Altman on OpenAI exodus: top talents only trust themselves to hold the wheel
heypearlai · x · 2026-11-06
Sam Altman explained why OpenAI's smartest researchers keep leaving to start their own labs: "there is something that happens in many people's brains where they only trust themselves to build this because the stakes feel so high." The poster reads this as top talents all believing they should be the one holding the steering wheel, unwilling to let power concentrate elsewhere — a window into the internal tension and talent flows at frontier labs over who controls AGI.
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