EPISODE · May 22, 2026 · 22 MIN

The Big Eleven

from AI On Trial: Sam Vs. Elon & The Future of Silicon Valley · host Frontier Media

Count the founders. Of the eleven names on the December 11, 2015 OpenAI founding announcement, two remain at the company — Altman as CEO, Zaremba in research. The other nine left. Where they went. Why they left. The Anthropic counter-roster — "all seven of our founders are still here" — that's been quietly haunting OpenAI ever since. And one careful note about Suchir Balaji.

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Of the eleven names on OpenAI's founding announcement, two remain. Where the other nine went — and what their departures became evidence of.

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