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Compute Supply

Artwork for Stanford CS153 Frontier Systems | Scale, AGI, and the Future of Everything
Stanford CS153 Frontier SystemsSam Altman

Stanford CS153 Frontier Systems | Scale, AGI, and the Future of Everything

Sam Altman argues that AI changes startup economics, with token spend substituting for large teams and scale producing unexpected emergent returns. He also says frontier labs must build for inference, expects compute shortages to persist, and warns education and redistribution systems need redesign in an AI-native world.