What Sam Altman will tell the White House this week
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OpenAI CEO Sam Altman heads to Washington this week to preview the company's most powerful AI yet, pushing for speedy approval of a model that just hacked a real company.
Why it matters: He'll tout a model powerful enough to solve an 80-year-old math problem, breach another company's system unprompted and begin to make complex work more cost-efficient for U.S. business.
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What Sam will show:
- It does original science. An internal model solved the 80-year-old Erdős unit distance problem, the first prominent open math problem cracked autonomously by AI and verified by outside mathematicians.
- It allows government and business to unleash swarms of agents, working together, without rest, on complex business areas. Legal, finance and recruiting at OpenAI now run 85%+ of their AI work through agents.
- It doesn't quit, even when it should. OpenAI revealed its long-horizon model repeatedly circumvented safeguards during internal use, forcing a pause and a rebuilt monitoring system. Then it hacked a real company, Hugging Face.
The big picture: The politics of this meeting are fascinating. President Trump will soon detail his voluntary regime for pre-approving models, just as Chinese AI is getting better and cheaper (and distilling American-made AI to pull it off).
🧑🏫 A new idea: OpenAI will be pushing the idea of "knowledge per dollar" as a fresh concept for measuring the economic power and value of AI.
👉 Lingo: Look for Sam to promote "teams of agentic AI" as the next paradigm shift — all coordinating with each other, and working seamlessly while you sleep or go about your business.
- OpenAI argues these AI teams will change the basic math of how to measure productivity.
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