Quote 232 · Altman

Said in a video · quote 23224 Oct 2026

There is another loop, which is if you have robots that can build more robots and then data centers that can effectively build more data centers, including operating chip fab facilities and such, you can make a lot more compute all the way down to building more power plants.

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Sam Altman, Co-Founder and CEO of OpenAI: Staying Human While Scaling Superintelligence
Stanford Graduate School of Business (YouTube) · 21 Oct 2026 · at 33:25

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The fact it supports: Altman said 'if you have robots that can build more robots and then data centers that can effectively build more data centers' (33:25), and that you can make more compute 'all the way down to building more power plants' (33:38).

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Altman tells Stanford OpenAI is betting on robots that build data centres 24 Oct 2026

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“There is another loop, which is if you have robots that can build more robots and then data centers that can effectively build more data centers, including operating chip fab facilities and such, you can make a lot more compute all the way down to building more power plants.” Altman. From Sam Altman, Co-Founder and CEO of OpenAI: Staying Human While Scaling Superintelligence (Stanford Graduate School of Business (YouTube)) at 33:25. Quoted by ai notis. https://ainotis.com/q/232

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Altman. (2026, October 21). “There is another loop, which is if you have robots that can build more robots and then data centers that can effectively build more data centers, including operating chip fab facilities and such, you can make a lot more compute all the way down to building more power plants.” [Video at 33:25]. https://ainotis.com/q/232

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