Altman Says OpenAI Will Aim Its Robots at Building Data Centers

OpenAI will point its robotics programme at building data centres, CEO Sam Altman said on Stripe co-founder John Collison's Cheeky Pint podcast, The Next Web reported. He called self-replicating data centres, built with AI-controlled robots, "within grasp."

"People talk a lot about RSI as an AI that does AI research. There's very little, relatively little talk about self-replicating data centers," Altman said. He described robots running chip factories, building turbines and solar panels, and building data centres: "And so we'll try to make a lot of really cheap compute."

Altman said OpenAI has made its own chip, which he said does well on intelligence per watt, and is learning to build its own data centres. On why high memory and chip prices have not brought more supply, he said: "I think the invisible hand is failing right now."