Get Sam Altman on Lex Fridman Podcast

Sam Altman on Lex matters today because OpenAI just committed to a $10 billion, 750‑megawatt compute deal with Cerebras through 2028, a move that could reshape the AI hardware race and determine how fast frontier models progress. Five days earlier OpenAI and SoftBank put $1 billion into SB Energy and signed a 1.2‑gigawatt Texas data center lease, signaling an immediate expansion of the power and infrastructure needed to train the next generation of models.

This comes as a federal judge indicated Elon Musk’s fraud lawsuit against OpenAI and Altman will be decided by a jury in 2026, putting governance and mission questions under a national spotlight right now. Altman can speak directly to the staggering scale of OpenAI’s plans, including a longer term push toward tens of gigawatts of compute and trillion‑dollar infrastructure commitments that will affect everything from energy policy to the AI ecosystem in 2026.

He has been on Lex before, including episodes released March 25, 2023 and March 18, 2024, so there is real context to compare how his stance has evolved. Get behind this and support this nomination today.