A film about the founding of OpenAI, titled "Artificial," was written, cast, and directed by Luca Guadagnino, test-screened to warm reviews, and then quietly shelved by the studio that financed it approximately four months after that studio invested $50 billion in OpenAI, the company the film depicted unfavorably. Luca Guadagnino directed the film, Simon Rich wrote the screenplay, and Andrew Garfield plays Sam Altman. The supporting cast includes Monica Barbaro as former OpenAI CTO Mira Murati, Yura Borisov as former chief scientist Ilya Sutskever, and Ike Barinholtz as Elon Musk. The production budget was between $40 million and $75 million. The film wrapped principal photography in October 2025 and moved through post-production before Amazon’s decision to drop it. Test screenings were conducted, and the reviews were reportedly warm. The decision not to release it was a distribution decision made after the creative work was complete, in the context of a changed business relationship between the studio and OpenAI.