New Delhi, Nov. 9 -- OpenAI CEO Sam Altman clarified that the company will scale computing aggressively but will not take government guarantees for private data centres. He argued governments could build and own national AI compute reserves for strategic uses, while the market should decide which private firms succeed. Altman outlined financing plans, a $1.4 trillion infrastructure commitment, and why the company is investing now.

Sam Altman's recent post on X landed like a policy brief wrapped in a founder's plea: OpenAI will invest at scale to build the computing backbone it believes the world will need-but it will not ask taxpayers to underwrite private data centre expansion.

Here is a detailed post:

"I would like to clarify a few t...