sam altman, the ceo of openai, revealed in a recent interview that chatgpt has achieved a breakthrough from 1 to 10, and it's likely that the evolution from 10 to 100 will accelerate even further. altman discussed the evolution of ai from chatbots to general artificial intelligence (agi) with vinod khosla, the founder of sun microsystems, and predicted that it will bring unprecedented major changes to existing fortune 500 companies. altman pointed out that the software industry will be fundamentally rebuilt in the future. users will only need to explain their needs in natural language, and ai will instantly generate complete applications, threatening the collapse of the traditional saas business model.
altman emphasized that ai will penetrate most knowledge fields, but jobs requiring emotional connections will still be irreplaceable. taking education as an example, he argued that although ai can convey more knowledge, it cannot replicate the emotional motivation of human teachers. regarding the speed of technological development, altman suggested that ai's capabilities could make a "leap from 10 to 100" in the next 18 months, and gpt-6 could achieve 10 times the performance of gpt-5. this progress will reflect not only on algorithms but also on innovations across the entire industrial chain, such as the development of ai acceleration chips and the construction of data centers.
regarding business investment, altman proposed that investors should focus on new fields promoted by ai rather than imitating existing models. he revealed that openai was initially established as a research institute, but transitioned to product development after discovering the law of scaling. he also explained that chatgpt emerged from a deep user interaction experiment using gpt-3. regarding the accessibility of ai, altman advocated avoiding technological monopoly through the popularization of low-cost tools and the democratization of computing power. he believed that ai would ultimately promote social equality rather than exacerbate divisions.
