Last year almost couldn’t have gone any better for Sam Altman, the 38-year-old CEO of OpenAI. Except for one very strange weekend in November.
It was almost exactly a year after the launch of the company’s world-changing new AI product, ChatGPT, and the company was riding high. It was valued at almost $90bn following a $10bn investment from Microsoft. From almost nowhere, it had become one of the world’s most important tech companies.
But then on the
