Sam Altman says OpenAI wants to sell intelligence like a utility
During a recent appearance at BlackRock in Washington, D.C., OpenAI’s Sam Altman, shared his vision for the future of AI. At one point saying, “We see a future where intelligence is a utility, like electricity or water, and people buy it from us on a meter.”
Altman was describing a world where AI becomes a foundational infrastructure, something woven into everyday life so deeply that consumers and businesses simply “plug into” it the same way they rely on electricity, Wi-Fi or running water.
Scary to think what the actually enshittified version will be like…
It could go bust first. The reason he’s talking so much is because he needs the attention to hide the fact that OpenAI doesn’t really have any real advantage anymore. Claude models tend to be faster and Chinese models tend to be cheaper (especially since they’re open weight so there are many providers for any given model if you can’t or don’t want to self host. You can get latest Qwen for a tenth of the price of latest GPT on openrouter right now. Even Claude Opus is marginally cheaper than GPT.