Sam Altman says the singularity has already arrived and compute still wasn’t enough
VraserX · x · 2026-07-26
Sam Altman says we are already in the singularity, says he still text messages 300–400 people a day, and argues OpenAI should have been even more ambitious on compute.
The post turns that into a broader question about whether Altman is the most explicitly accelerationist major AI CEO, but the core news is his unusually strong public framing of AI progress and compute ambition.
Related event: Altman Declares Humanity is in the Singularity(22 posts)→
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