Masters of AI
Sam Altman, Dario Amodei, Demis Hassabis, and China's Challengers

This audiobook is narrated by an AI Voice. The battle for AI supremacy that began with ChatGPT is being fought by a surprisingly small cast of people. Sam Altman, the Stanford dropout who became Silicon Valley's kingmaker and survived a five-day boardroom coup. Dario Amodei, the leather craftsman's son and physicist who walked out of OpenAI over safety and founded Anthropic. Demis Hassabis, chess master at thirteen, game developer, neuroscientist - and Nobel laureate - who leads the development of Gemini. And Liang Wenfeng, born in a Guangdong farming village, who used a hedge fund fortune and ten thousand GPUs to deliver the 'DeepSeek shock.' Alongside them: Peter Steinberger, the lone developer whose OpenClaw became the fastest-growing open-source project in history before he joined OpenAI; Moonshot AI's Yang Zhilin; Baidu's Robin Li; and the tangled web of mentors, rivals, and defectors - from the OpenAI Mafia to the Nobel-winning teachers - that connects them all. Inside the five-day coup, the solving of a fifty-year scientific problem, and the day NVIDIA lost 590 billion dollars in market value: know the people behind the headlines, and the future of AI comes into three dimensions. Accessible to everyone from business readers to students. (Based on public information as of July 2026.) Also available: the companion volume 'OpenClaw & NemoClaw Explained.'