Sam Altman admits OpenAI ‘totally screwed up’ its GPT-5 launch and says the company will spend trillions of dollars on data centers

fortune.com/2025/08/18/sam-altman-openai-chatgpt5-launch-data-centers-investments

Altman said GPT-5’s launch was botched after backlash over the model’s colder persona forced OpenAI to reinstate GPT-4o for users. He also predicted OpenAI will need to spend trillions on data centers to scale ChatGPT. In addition, Altman is eyeing brain-computer interfaces, a possible…

This story appeared on fortune.com, 2025-08-18 20:54:38.976000.
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