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2026-04-07 · OpenAI · 21:54
“If we do our job, if we keep driving the cost of intelligence down and the capabilities of intelligence up, I think uh, you know, effectively if that happens, the demand is uncapped.”He believes demand for compute is effectively uncapped if OpenAI keeps driving costs down and capabilities up.
2026-04-07 · OpenAI · 22:08
“The worlds where we don't build enough infrastructure, I think you get a crazy concentration of power and concentration of compute because people will just bid the price up and up and up.”He thinks limited compute would lead to an extreme concentration of power and wealth.
2026-04-06 · ARC Prize · 22:35Changed view
“I want to shut down a bunch of other projects to concentrate our compute. And it feels like it's really time to concentrate our compute.”He believes OpenAI should concentrate its compute on the most promising direction rather than spread across many projects.
2026-03-11 · DRM News · 11:26
“the best thing to me throughout all the history of capitalism, innovation, whatever you want is to just flood the market.”He believes flooding the market with compute is the best approach.
2026-03-11 · DRM News · 14:21
“I have no doubt we will figure out how to build huge amounts of power generation. AI will help, of course.”He is confident the world will solve the power generation challenge for AI.
2026-02-24 · news.com.au · 00:41
“And probably AI has already caught up on an energy efficiency basis measured that way.”He believes AI is already competitive with humans on energy efficiency per query once trained.
2026-02-24 · news.com.au · 01:18
“This is completely untrue, totally insane, no no connection to reality.”He rejects online claims about ChatGPT's water use per query as false.
2026-02-24 · news.com.au · 01:29
“we need to move towards nuclear or wind and solar very quickly”He says total AI energy consumption is a real issue that requires moving quickly to nuclear, wind and solar power.
2026-02-23 · Diya TV · 42:38
“I think the world is only a few years away from fusion and really reliable solar wind plus storage.”He expects fusion and reliable solar, wind, and storage to become the world's cheapest energy sources within a few years.
2026-02-22 · APT · 00:39
“And probably AI has already caught up on an energy efficiency basis measured that way.”He believes AI has probably already caught up with humans on energy efficiency per query once training costs are counted fairly.
2026-02-20 · VERTEX · 13:41
“This will be the most expensive, complex infrastructure project the world has ever collectively taken on for all of our welfare.”He believes the world must massively expand compute capacity and will need AI and robots to help build it.
2026-02-19 · CNBC International Live · 04:06
“We will partner with uh you know, the sort of giants of the field like Nvidia. We'll partner with newer startups in areas like fast inference like Cerebras. We'll do our own inference chip as well.”He expects OpenAI to use a diverse portfolio of semiconductor approaches, including its own inference chip.
2026-02-19 · CNBC International Live · 05:39
“in terms of any one layer of the stack failing would cause some real knock-on effects and it's sort of like a very tight supply chain right now. I do worry about that.”He worries that a failure in any one layer of the tight AI supply chain could cause knock-on effects.
2026-02-05 · TBPN · 30:09
“I think somehow deciding as a society that we are going to increase the wafer capacity of the world and we're going to fund that uh and we're going to get you know the whole supply chain and the talented people we need to make that happen would be a very good thing to do.”He thinks society should deliberately fund increased global wafer capacity and the chip supply chain.
2026-02-05 · TBPN · 31:31
“Do you think space data centers will provide a meaningful amount of compute for open AAI in the next two to three years, five years? >> No.”He does not expect space data centers to provide meaningful compute for OpenAI in the coming years.
2026-02-04 · ExpovistaTV · 10:42
“over a period of decades it seems certain to me that the world is going to need a lot more tokens”He expects the world will need vastly more compute over decades despite temporary supply gluts.
2025-11-19 · Databricks · 18:48
“this is an area that I think we as an industry are underinvested in is how how we make this stuff dramatically faster.”He thinks the industry is underinvested in making AI dramatically faster, and sees demand for higher cost per token at much lower latency.
2025-10-31 · Bg2 Pod · 19:27
“there will come a glut for sure and whether that's like in two to three years or five to six I can't tell you but uh like it's going to happen at some point”He believes a compute glut will happen at some point and some people will get burned on infrastructure contracts.
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