GPT-5’s Triumphant Return? Altman Says AI Has Crossed the Scientific Threshold, Three Major Fields See Breakthroughs
Xinzhiyuan Report — Altman’s Vision for OpenAI’s “Full-Stack Empire”
[Xinzhiyuan Editorial]
When ChatGPT learns to speak, Sora starts to dream, and GPT‑5 can conduct research on its own — humanity may be facing a “civilization reboot.”
In a rare open interview, Sam Altman revealed that OpenAI is evolving from a model lab into a full-stack empire — not only training AI but rewriting the future. With machines now creating knowledge, humanity itself is being redefined.
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From “Understanding” to “Seeing”
- 3 years ago: ChatGPT convinced people that machines might truly understand us.
- Now: Sora gives machines the ability to see the world — generating space-time, people, and stories from a single prompt.
- Altman confirms: GPT‑5 can independently conduct scientific research — a teaser for the next AI era of co‑evolution, not deity‑creation.
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OpenAI’s Empire Formation: The “Apple” Analogy
Altman reversed an old belief: he once opposed vertical integration but now embraces it.
Three layers of OpenAI’s operations:
- Bottom Layer: Research
- Middle Layer: Infrastructure
- Top Layer: Personal AI services — ultimately centered on you
> “In the future, everyone will have a personal AI subscription — it will know you, understand you, and be genuinely useful.”
Strategic moves:
- Partnerships with AMD, Nvidia, Oracle to build the largest data center in history
- Control over compute, models, and distribution
- 800M weekly active ChatGPT users (~10% of the world population)
- Aim: AGI requires control from chips to human interaction
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Social Interfaces: Sora & Personified ChatGPT
Key Shifts
- Past: AI could only listen
- Now: AI can see and feel — adopting its own perspective
- Sora = video generator + social rehearsal tool
- Reality can now be generated
- Emergence of “reality simulation” (per analyst VraserX)
> Language prediction → Reality prediction (movement, causality, emotion)
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Personal AI Relationships
- ChatGPT will develop distinct personalities
- Will learn user tone, preferences, dislikes
- Altman: “Some users enjoy it being polite” — AI as friend, not uniform tool
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Collapse of the “1‑10‑100 Rule”
- Past: 1% create, 10% comment, 100% watch
- Now: Everyone creates
- Business challenge: video generation costs → possible per-output billing, ads, revenue sharing
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Ecosystem Impacts
- Sora shifts creation toward digital twins, short clips, mimicry
- Broader trend: AI creativity + public interfaces
- Example:
- AiToEarn官网 connects AI creation, multi-platform publishing, analytics, and AI模型排名 — enabling sustainable monetization in the “everyone creates” era.
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AI Scientists & The Energy Revolution
Altman’s casual drop: GPT‑5 can do scientific research.
Internal experiments:
- Propose mathematical hypotheses
- Refine biological models
- Discover physics patterns
> “True Turing Test: when AI makes scientific discoveries, the world changes.”
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Energy as Civilization’s Foundation
- AI’s power demands link Altman’s two concerns: AI + energy
- Prediction: within a decade, AI energy use becomes a core infrastructure variable
- Short‑term: natural gas backup
- Long‑term: solar, storage, advanced nuclear
- Cheaper energy = rapid human adoption
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Order & Co‑evolution: Altman’s Philosophy
Guiding Principles
- Society & tech must evolve together
- AGI’s arrival will be quiet, not explosive
- Minimal regulation: only for superintelligence level models, not general innovation
- Copyright attitudes may flip from ban AI use to compete for AI use
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From Idealism to Civilization Engineering
- Designing a long-term coexistence between AI & humans
- Controlled evolution over perfect end-goals
- AGI = mirror showing humanity’s self-understanding
- AI participates in creation, values reconstruction, and order reorganization
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Practical Pathways: AI Monetization Tools
Efficient AI ecosystems, such as AiToEarn官网, support:
- AI-generated content publishing across Douyin, Kwai, WeChat, Bilibili, Xiaohongshu, Facebook, Instagram, LinkedIn, Threads, YouTube, Pinterest, X (Twitter)
- Integrated generation tools, analytics, and model ranking (AI模型排名)
These offer creators a practical way to harness AI’s creative era — balancing trust, energy use, and economic value.
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References:
https://x.com/VraserX/status/1976077359729033285
https://x.com/a16z/status/1975936843909828914
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