Sam Altman: OpenAI bets on robots building robots and data centers building data centers
rohanpaul_ai · x · 2026-10-24
Asked what infrastructure OpenAI is betting on, Sam Altman described a self-reinforcing loop: robots that build more robots, and data centers that help build more data centers, chip fabs and power plants, so compute can scale far faster.
He said this loop is 'almost as big a deal as RSI' — AI improving its own research. Full talk on the Stanford GSB YouTube channel.
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