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Altman: Agentic AI Could Create Zero‑Person Startups

09 Oct 2025- Sam Altman at Dev Day 2025 predicts agentic AI enabling novel discovery, autonomous multi‑step agents that could run complex businesses—even “zero‑person” billion‑dollar startups—reshaping work and society.

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09 Oct 2025

OpenAI CEO Sam Altman sat down with The Rundown at Dev Day 2025 to map out a near-future shaped by increasingly agentic AI. In the exclusive interview he argued that AI is beginning to enable “novel discovery,” with scientists across fields already using models to accelerate breakthroughs.

Altman predicted the future of work could “look less like work,” suggesting a rapid transition that may reshape society’s social contract. He described progress on agentic, time‑based tasks as “disorienting” and said Codex is “not far away” from autonomously performing a week of work.

One striking forecast: with advanced agents, it may eventually be possible to spin up a billion‑dollar, zero‑person startup from a single prompt — systems that run for weeks and complete complex workflows with minimal human intervention. Dev Day’s product steps illustrate OpenAI’s push toward more autonomous tooling inside ChatGPT and related agent platforms.

Why it matters: these shifts signal a next phase where automation extends beyond single tasks to continuous, multi‑step operations. Altman’s tone was bullish on humanity’s capacity to adapt, even as the implications for jobs, governance, and business models grow more profound.

Catch the full interview and links to the episode on The Rundown’s Twitter/X, YouTube, and Spotify.

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