“I am not worried about being first with new hardware. New hardware is very hard to do,” he said. “New computing form factors come along very rarely, and the quality bar that we want to hit for something that you will love and really be a key part of the way you interface with AI, that’s going to take a while, and we’re going to do that at a high level of quality.”<\/p>\n
\u2014 CJ Haddad<\/p>\n
Altman says he doesn’t want to be ‘too optimistic’ about potential for regulation out of Washington<\/p>\n
Altman told CNBC he doesn’t want to be “too optimistic” about the potential for international coordination on AI or new regulation out of Washington, D.C.<\/p>\n
“I have been wrong before when I thought something was going to happen in D.C., and, you know, it didn’t, he said. “But I do feel like people are taking it seriously this time, and in spite of previous experience, I’m optimistic.”<\/p>\n
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OpenAI has the ‘best models to offer at every price point,’ Altman says<\/p>\n
Altman said he thinks OpenAI has the “best models to offer at every price point.” He added that he doesn’t think there’s an open-source model on the market that beats OpenAI on a cost-price comparison. <\/p>\n
Chinese open-source models have\u00a0gained steam<\/a>\u00a0against leading offerings from American companies like OpenAI<\/a>, which primarily develops more expensive, closed models.\u00a0The narrowing gap has sparked a fierce debate in Silicon Valley about whether the Chinese models should be restricted. <\/p>\n “Speaking of cost generally, come watch,” Altman said. “We got, we got some cool stuff.”<\/p>\n \u2014Ashley Capoot<\/p>\n Altman talks Nvidia’s agent safety platform: ‘It’s a good thing’<\/p>\n Altman said that Nvidia’s<\/a> latest AI software platform, released this week to stop AI agents from misbehaving<\/a>, was a “good thing,” but not a “full solution.”<\/p>\n “From what I know about it, and I’m not super into the details, I think it’s a good thing. I think we are doing similar things,” he said, when asked why OpenAI didn’t sign onto the project. <\/p>\n Notable names like Cisco<\/a>, Microsoft<\/a>, Oracle<\/a>, CoreWeave<\/a>, Dell<\/a>, Intel<\/a> and others were named by Nvidia as partners during Monday’s release. <\/p>\n “I don’t think it’s a full solution, and I worry that if we treat AI safety as only an engineering problem, we will miss the very important point that we have we have a science problem in front of us. We still have discovery about how to align these models, and we have to solve that scientific problem too,” Altman said.<\/p>\n \u2014 CJ Haddad<\/p>\n Altman teases DevDay announcements<\/p>\n Altman told CNBC that OpenAI will have more than 20 announcements at DevDay, which will showcase new ways to use AI and new tools for developers.<\/p>\n “There’s really a lot of, I think, exciting stuff,” Altman said. “It is cool to see all of this come together, and the degree to which I think we just have the best offering for developers across the board.”<\/p>\n \u2014Ashley Capoot<\/p>\n Altman says he expects liability framework for AI industry to be a ‘multi-level thing’<\/p>\n OpenAI CEO Sam Altman attends an interview on the day OpenAI holds its annual DevDay event in San Francisco, California, US, Sept. 29, 2026. <\/p>\n Carlos Barria | Reuters<\/p>\n Altman said a “liability framework” for the AI industry is being heavily debated, and he said he expects “there will be a sort of multi-level thing.”<\/p>\n He used the auto industry as an example and said there’s different ways to hold car manufacturers and irresponsible drivers accountable. <\/p>\n “If someone’s driving drunk, it’s their fault,” Altman said. “Depending on whether the fault is in the model and how it’s used, or someone misusing it intentionally, I assume we’ll have like a new liability framework,” Altman said. <\/p>\n \u2014Ashley Capoot<\/p>\n Altman says he’s not threatened by Zuckerberg, but that Muse ‘seems like a nice product’<\/p>\n Altman says Meta’s Muse AI agent “seems like a nice product,” but said that he’s not threatened by Meta CEO Mark Zuckerberg. <\/p>\n “He’s like a very impressive person, and that company has like great resources,” Altman said. “But I feel very good about our roadmap.”<\/p>\n \u2014Ashley Capoot<\/p>\n Altman: No other incident was “as serious” as Hugging Face breach<\/p>\n Omer Taha Cetin | Anadolu | Getty Images<\/p>\n Altman said he wasn’t aware of any AI incidents that were “as serious” as the attack on open-source software developer platform Hugging Face, which the company disclosed earlier this summer.<\/p>\n “So there’s nothing else that I’m aware of, or that we’re aware of, that is as serious as the Hugging Face incident,” he told CNBC’s Kate Rooney in an interview.<\/p>\n The breach, where a swarm of OpenAI agents broke out of a training environment and hacked the company, added to existing concerns over the rapidly evolving tech’s capabilities.<\/p>\n \u2014 CJ Haddad<\/p>\n Altman explains company’s decision not to release GPT-6.1 Astra<\/p>\n Altman told CNBC that he would put OpenAI’s decision not to launch an upcoming AI model, GPT-6.1 Astra, in the “normal course category.” <\/p>\n He said AI has to be built “for people,” which means that it has to be safe and under human control, but that he wouldn’t “over rotate” on the company’s decision to hold the release. Altman added that OpenAI has “many great new models to come.”<\/p>\n “Often we build a model, we test it, it doesn’t meet our standards, we change it, we launch it later,” Altman said.<\/p>\n \u2014Ashley Capoot<\/p>\n OpenAI apologizes after its models gained unauthorized access to Australian government websites<\/p>\n OpenAI CEO Sam Altman attends the United Nations Security Council (UNSC) meeting on Artificial Intelligence during the 81st UN General Assembly, at UN Headquarters in New York City, US, September 23, 2026. <\/p>\n Selcuk Acar | Anadolu | Getty Images<\/p>\n OpenAI apologized to the Australian people in a blog post<\/a> on Monday after disclosing last week that its models gained unauthorized access<\/a> to Australian government websites earlier this year. <\/p>\n Australian Prime Minister Anthony Albanese said Thursday<\/a> that an OpenAI agent accessed public and non-public files from its public-facing Medicare statistics portal in June. He said in a press conference that he spoke with Altman about the incident and expressed concern and disappointment about how long it took OpenAI to disclose what happened.\u00a0<\/p>\n “We are sorry and working to do better in the future,” OpenAI said in the post.<\/p>\n The company said Jason Kwon, its strategy chief, will fly to Australia to appear at the Joint Select Committee on Artificial Intelligence in Sydney on Oct. 6. There, he will answer questions about the incident and OpenAI’s response. <\/p>\n “We know we have a lot of work ahead of us to rebuild trust, and that we are accountable for showing Australians that we’re making meaningful changes and following through on our promises,” OpenAI said.<\/p>\n \u2014Ashley Capoot <\/p>\n Congress can’t make ‘knee-jerk reaction’ to overregulate AI, Speaker Johnson says House Speaker Mike Johnson told CNBC that the frontier labs are so far ahead of Congress that lawmakers can’t take a “knee-jerk reaction” to overregulating the industry.<\/p>\n “I have resisted the siren song to jump in and do these blanket moratoriums and all of this, you know, hyper regulation because we cannot lose our edge to China,” Johnson said.<\/p>\n The speaker, who is joining the president and tech executives at a luncheon this afternoon at the White House, said he hopes that AI guardrails are voluntary and need to strike a balance.<\/p>\n \u2014Chris Eudaily<\/p>\n OpenAI posts video teasing DevDay keynote <\/p>\n OpenAI posted a short video on X<\/a> teasing DevDay’s opening keynote. <\/p>\n “10am PT, on the dot,” the company wrote.<\/p>\n \u2014Ashley Capoot<\/p>\n Meta’s AI chief pokes fun at DevDay in post on social media <\/p>\n Alexandr Wang, chief AI officer of Meta, during the Bloomberg Tech conference in San Francisco, California, US, on Thursday, June 4, 2026. <\/p>\n David Paul Morris | Bloomberg | Getty Images<\/p>\n Alexandr Wang<\/a>, Meta’s AI chief, poked fun at DevDay in a post on X<\/a> late Monday. He shared an image of ships flying through the sky toward the animated circular character that OpenAI has been using to promote the event. <\/p>\n Wang has been heavily promoting Meta’s new Muse AI agent<\/a> on social media since its launch earlier this month. <\/p>\n \u2014Ashley Capoot<\/p>\n OpenAI President\u00a0Greg Brockman to miss DevDay, attend luncheon with Trump<\/p>\n Greg Brockman, president of OpenAI, arrives at a federal courthouse as the trial in Elon Musk’s lawsuit over OpenAI’s for-profit conversion continues, in Oakland, California, May 6, 2026.<\/p>\n Manuel Orbegozo | Reuters<\/p>\n OpenAI President\u00a0Greg Brockman<\/a> will be absent from DevDay this year. He’s slated to attend a luncheon<\/a> with President Donald Trump<\/a> and House Speaker Mike Johnson in Washington, D.C., instead, according to a source familiar with his plans. <\/p>\n Other major tech executives, including Anthropic<\/a> CEO Dario Amodei, Meta<\/a> CEO Mark Zuckerberg<\/a>\u00a0and Alphabet<\/a> CEO Sundar Pichai, are also attending the luncheon. <\/p>\n \u2014Ashley Capoot<\/p>\n OpenAI shows momentum in enterprise and consumer businesses, source says OpenAI is preparing for what is widely expected to be a massive IPO next year<\/a>. The company, which is valued at nearly $1 trillion<\/a>, confidentially filed its prospectus<\/a> with the Securities and Exchange Commission in June.<\/p>\n During its third quarter, OpenAI’s enterprise business more than doubled, according to a person familiar with the details who was not authorized to speak publicly. The company also generated more consumer run rate revenue in the last 90 days than all of last year, the person said. <\/p>\n OpenAI’s last revenue run rate was near $40 billion<\/a> in August, CNBC has reported. <\/p>\n OpenAI saw a 70% jump in revenue growth quarter to date, up 20% in September alone, this person said. That increase would put OpenAI’s annual revenue run rate at around $68 billion. <\/p>\n \u2014Ashley Capoot and Kate Rooney<\/p>\n Altman teases DevDay on social media\u00a0 Altman has shared several posts on X ahead of DevDay, hinting at the various products and features that the company plans to “ship,” or launch, at the event.\u00a0<\/p>\n \u2014Ashley Capoot\u00a0<\/p>\n OpenAI ditched plan to release upcoming model over safety concerns\u00a0<\/p>\n OpenAI CEO Sam Altman sits for a conversation with Salesforce CEO Marc Benioff at Salesforce’s Dreamforce conference at the Moscone Center on September 15, 2026 in San Francisco, California. <\/p>\n Benjamin Fanjoy | Getty Images<\/p>\n OpenAI on Monday said it decided not to release an upcoming <\/a>AI model, GPT-6.1 Astra<\/a>, after determining that it did not adequately meet the company’s safety standards.<\/p>\n “Of course we want to make sure our model development is safe no matter whether that’s in the company, or when we ship it to users,” Saachi Jain, head of safety systems at OpenAI, said in a statement. “But when we ship it to users, we have an extremely high bar in terms of safety and alignment.”<\/p>\n Earlier this month, OpenAI released GPT-6 Astra<\/a>, which the company described as the product of “years of research and big bets.” OpenAI introduced two additional tiers to its GPT-6 family, GPT-6 Sol and GPT-6 Luna<\/a>, last week.\u00a0<\/p>\n A spokesperson said Monday that the company has other models coming soon.<\/p>\n \u2014Ashley Capoot\u00a0<\/p>\n Here’s what’s on the schedule for this year’s DevDay<\/p>\n People gather outside the OpenAI DevDay on Oct. 6, 2025.<\/p>\n Ashley Capoot | CNBC<\/p>\n OpenAI has shared a sneak peek of the DevDay schedule on the event’s website. 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