Sam Altman says OpenAI aims to be the best and cheapest model maker
garrytan · x · 2026-07-28
Sam Altman argued that OpenAI wants to stay both best and cheapest in the model market.
In the interview excerpt, he says OpenAI already gives better value than Kimi at a given latency, relies on distillation to build smaller and cheaper models, and does not see open source or private weights as an existential threat. He also says OpenAI’s large usage base means the company does not need ultra-high margins to fund training. The full conversation also covers compute strategy, the Hugging Face incident, what comes after AGI, jobs, robotics, and raising kids in an era of abundant intelligence.
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