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Altman: AI and society must co-evolve through iterative model releases
“And I think that, so research benefits aside, I'm a big believer that society and technology have to co-evolve. It's, you can't just drop the thing at the end. It doesn't work that way. It is a sort of ongoing back and forth.”
Sam Altman Oct 8, 2025 ▶ 5:47 Sam Altman on Sora, Energy, and Building an AI Empire
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Altman: Managing research requires a seed investor mindset, not product management
“A really good research culture looks much more like running a really good seed stage investing firm and betting on founders and sort of that kind of, than it does like running a product company.”
Sam Altman Oct 8, 2025 ▶ 21:03 Sam Altman on Sora, Energy, and Building an AI Empire
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Altman: OpenAI's infrastructure, research, and products form a single vertical stack
“I mean, the research enables us to make the great products and the infrastructure enables us to do the research. So it is kind of like a vertical stack of things.”
Sam Altman Oct 8, 2025 ▶ 3:27 Sam Altman on Sora, Energy, and Building an AI Empire
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Altman: Text AI interfaces are nowhere near saturated
“What a chat interface can do for you, it's like nowhere near saturated, because you could ask a chat interface, like, please cure cancer. A model certainly can't do that yet. So I think the text interface style can go very far, even if for the chit chat use ca…”
Sam Altman Oct 8, 2025 ▶ 8:23 Sam Altman on Sora, Energy, and Building an AI Empire
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