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Sam Altman

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Co-founder and CEO of OpenAI; previously president of Y Combinator.

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  1. Our readingDemand for cheap, high-quality intelligence is effectively uncapped, which makes it unlike every other commodity — including electricity.

    Their wordsI've never seen any commodity quite like this one but it seems to me like the demand for sufficiently high quality intelligence at a sufficiently low price is effectively uncapped.

    ↗Sam Altman: "Never a Better Time to Do a Startup"youtube.com 18th of 20 in this recording

    Interesting
  2. 2 years earlier

  3. Our readingCompute is not a market like phones, where demand is capped by how many buyers there are; intelligence is priced like energy, so the only real question is how much the world uses at a given price.

    Their wordsBut compute is different. Intelligence is going to be more like energy or something like that, where the only thing that I think makes sense to talk about is, at price X, the world will use this much compute, and at price Y, the world will use this much compute.

    ↗Sam Altman: OpenAI, GPT-5, Sora, Board Saga, Elon Musk, Ilya, Power & AGI | Lex Fridman Podcast #419youtube.com 10th of 20 in this recording

    Interesting