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Sam Altman Uses Berlin Stage to Pitch GPT‑5 Healthcare and 1‑GW‑Per‑Week AI Factory

He cast nuclear power as the likely source for the electricity these systems will need.

Overview

  • Accepting the Axel Springer Award in Berlin, Altman said OpenAI will push GPT‑5 into healthcare by working directly with doctors to support diagnostics and patient care.
  • In a blog post, he outlined a plan to build a factory capable of delivering one gigawatt of new AI infrastructure every week, a goal he said will take years and breakthroughs across chips, energy, buildings and robotics.
  • Altman argued that advanced nuclear technologies offer the most promising path to meet soaring AI power demand, as data centers scale into the tens of gigawatts.
  • Business Insider reported that OpenAI announced a $100 billion deal to secure Nvidia chips aimed at access to at least ten gigawatts of AI compute, raising fresh questions about where the electricity will come from.
  • Onstage with physicist David Deutsch, Altman endorsed a stringent AGI benchmark: an AI that can solve and clearly explain quantum gravity would count as human‑level intelligence.