{"id":1048168,"date":"2026-11-09T11:35:38","date_gmt":"2026-11-09T06:05:38","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/?p=1048168"},"modified":"2026-11-09T11:35:38","modified_gmt":"2026-11-09T06:05:38","slug":"sam-altman-may-have-just-revealed-why-smartest-people-at-openai-quit-to-build-their-own-ai","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/2026\/11\/09\/sam-altman-may-have-just-revealed-why-smartest-people-at-openai-quit-to-build-their-own-ai\/","title":{"rendered":"Sam Altman may have just revealed why \u2018smartest people\u2019 at OpenAI quit to build their own AI"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>OpenAI CEO Sam Altman recently offered an explanation for why so many top researchers and executives \u2013 some of them co-founders \u2013 left the company to start their own artificial intelligence (AI) ventures. He hinted that when the stakes feel this high concerning a particular technology, people only trust themselves. In a recent exchange on Raj Shamani\u2019s podcast, Altman was asked why there appears to be so much friction in the AI industry-, and why, despite OpenAI starting the AI wave, so many people are breaking away to build their own competing projects.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cI think there is something that happens in many people&#8217;s brains where they only trust themselves to build this because the stakes feel so high,\u201d Altman said.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>OpenAI CEO Sam Altman recently offered an explanation for why so many top researchers and executives \u2013 some of them co-founders \u2013 left the company to start their own artificial intelligence (AI) ventures. He hinted that when the stakes feel this high concerning a particular technology, people only trust themselves. In a recent exchange on Raj Shamani\u2019s podcast, Altman was asked why there appears to be so much friction in the AI industry-, and why, despite OpenAI starting the AI wave, so many people are breaking away to build their own competing projects. \u201cI think there is something that happens [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":11,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[87,4,11],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1048168","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-it-2-the-times-of-india","category-newspapers","category-the-times-of-india"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1048168","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/11"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1048168"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1048168\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1048169,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1048168\/revisions\/1048169"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1048168"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1048168"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1048168"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}