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.
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