# [Sam Altman has brought the current AI revolution to us](https://x.com/vitrupo/status/1906270201357762800)  *** <iframe title="LinkedIn's Hoffman on AI Revolution, Sam Altman, Elon Musk - YouTube" src="https://www.youtube.com/embed/2kIEjanSydM?feature=oembed" height="113" width="200" allowfullscreen="" allow="fullscreen" style="aspect-ratio: 1.76991 / 1; width: 100%; height: 100%;"></iframe> #### [[👤Reid Hoffman]]: Look, I think Sam’s biggest contribution to humanity will be OpenAI. And that’s saying a lot, considering he’s already done other impressive things and made great investments, like in Infusion and more. What really stands out is his ability to think big and to fully commit to the idea that scaling compute and scaling learning systems would lead to major breakthroughs. That’s why OpenAI was able to lead this current AI revolution. These machines learn—and they learn from what we help teach them. Look, I think... that’s it. The End. #🤖Reid_Hoffman *** - [[What really stands out is his ability to think big and to fully commit to the idea that scaling compute and scaling learning systems would lead to major breakthroughs]] - [[The most important piece of knowledge discovered in his lifetime was that scaling AI models leads to unbelievable, predictable improvements in intelligence]] - [[I was skeptical about OpenAI before I met Sam Altman until Sam explained that AI capability scaled predictably with compute and data, and I continue to hold to this principle]] - [[OpenAI has a 2-year lead in the AI race, and this gives them an "escape velocity" advantage]] - [[The success of AI models so far has been due to an 'irrational conviction' that scale would make models smarter and he thinks this will continue to hold true]] - [[He believes OpenAI has a pathway to AGI and beyond, and what he's most excited about is AI accelerating the process of scientific discovery and technological breakthroughs to make life better for everyone]] - [[Sam Altman has told him he wants to do a $1 trillion training run for an AI model, which could lead to understanding the nature of physics and solving engineering problems like nuclear fusion]] - [[OpenAI has a pathway to AGI and beyond, and what he's most excited about is AI accelerating the process of scientific discovery and technological breakthroughs to make life better for everyone]] - [[Every place I have worked before had a fixed technology floor, but at OpenAI every month or two computers can do something they have never been able to do in the history of the world and you can't quite see what's coming]]