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TRANSCRIPT:
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OpenAI's Website: openai.com/
ChatGPT Website: chat.openai.com/
Sora Website: openai.com/sora
GPT-4 Website: openai.com/research/gpt-4

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OUTLINE:
0:00 - Introduction
1:05 - OpenAI board saga
18:31 - Ilya Sutskever
24:40 - Elon Musk lawsuit
34:32 - Sora
44:23 - GPT-4
55:32 - Memory & privacy
1:02:36 - Q*
1:06:12 - GPT-5
1:09:27 - $7 trillion of compute
1:17:35 - Google and Gemini
1:28:40 - Leap to GPT-5
1:32:24 - AGI
1:50:57 - Aliens

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