- The new blog post for Sam Altman describes the way ahead for AI
- Altman wants to create a factory that can produce a new infrastructure gigawatt
- Altman suggests that AI can become something that we consider a fundamental human right
In a new blog post called Abundance Intelligence, Sam Altman, CEO of OpenAi, presents the benefits of more computer power for AI and requires a greater investment in AI infrastructure. “If AI remains in the trajectory that we believe will do so, then they will be possible incredible things,” he writes.
While Altman does not make definitive predictions on what these amazing things will be, he is willing to reflect on the potential benefits of the increase in computational power could mean for the future. “Perhaps with 10 computing gigawatts, AI can discover how to cure cancer. Or with 10 computation gigawats, AI can discover how to provide personalized tutoring to each student on earth.”
It also emits a raw warning: “If we are limited by the calculation, we will have to choose which one to prioritize; nobody wants to make that decision, so we are going to build.”
Let’s build
Altman does not write blog posts just to pontify; He usually uses them to describe the direction for the next phase of the OpenAI expansion, and it is clear that it is now about increasing the “calculation”. The calculation is the word that Altman uses as a tachigraphy for raw force horses necessary to run and train LLM as Chatgpt.
In the real world, that power is equivalent to data centers: large facilities of the size of a warehouse full of servers, network of networks and cooling equipment, and as you can imagine, they need large amounts of electricity to function and function.
Just yesterday at X.com, Altman tweeted a video that showed progress in the last massive data centers in Operai and Oracle in Abilene, Texas. Part of the Stargate project of $ 500 billion, with five more open data centers in the United States soon. As you can see in the video, the large scale is impressive.
Progress in our Data Center in Abilene. Fun visit yesterday! pic.twitter.com/w22ssjwstwSeptember 24, 2025
As we reported on Tuesday, Nvidia is investing $ 100 billion in Openai, and will begin by displaying as much energy as 10 nuclear reactors.
In its blog post, Altman establishes exactly what Openai’s goal is when it comes to data centers: “Our vision is simple: we want to create a factory that can produce a gigavatio of a new infrastructure of AI every week.”
That is a surprising ambition, and realizes that it will be a challenge: “The execution of this will be extremely difficult; it will take us years to reach this milestone and require innovation at all levels of the pile, from the fries to power to power to construction and robotics. But we have been working hard on this and we believe it is possible.”
Reflecting the new political desire for its own harvest technology in the United States, Altman writes: “We are particularly excited to build a lot of this in the United States; at this time, other countries are building things such as manufacturing factories and the new energy production much faster than us, and we want to help change that course.”
As AI becomes smarter
Altman’s vision of the future will clearly require an incredible infrastructure construction to achieve, with even more data centers than we currently have in production. The massive consumption of required power has also attracted its fair part of criticism. In part, this is due to the great environmental impact of the construction of increasingly large data centers, but also because the AI scale calculates the power so far AGI could not be produced, and there is no indications that it will.
Although AGI is not mentioned in its most recent letter, it has been a popular theme of Altman previous blog posts. However, it talks about what will happen as AI becomes smarter: “Access to AI will be a fundamental promoter of the economy, and perhaps eventually something that we consider a fundamental human right. Almost everyone will want more working in their name.”
While it seems that achieving AGI is still as difficult as ever, there is no reason to think that Openai’s plans for the future will not be as innovative as we expect, and Altman is anxious to reveal them soon. “In the next two months, we will talk about some of our plans and the partners with whom we are working to make this reality,” he writes, before finishing the enigmatic: “We have some new interesting ideas,” and I can’t wait to see what they will be.
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