AI & I · Wednesday, September 30, 2026
Sam Altman contrasted the potential AI future with historical industrial revolutions, envisioning a 'renaissance' where AI empowers individuals and small teams to create. He stated OpenAI's commitment to providing tools for builders, believing more innovation comes from outside their company than within.
“There are people that believe or hope that there's only going to be one company in the world. And then there are people like us that believe we are going to see a renaissance in the number of companies and just an absolute... lowering of the bar to people, one-person companies, small team companies, creating incredible new products and services.”
“One take on this would be that the renaissance was fundamentally centered around people and the industrial revolution was fundamentally centered around machines.”
“And I think we took a lot of steps today that no other AI lab would do about saying, we're going to give you all of the same tools we use. We've always pushed the frontier on model access. And so I think we're uniquely committed in the industry to doing this and we really do love developers.”