Sam Altman says that Openai outings make him feel again as a founder of YC

OPENAI CEO Sam Altman said on Tuesday that the management of the versions of new products from the Chatgpt manufacturer reminded him of his debut as a founder supported by a combiner Y.

“LOL I feel like a YC founder in” Build in Public “mode, Altman wrote in an article on X.

Altman’s remark comes after a week busy for Openai. The company has published a new image generation functionality for Chatgpt on March 25.

The new feature was a success with users, which flooded social media with images generated by AI in the style of Ghibli films from the Japanese animation company Studio Ghibli. Altman said in a post on Monday that Optai had seen a record peak in users after moving the functionality.

But the sudden increase in users has caused Openai problems.

On Thursday, only two days after the release of the new feature, Altman said that the “GPUs of Openai melt” all the requests for the generation of images they received from users.

“It’s super fun to see that people like images in Chatgpt. But our GPUs melt. We will temporarily introduce certain rate limits while we work to make it more effective,” wrote Altman on X.

Then, in a post X following Tuesday, Altman said that the company “took things under control”. He added that users “should expect the new versions of Openai to be delayed, that things break and that the service is sometimes slow because we are facing the challenges of capacity”.

Altman is perhaps best known for his work in Openai now, but the entrepreneur has cut his teeth in the world of technology at Y Combinator. Startup’s accelerator has organizations like Airbnb, Dropbox, Stripe and Twitch as former students’ companies.

The first startup of Altman, a social networking application named Loopt, was one of the first companies to be supported by Y combinator in 2005. Loopt was then acquired by Green Dot, a banking company, in 2012 for more than $ 43 million.

In 2014, the founder of Y combinator, Paul Graham, appointed Altman as his successor. Altman replaced Graham as president of Y combinator and held the role of five years. Altman resigned as president in March 2019 to focus on Openai.

Openai announced on Monday that she had raised $ 40 billion to an assessment of $ 300 billion. Openai’s new assessment is almost double what it was worth in October when it raised $ 6.6 billion to an evaluation of $ 157 billion.

Altman representatives in Openai did not respond to a request for comments from Business Insider.