Sam Altman dispels expectations that OpenAI would seek government bailouts

Sam Altman, the CEO of OpenAI, believes governments should not guarantee and bail out AI ￰0￱ added that some governments may consider building AI infrastructure capacity as a precaution and a head start in controlling enough computational ￰1￱ CEO of OpenAI, Sam Altman, said he did not seek government guarantees for the company’s data centers. ‘ We believe that governments should not pick winners or losers, and that taxpayers should not bail out companies that make bad business decisions or otherwise lose in the ￰2￱ one company fails, other companies will do good work, ’ said Altman in a response to recent worries about the viability of AI ￰3￱ Cryptopolitan reported earlier, the market fears some of the AI-related firms are fueling their own demand, not reflecting organic user adoption or real ￰4￱ should not bail out AI companies Altman pointed out it may make sense for governments to build and own their own strategic AI infrastructure, and even retain earnings from ￰5￱ believes governments can achieve the task more cheaply, and form a strategic national reserve of computing ￰6￱ government data centers should not boost private companies, added Altman in a longer post on ￰7￱ comments were a response to the company’s CFO Sarah Friar talking about the case of potential government guarantees or tools for cheaper financing for the AI ￰8￱ dismissed the call for government involvement and denied any potential for ￰9￱ talk of a bailout has sparked fears that AI may be forming a bubble and may end up causing an even bigger crisis if the companies fail to fulfill their ￰10￱ Altman calls for more AI capacity, domestic supply chains Altman also suggested the USA may bring back the supply chain of semiconductors to its own territory, avoiding complex purchasing and ￰11￱ aims to finance itself from its revenues, expanding its own compute capacity and selling some of it to third ￰12￱ company expects $20B in revenues for 2025, and up to $1.4T in commitments in the coming ￰13￱ does not believe any AI company should be bailed out, or turn OpenAI into a too-big-to-fail entity.

Instead, he expects AI companies to expand or fail on their own ￰14￱ still believes in speeding up the building of data centers, even at the risk of over-capacity, to anticipate bigger demand for AI ￰15￱ of October 2025, ChatGPT reports 800M weekly active users, achieving this result in just 35 ￰16￱ 19% of users are from the USA, and 7.9% from ￰17￱ platform expects to reach 1B total users onboarded by the end of the ￰18￱ also remains the most widely used AI assistant, retaining its market share against other ￰19￱ you're reading this, you’re already ￰20￱ there with our newsletter .