 model - Co-Founder & CEO (OpenAI)
Stargate is the joint venture announced January 21, 2025 to build out AI-training data center capacity in the United States, with OpenAI and SoftBank each holdi
Other · $100B - Former Former Controller, OpenAI Startup Fund
Corporate venture capital arm of OpenAI that invests in early-stage AI companies pushing the boundaries of artificial intelligence.
- Portfolio company · via OpenAI
1X Technologies (formerly Halodi) is a Norwegian-Estonian humanoid robotics company developing NEO — a general-purpose home humanoid robot.
- Portfolio company · via OpenAI
Sunnyvale-based humanoid-robotics company founded in 2022, among the fastest-moving US humanoid developers from prototype to production partnership.
- Portfolio company · via OpenAI
American robotics-AI company (San Francisco, founded early 2024 by ex-[Google DeepMind](/companies/google-deepmind) researchers, Stanford/Berkeley professors, a
Series B · $600M - Portfolio company · via OpenAI
SB Energy is a [SoftBank Group](/companies/softbank-group) company and integrated data center and power infrastructure developer purpose-built for the AI econom
Strategic (NVIDIA) · $1.5B
Current roles (5)
- OpenAI CEO & Co-FounderSEC-verified
- OpenAI Robotics CEOReported, not verified
- OpenAI Chief Executive Officer and co-founderReported, not verified
- Stargate Infrastructure Co-Founder & CEO (OpenAI)
- Stargate Infrastructure Operational lead (OpenAI CEO)Reported, not verified
Foundings (1)
- OpenAIcofounder
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Co-founders (9)
- Ilya Sutskever co-founded OpenAI2015-12-11
- Wojciech Zaremba co-founded OpenAI2015-12-11
- Andrej Karpathy co-founded OpenAI2015-12-11
- Durk Kingma co-founded OpenAI2015-12-11
- Trevor Blackwell co-founded OpenAI2015-12-11
- Vicki Cheung co-founded OpenAI2015-12-11
- Pamela Vagata co-founded OpenAI2015-12-11
- Greg Brockman co-founded OpenAI2015-12-11
- John Schulman co-founded OpenAI2015-12-11
Investor roles (1)
- OpenAI general partner(strategic corporate)
Former / Previously (1)
- OpenAI Startup Fund Former Controller, OpenAI Startup FundSEC-verified
Sources (2)
Mentioned on (11)
Registry pages whose text names Sam Altman.
Companies (9)
Cerebras Systems, OpenAI, Limitless, Hermeus, OpenAI Startup Fund, OpenAI Robotics, Stargate Infrastructure, Coco Robotics, Merge Labs
People (2)
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