Invest Like the Best with Patrick O'Shaughnessy · Tuesday, July 28, 2026
Sam Altman describes OpenAI's core mission as providing a platform of the best, most abundant, and most useful AI, akin to electricity, that permeates the entire economy. He emphasizes a focus on training great models, securing compute, building data centers, and eventually automating processes with robots, rather than building every vertical application.
“Fundamentally, our business is to sell AI that people will build incredible products and services for each other with.”
“And that kind of whole stack of making the best, the most abundant, the most useful AI that we can, and making it something like electricity that just seeps throughout the entire economy and empowers people.”
“That's kind of what we have to focus on. Building every vertical application on top of that, try to like go eat every startup, eat every company. No interest in doing that. We just want to provide that platform.”