Sam Altman says OpenAI under-bet on compute in a wide-ranging interview
firstadopter · x · 2026-07-28
A podcast interview with Sam Altman touches on OpenAI’s compute bets, the so-called “race for compute,” Kimi and open source, the Hugging Face incident, what comes after AGI, jobs, personal AI, robotics, and the weight of leading OpenAI.
The post highlights the discussion as a broad, substantive conversation rather than a product announcement, with timestamps pointing to the main topics covered throughout the episode.
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