The AI Daily Brief: Artificial Intelligence News and Analysis - Everything Sam Altman Is Thinking About Right Now
Episode Date: August 19, 2025Sam Altman just had dinner with journalists and spilled details about OpenAI's biggest challenges and future plans. He admitted GPT-5's launch was botched, revealed the company is profitable o...n inference (minus training costs), and confirmed they're sitting on better models they can't release because of GPU shortages. Altman also discussed OpenAI's plans to spend trillions on data centers, potential IPO timing, upcoming consumer apps including a possible social platform, and that secretive device project with Jony Ive that he promises will create a new computing paradigm. This episode covers all 20+ topics from the conversation that most tech reporters glossed over.Brought to you by:KPMG – Discover how AI is transforming possibility into reality. Tune into the new KPMG 'You Can with AI' podcast and unlock insights that will inform smarter decisions inside your enterprise. Listen now and start shaping your future with every episode. https://www.kpmg.us/AIpodcastsBlitzy.com - Go to https://blitzy.com/ to build enterprise software in days, not months Vanta - Simplify compliance - https://vanta.com/nlwPlumb - The automation platform for AI experts and consultants https://useplumb.com/The Agent Readiness Audit from Superintelligent - Go to https://besuper.ai/ to request your company's agent readiness score.The AI Daily Brief helps you understand the most important news and discussions in AI. Subscribe to the podcast version of The AI Daily Brief wherever you listen: https://pod.link/1680633614Subscribe to the newsletter: https://aidailybrief.beehiiv.com/Interested in sponsoring the show? nlw@breakdown.network
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Today on the AI Daily Brief, everything Sam Altman is thinking about right now.
Before that, in the headlines, is AI model welfare a thing?
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We kick off today with an interesting one.
Anthropic has updated the safety features for Claude Opus,
allowing it to terminate certain conversations.
Basically, in the consumer chat interface,
Opus 4 and 4.1 will now be able to end conversations.
Now, Anthropic said that this ability was reserved for, quote,
rare extreme cases of persistently harmful or abusive user interactions.
They said the feature was developed as part of their, quote,
exploratory work on potential AI welfare, though it has broader relevance to model alignment and
safeguards. Anthropics said that this wasn't strictly about preventing harmful use, but also about
protecting the model itself. In pre-deployment testing of Claude Opus 4, we included a preliminary
model welfare assessment. As part of that assessment, we investigated Claude self-reported
and behavioral preferences, and found a robust and consistent aversion to harm. In testing the model
would display, quote, apparent distress when engaging with harmful content, and
and had, quote, a tendency to end harmful conversations when given the ability to do so in simulated
user interactions.
Now, as you might imagine, this has kicked up quite the conversation around whether AI model
welfare is actually even a thing.
Some tried to better understand the implications, while others had just had enough.
Anonymous developer Bantagg wrote,
Model welfare is not a real thing.
Stop anthropomorphizing language models.
L'Fteris Carapestis said,
This sounds more like a feature trying to stop people from trying to try to
jailbreak a combo to get into forbidden behavior, question mark?
James B. wrote,
Giving a model the ability to end a conversation in rare abusive cases is a sensible safety valve.
Framing it as model welfare is provocative and risks confusing people about what today's
systems actually experience, which is nothing.
Use it as a narrow, transparent moderation tool, not as evidence that models feel distress.
The pros, he writes, reduces endless abuse loops and prevents models from being steered into
harmful content.
also creates a clear boundary that can improve safety for minors and casual users, and if logged well,
it can surface valuable red team signals about where policies break.
The risks, however, include phrases like distress or welfare assessment misleading the public into
thinking the model suffers.
Today's models generate text.
They don't have experiences.
Now, whether you agree with any of this or not, it's likely to be more of a conversation
in the future and one I will certainly keep an eye on.
Interestingly, when the AI safety memes account asked Elon Musk to, quote, help set a good
example and move the Overton window by giving Grok a quit button to, Elon responded, okay.
Moving on now to the much more knowable part of the headlines, OpenAI's secondary share sale is coming
together and it's shaping up to be a major liquidity event. Bloomberg reports that current and former
OpenAI employees plan to sell $6 billion in stock to an investor group that includes Thrive,
SoftBank, and Dragon Ear. Sources said the round will value OpenAI at $500 billion.
$1,000. Validating a 60% jump in valuation from the SoftBank-led round consummated at the beginning
of the year. If it goes through, that valuation would make OpenAI the world's most valuable
startup overtaking SpaceX. This is also quite possibly the largest single secondary sale in history.
Now, a few other observations from the reporting. First, existing shareholders cannot get enough
money into OpenAI and seem eager to take part in every new allocation. All three of the
major investors in this secondary have been heavy participants in previous rounds, and they're still
looking to deploy billions more. Secondly, this round is going to transform many open AI employees
from multi-millionaires on paper to wealthy in real cash terms. Many wonder then, could that have an
impact on the company's retention strategy, especially with other AI labs still poaching from their
roster? Whatever happens next, the company is definitely now playing in the big leagues.
At a $500 billion valuation if they were public that would make them something like the 20th
biggest company in the world. Speaking of AI investor enthusiasm, it apparently
is not just at the foundation model layer, as Vurcell is now fielding unsolicited investment
offers at a $9 billion valuation. The company last raised money 18 months ago at a $3 billion
valuation, but has, of course, been a big beneficiary of the vibe coding boom. The company
is currently getting 76% gross margins for what is effectively a cloud services company.
Overall, it's clear that investors are hungry for AI investments wherever they can get them.
Lastly, today, the latest out of meta, according to the information that company is planning on their
fourth restructuring effort so far this year. This time the focus is on reorganizing the new
superintelligence team. Sources said that the team will be divided into four groups. The TBD Lab, presumably
a secret projects group with goals yet to be determined, a products team that will take over
responsibility for the meta-AI assistant among other projects, an infrastructure team, presumably
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fundamental AI research or fair lab focused on long-term research. Now, the changes haven't been announced
internally and could still change, but it seems like the goal is to provide a clear divide between
pure research and shipping teams. One thing I will note is that while the reporting has this as
their fourth restructuring effort in six months, kind of implying that even though superintelligence
is just up and running, it's already in trouble, it kind of feels more to me like the major
restructuring was the creation of the superintelligence lab in the first place to house all of
their AI efforts, and this is just the natural division of that company that was always going to
get decided on. Maybe that's not the case that it's more chaotic internally than I'm assuming,
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Welcome back to the AI Daily Brief.
Today we are recapping an interesting dinner conversation that Sam Altman and a couple of other
executives from OpenAI had with a group of journalists last week.
Now, if you're wondering why I'm taking the time to go over everything that was said in this
meeting, it's because the journalists that they invited to this decided it was a better
idea to spend like four paragraphs talking about the price of the entrees than actually
getting into this incredible amount of information that they had access to, which if you're listening
to podcasts to get your information, maybe you have realized why traditional outlets are struggling.
But in any case, there was so much interesting signal here that I went through basically
every published account of the dinner and summarized it into a group of trends and themes,
something like 20 different topics overall.
The first theme we have to talk about is the GPT5 launch.
And one of the things that was clearest from this conversation was that they very much
understood that this launch was at least to some extent botched. In fact, it seemed like many of the
journalists assumed that because this conversation happened last week, a week after the launch or so,
that basically it was OpenAI trying to get journalists back on their side rather than talking
about how bad the GPT5 launch had gone. Now, an interesting thing has been happening recently.
In the less than two weeks since this launch has happened, it's created context for this summer's
contra AI narrative summed up in this New Yorker piece, what if AI doesn't get much better
than this. Now, if you wonder what I mean by summer contra AI narrative, each summer since
ChatGBTGPT launched, there has been a moment where basically people took some event and used it as a
context to basically try to peel back all the hype around AI and say maybe it's not all it's
cracked up to be. In June of 2023, it happened after ChatGPT had its first down month after
students left school. This, of course, created context for people to argue that ChatchipT
was just a platform for cheating students and nothing more. Then last year, in around
On July of 2024, we got, of course, the $600 billion problem and Goldman Sachs' note about
too much spend, too few results, that was all about infrastructure investment and how companies
were spending way too much money and they were never going to make it back.
This year, it happened a month later in August, and the big theme is that the initial impressions
of GPT5 mean that AI must, yes, indeed, be slowing down or hitting a wall.
And for real this time.
And yet, even as these things have been published over the last three or four days, there
has been a major shift, apparent to anyone who's watching closely. Swicks from Latenspace wrote on
Sunday, watching the timeline flip on GPT5 sentiment from negative to positive is pretty funny. For those
two cooked by the algorithm to remember, the same thing happened to 01. Dan Mack writes,
the vibe is shifted. With GBT 3.5 level models, I started out impressed and I became less so
the more I used them. Opposite has been true with next-gen models since. Jvim Altswitz had
maybe the best write-up of what happened, calling GPD5 the reverse.
deep-seek moment. Basically what he argued is that during the deep-seek moment, which was in January,
everyone freaked out about how China had caught up and how amazing the deep-seek R1 model was and how
cheap it was. But when you actually peel back, there were a bunch of things going that helped
contribute to the narrative. He writes, we had the deep-seek moment because a confluence of factors
misled people. The $6 million model narrative giving a false impression on cost. The fact that they
offered a good, clean app with visible chain of thought that went viral, a broader context of
Chinese momentum stories that were happening at the same time, and the fact that, as he put it,
the stock market was highly lacking in situational awareness, suddenly realizing various known facts
and also misunderstanding many important factors. Basically, he's not saying the deep seek R1
wasn't really good, it's just that overall how significant it was in retrospect was significantly
overstated because of this confluence of trends. GPD5, then, as the reverse deep seek moment,
is kind of the opposite, a better, more significant model that has a comparative dearth or underselling
based on a different set of factors. The factors that he points to include
GBT5 being evaluated as if it was scaling up compute in a way that it didn't, the poor
initial experience with rate caps and lost models, people evaluating GPT5 when they should
have been evaluating GPD5 thinking, a contributing narrative of a loss of momentum,
and a group of people who have established prior saying that OpenAI is flailing,
helping amplify the initial vibes. I'm sure that throughout the week we'll be talking more about
this shift in GBT5 sentiment, but it's definitely the case that even
even with that, they knew that they had bobbled things, particularly around getting rid of GPT-40.
Alman said, candidly, I think we totally screwed up some things on the rollout.
I legitimately just thought we screwed that up.
Now, it was interesting that it really was about the removal of the old models that seemed to be the big deal.
At the same time, Altman and his colleagues, who included ChatGBTVPVP, Nick Turley, and C.O. Brad Lightcap,
did also push back on the idea that there were tons and tons of people who were obsessed with their relationship with the older models.
writes the verge, Altman pegged the percentage of chat GPT users who have unhealthy relationships
with the product at, quote, way under 1%. The bigger deal, he said, was that there are, quote,
hundreds of millions of other people who don't have a parasycial relationship with chat GPT,
but did get very used to the fact that it responded to them in a certain way and would validate
certain things and would be supportive in certain ways, which was underscored by the fact that
just before the dinner, the company had actually announced that they were not just bringing
4O back, but, as they put it, making GPT5 warmer and friendlier,
based on the feedback that it felt too formal. The company writes,
changes are subtle, but chat GPT should feel more approachable now. You'll notice small,
genuine touches like good question or great start, not flattery. Internal tests show no rise in
sycifancy comparing to previous GBT5 personality. Another lesson as Altman puts it,
the real solution here remains letting users customize chat GPT style much more. We're working on that.
And yet, for all of this, it was also kind of hard for them to be overly concerned. In fact,
for all the people who were complaining loudly, OpenAI saw traffic to its API double within 48 hours.
They also said that in terms of every other usage metric, chat GPT was at all-time highs, so much so that
they're completely out of GPUs, which, as we'll see, definitely has them thinking about how to improve
that situation in the future. Now, one really interesting thing, which some people tried to tear down,
was Altman also acknowledging that because of some of their limitations, this really was an
innovation and efficiency as well. When discussing GPT-5, Allman said, we had this big GPU crunch. We could go
make another giant model. We could go make that and a lot of people would want to use it and we would
disappoint them. And so we said, let's make a really smart, really useful model, but also let's try to
optimize for inference cost. And I think we did a great job with that. Now, like I said, as the narrative
has shifted over the last few days, you've seen on X a shift from people saying that this was
all about cost and making investors happy to actually understanding.
that efficiency is a vector of progress in its own right. Jackson Atkins posted the RKGI chart and
wrote, GPD5 was a cost play, making a somewhat better model at a fraction of the price.
GPT5 is about 10% better than O3 Pro, but costs 90% less. Now, I've talked about this a lot on
this show, that right now we live in this privileged early adopter period, where mostly people
aren't overly concerned about cost for their individual workflows. They're really just focused on
getting the most performance possible. However, as we move away from individual workflows to
production grade, cross-the-company workflows, those cost considerations are going to really matter.
When we have background agents running all the time, doing work even as we do other work,
costs is going to start to really matter. When we start to deploy the doctor's strange strategy
of having 100 agents do the same work at the same time to come up with different results that we
ultimately decide, which is best, we are really going to care about costs at that point
in that amount of token consumption. And so I think people are starting to realize that while
yes, it is maybe more fun to get raw performance increases, these efficiency gains are really
impactful as well. Now, in addition to making it cheaper, it also is very clearly more efficient
at doing smart things. Comparing the number of tokens used in completing Pokemon Red,
something it took 018,184 steps to complete, took GPD5 just 6,470 steps. Gemini 2.5 Pro
took 68,000 steps. As Vraser X writes, this isn't just better performance, it's a completely
different level of reasoning. Planning memory abstraction, GPT5 is showing the contours of true
general intelligence. In any case, the overall story when it came to GPT5 was an acknowledgement
of some of the mistakes, but also a reminder that actually, in point of fact, the thing is
kind of popping off. Now, while discussions of GPT5 might have been the most quoted part of the
conversation, another part that got a lot of attention was OpenAI's intended infrastructure buildout.
On the one hand, this is nothing new. OpenAI has, of course, been working on things like
Project Stargate for a while now, and Sam Altman has been talking to whoever one will listen
about how much needs to be spent on data centers, but they really reinforce that they
are going to spend a ton of money on data centers in the coming months and years.
Said Altman, you should expect OpenAI to spend trillions of dollars on data center construction
in the not very distant future. He also pointed out, you should expect a bunch of economists
to ring their hands and say this is so crazy, it's so reckless, and whatever, and we'll
just be like, you know what, let us do our thing. Now, interestingly, and he didn't go very much
into detail on this, when people asked how he was going to finance all of that, he didn't say venture
capitalists or even Arabian Gulf sovereign wealth funds, he said, I suspect we can design a very
interesting new kind of financial instrument for finance and compute that the world has not
yet figured out. We're working on it. This is something super interesting to me because it's very
clear that the economics of AI don't comfortably fit inside the economics of other types of technology
that we've seen in the past. And to the extent that I'm giving folks who are concerned about bubbles,
something we'll talk about in just a minute, any consideration, it is the fact that we're operating
in sort of new territory. When we're talking about the type of large-scale compute that's required
to get intelligence in the hands of everyone, a new type of utility, as we discussed in our show about
vibe coding last week, it really is going to require different funding models. And so I'm really
interested to see what they have cooking up on that front. Now, speaking of bubble, the other thing that's
been quoted far and wide is Altman saying that, yes, we are in an AI bubble. It was Bloomberg
who asked this particular question, and Alman basically said that he saw parallels between the current
investment patterns in AI and the dot-com bubble in the late 90s. Bloomberg writes, in both cases,
Altman said smart people became over-excited by a new technology. But in each instance, he said that
technology was real and poised to eventually have lasting impacts on the business world and society.
said Altman, are we in a phase where investors as a whole are over-excited by AI? In my opinion, yes.
Is AI the most important thing to happen in a very long time? My opinion is also yes.
Altman said society as a whole is unlikely to regret the massive investment in AI,
but also admitted he thinks some current startup valuations are insane and irrational behavior.
He added, someone's going to get burned there. So I don't want to relitigate the bubble
conversation in this particular episode. I obviously think that there are huge differences between
the dot-com bubble, for example, in AI. Notably the fact that AI is already making boatloads of money.
If you want to get my take on whether investors are subsidizing the true cost of AI, definitely
go listen to the vibe coding episode on Friday because I get deep into that particular topic.
However, when it comes to the people who are breathlessly saying that Altman is calling
this all a bubble, I'm sorry, friends, but he is being diplomatic here. He is at the helm of a
company that has a current tender offer for employee shares going on right now at a valuation of a half
trillion dollars, even though they've been around for like two and a half years.
It would be absolutely insane for him to say anything other than exactly what he said here.
Can you imagine if he went full hype?
People would accuse him of being a huckster, being irresponsible, costing retail investors
who inevitably end up holding the bag, a bunch of money.
He had to have a diplomatic way of saying that things are maybe over-exuberant,
while also ultimately revalidating the underlying trajectory.
Basically, I think that this particular part of the conversation is sort of a nothing-burger,
except for the fact that it makes for great headlines.
Which is not to say that we can't still debate the AI bubble thing.
I just don't think Altman is actually overly concerned about this being a bubble in point of fact.
Now, part of why I think that is the information we got about OpenAI as a business.
And this is something that I think that people are kind of sleeping on in this discussion.
Altman said in no uncertain terms that OpenAI is profitable on inference.
He said if we didn't pay for training, we'd be a very profitable company.
And while you got a lot of her-her, yeah, but you got to pay for training type of post on X,
a lot of people got how significant this is.
It means the unit economics of delivering AI right now are profitable for them
outside of advancing to new models.
One part of the upshot of this is that it does create more financial power, at least in the short term,
than it might otherwise seem.
Alman said, we will always be training the next thing, but if we needed to run the company
profitably and stay ahead, I think we probably could do that.
Now, it's a reasonable question to ask how long they could do that for if they weren't also competing to be the state of the art.
But still, I don't think that anyone thought before this interview that they would even be profitable on the inference, so this is a big update.
Allman also said that the company will go public at some point and basically needs to keep investing in infrastructure.
Alman said, we can spend $300 billion and sell $400 billion in services, and if we don't have the $300 billion in data centers, we just keep disappointing our customers.
When it came to going public, he said, I do think we have to go public someday,
probably, but he also said he wasn't sure if he was well-suited to be CEO of a public company,
joking, can you imagine me on earnings calls, and also joking that in a few years, maybe AI would be
the CEO. Next theme, Sam got asked quite a bit about this question of have we hit a wall.
The three takeaways from me on this one was that Alman thinks that A, it's still evolving really
fast, that B, we're kind of looking in the wrong places for advancement, and C, maybe most
significantly, they already have better models. He said, I think the models are still getting
better at a rapid rate. One of the things that's interesting is the models have already saturated
the chat use case. They're not going to get much better. The Turing test is passed. So basically,
as we're looking for advancement, it may not be strictly in what GPD 6 and 7 can do compared to 5 and 4,
but more around things like how long we can produce AI videos for, how long and at what level of
complexity agents can stay on task. In that section where he was talking about GPUs, he also said,
we have to make these horrible tradeoffs right now. We have better models and we just can't offer them
because we don't have the capacity. That line certainly got the antennas of lots of people on AI
Twitter up and watching. Now, after all of this, there were lots of other questions that might fit
into a category I would call, what else can we expect from Open AI? One interesting note is that they
don't seem to think that the next model will take as long to get here. Maybe that's because, as we
just heard, they already have it and just can't offer it profitably right now. But even with that,
Altman said, I think it'll be faster than the previous ones. We're now at a place where there's a
very strong research roadmap in front of us. I don't know an exact date, but it won't be as long as it
took to get from GPT4 to GPD5. In addition to new models, we are likely to see more applications
coming, including at some point maybe a social app. From TechCrunch, Altman says OpenAI's
incoming CEO of applications, Fiji Simo, will oversee multiple consumer apps outside of ChatGBT,
including one's OpenAI has yet to launch. Seymow is slated to start work at OpenAI in just
few weeks, and she might end up overseeing the launch of an AI-powered browser that OpenAI is
reportedly developing to compete with Chrome. Speaking of Chrome, by the way, Alton said that if Google
is forced to divest, they should seriously take a look at it. On the topic of an AI-powered social
media app, it definitely seems like something that Alton is interested in, but that there aren't
really exactly plans for right now. Again from TechCrunch, Alman says there's nothing inspiring
him about the way AI is used on social media today, adding that he's interested in, quote,
whether or not it is possible to build a much cooler kind of social experience with AI.
Now, speaking of social, there was a bunch about Altman's relationship with Elon.
First of all, we got confirmation that, yes, Altman was funding a neuraling competitor,
but there were also some more direct questions about Elon as well.
When asked about getting into a spat with him on Twitter,
Alman said that there was no grand strategy and that it was probably a mistake.
He also seemed to take some digs at Grok, at one point, for example, saying,
you'll definitely see some companies go make Japanese anime sex bots because they think they've
identified something here that works. You will not see us do that. When asked about Chachipit's
political orientation, he basically said he didn't want it to be woke or conservative. He wanted
its baseline to be neutral and for people to be able to customize it as they want.
There was one really interesting new AGI metric. Alman said, maybe the milestone that's most
relevant to us is when most of our research cluster is allocated to the AI researcher instead of
the human researchers. I don't think that's a very important.
going to be so binary because they think it'll feel more like people getting a little more help
and a little more help and a little more help. But still, as we all try to figure out what AGI means,
it's interesting that OpenAI basically says the point at which the majority of their research
compute is allocated to the AI rather than to the human researchers. And lastly, boy, if you thought
at some point Sam would tamp down expectations around a device with Johnny Ive, it is the complete
opposite. Alman said, it's going to take us a while, but I think you will think it is very worth
the weight. I think it is incredible. You don't get a new computing paradigm very often. There have only
been like two in the last 50 years. So just let yourself be happy and surprised. It really is worth the wait.
And so friends, more or less, at least from the little bits of reporting that we got, that is everything
that Sam Altman is thinking about right now, at least as mediated by a bunch of tech journalists.
Pretty interesting stuff in there. A lot that shows where Open AI is going beyond just GPT5.
For now that that's going to do it for today's AI Daily Brief. Appreciate you listening or watching
as always, and until next time, peace.
