{"slug": "quoting-sam-altman", "title": "Quoting Sam Altman", "summary": "OpenAI CEO Sam Altman told the board in an October 2022 email that the company should soon release a GPT-3-class language model that runs locally on consumer hardware, arguing the move would discourage competitors like Stability AI from releasing similar models and make it harder for new efforts to get funded. The email was exposed in the 2026 Musk v. Altman lawsuit.", "body_md": "We have been having extensive discussions around open source strategy. We will discuss it more at our next board meeting, but one thing we’d like to do soon is to create a language model with the approximate capability of GPT-3 that can run locally on consumer hardware and release that. We’d like to do it soon, before Stability or someone else does. In general, we think this helps discourage others from releasing similarly-powerful models, and makes it harder for new efforts to get funded.\n\n— [Sam Altman](https://twitter.com/techemails/status/2078854346683678927), Email to OpenAI's board, October 1, 2022 - exposed in Musk v. Altman (2026)\n\nTags: [ai-ethics](https://simonwillison.net/tags/ai-ethics), [sam-altman](https://simonwillison.net/tags/sam-altman), [generative-ai](https://simonwillison.net/tags/generative-ai), [openai](https://simonwillison.net/tags/openai), [ai](https://simonwillison.net/tags/ai), [llms](https://simonwillison.net/tags/llms)", "url": "https://wpnews.pro/news/quoting-sam-altman", "canonical_source": "https://simonwillison.net/2026/Jul/20/sam-altman/#atom-everything", "published_at": "2026-07-20 03:47:59+00:00", "updated_at": "2026-07-20 13:17:45.937929+00:00", "lang": "en", "topics": ["large-language-models", "generative-ai", "ai-ethics", "ai-policy"], "entities": ["Sam Altman", "OpenAI", "GPT-3", "Stability AI", "Musk v. Altman"], "alternates": {"html": "https://wpnews.pro/news/quoting-sam-altman", "markdown": "https://wpnews.pro/news/quoting-sam-altman.md", "text": "https://wpnews.pro/news/quoting-sam-altman.txt", "jsonld": "https://wpnews.pro/news/quoting-sam-altman.jsonld"}}