Tech Bytes

On October 6, 2025, Sam Altman, CEO of OpenAI, took the stage at DevDay 2025 in San Francisco to unveil a wave of new products and partnerships—but the real story emerged in his candid interview afterward. While the company announced impressive milestones like GPT-5 Pro, Sora 2 video generation, and reaching 800 million weekly ChatGPT users, Altman's most revealing insights came when discussing the brutal reality of building AI at this scale: compute is the bottleneck, and infrastructure is where he's spending most of his time.

In an exclusive interview with Ben Thompson of Stratechery, Altman opened up about OpenAI's infrastructure challenges, the company's vision for artificial general intelligence (AGI), and why massive hardware deals like the $6 billion AMD partnership are just the beginning of what's needed to serve the exploding demand for AI services.