Sam Altman

Co-founder and CEO of OpenAI; driver of the Stargate infrastructure program.

ai infrastructure software AI Adjacency 74/100 Confidence 95%

United States
Updated 2026-09-15· listed 2026-09-15

Why it matters to AI

Sam Altman operates within the AI industrial ecosystem across ai infrastructure software. Its role sits and upstream of 1 dependencies.

AI Dependency Map

OPERATES openai 0 src· seed · 97%

Facilities

operates openai

Research

OpenAI research lab

Ecosystem Map

Neighborhood grouped by layer — click any node to explore. Depth:

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If Sam Altman disappeared

Criticality 38/100 (calculated v1 — downstream reach, substitutes, concentration, geography, uniqueness). Impact analysis →

Timeline

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Machine-readable

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