Rowan's Notes
Sam Altman on Zero-Person AI Companies, Sora, AGI Breakthroughs, and more
Oct 7, 2025 · 30 min · 22.1 MB
0:00-30:45
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OpenAI just unveiled HUGE developer updates at DevDay 2025 - Apps in ChatGPT, Agent Builder, Sora in the API, and Codex updates that can handle day-long tasks.
In this exclusive conversation, Rowan Cheung (@rowancheung) sat down with OpenAI CEO Sam Altman (@sama) to unpack:
- Sam's Sora AI deepfakes going viral
- Zero-person billion dollar companies run by agents
- AI starting to make scientific discoveries on Twitter
- ChatGPT's 800M weekly users and the new distribution platform
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- 0:00Intro
- 0:43DevDay's biggest launches
- 2:10Agent Builder vs GPT Builder
- 3:40The no-code revolution for AI agents
- 5:17Betting pool on zero-person companies
- 6:47What would 20-year-old Sam build?
- 10:19GPT-5 vs Claude on GDPval
- 11:27When have we achieved AGI?
- 12:41Scientific breakthroughs AI will solve
- 13:56AI 'work slop' costs $186/employee
- 16:09Sam's viral Sora memes
- 20:08Revenue sharing for cameos
- 22:311B jobs are changing
- 24:32What work looks like after AGI
- 25:41Global AI safety framework
- 27:43Most exciting agents to build