Altman's Goal: 500K A100 GPUs for an 'AI Research Intern' by September
i_dg23 · x · 2026-08-11
Speaking at Stanford in May, Sam Altman revealed OpenAI's goal to allocate 500,000 A100-equivalent GPUs to power an "AI research intern" by September of this year.
He projected that by March 2028, there will be an end-to-end AI researcher capable of discovering entirely new architectures. With the September deadline just three weeks away, OpenAI has not yet announced whether this specific compute milestone has been met.
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