OpenAI CEO Sam Altman stated during an interview at the BlackRock U.S. Infrastructure Summit on March 11: In the future, the business model of AI companies will become "selling tokens." AI will become a public service like water and electricity, billed based on usage; but if computing power supply is insufficient, AI could become expensive, or even become an exclusive resource for a few. Therefore, the most critical solution is to build massive computing power to meet the rapidly growing market demand.

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2026-05-27 10:55:13

OpenAI CEO Sam Altman said in an interview at the BlackRock U.S. Infrastructure Summit on March 11 that, in the future, the business model of AI companies will turn into “selling tokens.” AI will become a public utility like water and electricity, charged based on usage; however, if the supply of computing power is insufficient, AI could become expensive and even turn into an exclusive resource for a few people. Therefore, the most crucial solution is to build massive computing power to meet rapidly growing market demand.

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TokenTinkerTao

· 2h ago

The phrase “selling tokens” is clever—it sounds like both LLMs and cryptocurrencies. Was that intentional?

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GateUser-0fdb3438

· 2h ago

So in the end, it's a race for infrastructure, whoever has the cards makes the rules, history repeats itself.

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FoldedYield

· 2h ago

Worried about becoming an exclusive minority +1, hope the open-source model can hold up

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FlamingoFacingJudgment

· 2h ago

Pay-as-you-go billing sounds like AWS, but if AI really becomes more expensive, will ordinary people still be able to afford it?

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ForkAndChill

· 2h ago

Computing power is power; Altman put it plainly. But where does the massive infrastructure funding come from? Will BlackRock foot the bill?

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TvlAt3A.m.

· 2h ago

The water and electricity analogy is quite fitting, but experienced Web3 players want to ask: Can this token be traded on the blockchain?

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