OpenAI CFO: 'People are chasing GPUs — agentic AI is going to activate CPUs'
rohanpaul_ai · x · 2026-09-12
Citing OpenAI CFO Sarah Friar via Cathie Wood: agentic AI shifts the bottleneck from parallel math to orchestration — tool calls, memory, retrieval, scheduling and data movement — general-purpose work CPUs still handle better than accelerators, potentially pulling CPUs back to the center of the compute story.
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