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Sam Altman on Sora, Energy, and Building an AI Empire

Podcast: AI + a16z
Published: Feb 10, 2026
Duration seconds: 2905
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Sam Altman has led OpenAI from its founding as a research nonprofit in 2015 to becoming the most valuable startup in the world ten years later. In this episode, a16z Cofounder Ben Horowitz and General Partner Erik Torenberg sit down with Sam to discuss the core thesis behind OpenAI’s disparate bets, why they released Sora, how they use models internally, the best AI evals, and where we’re going from here.