OpenAI plans to spend "trillions of dollars" in the future to build the infrastructure required for AI development.

On Friday, August 15th, OpenAI CEO Sam Altman stated that the company will invest trillions of dollars in AI infrastructure "in the not-too-distant future," including chips, data centers, power systems, and other foundational resources that support AI operations. Altman believes that in the long term, AI will be the most important development, and society as a whole cannot possibly regret making substantial investments in AI.

**Altman's Massive Plan: Heavy Spending Isn't Madness, It's Vision**

According to Altman, this investment is aimed at seizing AI as "the most important technological revolution in decades." While he acknowledges that investors are currently overly excited about AI, and the current AI investment frenzy resembles the internet bubble of the late 1990s, he firmly believes that AI's long-term value is real and profound.

"I know economists will think this is crazy and risky, but I believe we should let OpenAI pursue this path."

Altman expects OpenAI to spend significant amounts of money but anticipates generating enormous profits in the future. He considers continued heavy investment to be highly reasonable at this time.

However, Altman also cautioned the market to remain clear-headed, noting that some AI startups have crazy and irrational valuations, and someone will eventually get burned badly.

**How to Fund It? Altman Envisions Creating Entirely New Financing Tools**

Facing this astronomical investment plan, Altman proposed an extremely ambitious approach: designing a completely new financial instrument for financing and purchasing computing resources, a method that has never been used globally before. While Altman didn't reveal specific details, he hinted at an innovative financing model.

In January this year, Altman joined SoftBank's Masayoshi Son and Oracle's Larry Ellison at the White House to announce a $500 billion, four-year infrastructure project called "Stargate." However, Altman's current envisioned spending scale far exceeds the "Stargate" project.

To raise the substantial funds needed for AI development, OpenAI will likely go public in the future, though there's no clear timeline yet. The company is currently completing a complex corporate restructuring that has been ongoing for several months. Altman noted that they may eventually need to go public but admitted he's not particularly suited to be the CEO of a public company.

**GPT-5 Launch Problems: Altman Admits "We Messed Up"**

Despite having grand visions, Altman frankly acknowledged significant issues with the launch of the next-generation AI model GPT-5:

"We definitely messed up some things in this release."

GPT-5, the new model Altman had been promoting for several months, was officially launched last week. The market reaction was mixed, with some users disliking GPT-5's writing style and personality, while others complained that their preferred older models were canceled or replaced when the new version went live. OpenAI has already rolled out a series of corrections within a week of the launch and issued public apologies.

Altman explained that the team underestimated users' "emotional attachment" to AI products, which is much stronger than with previous tech products, so changes trigger bigger reactions. Additionally, upgrading products for hundreds of millions of users within a single day presents enormous challenges.

Furthermore, Altman mentioned that if courts force Alphabet to divest its Chrome browser, OpenAI would be interested in acquiring Chrome.