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โ€œThe two most important commodities in the future are going to be intelligence and energy.โ€

โ€” Sam Altman
FEB 10, 2026a16z

Sam Altman on Sora, Energy, and Building an AI Empire

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    OpenAI's strategy is built on a unified thesis of scaling intelligence -- rather than making random products, every bet they make is designed to feed into a singular mission of building a vertically integrated AI empire.

    โ€œThe two most important commodities in the future are going to be intelligence and energy.โ€

    โ€” Sam Altman
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    Sora is more than just a video generator; it's a world simulator -- the goal of the model is to teach AI to understand and predict the physical laws of the universe by learning from visual data.

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    Energy and compute have become the primary bottlenecks for AI progress -- the shift from software development to massive infrastructure means that securing power and hardware is now the most critical part of the scaling roadmap.