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Amir Efrati @ The Information · 05/12/2025 14:04 EDT

Altman’s Cosmic Vision

By hiring Instacart CEO Fidji Simo to manage OpenAI’s business, CEO Sam Altman can focus on his primary ambition: attaining artificial superintelligence. The term refers to technology that would help humans solve fundamental scientific challenges around energy and physics to become multiplanetary, colonizing other planets and eventually other star systems, according to a person who has heard him speak about it.At OpenAI, Altman has even discussed the grandiose idea of colonizing the light cone, an astronomi

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