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Compute Will Be The Future's Most Precious Commodity

Compute will become the currency of the future and possibly the most precious commodity in the world, because intelligence behaves like energy rather than like discrete consumer goods: demand is elastic to price, so at low prices the world will use vast amounts of compute for everyday tasks and at high prices only for the most valuable problems, meaning total demand will be enormous and hard to reason about.

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Speaker

Sam Altman

Evidence Quote

compute is different. Intelligence is going to be more like energy or something like that, where the only thing that I think makes sense to talk about is, at price X, the world will use this much compute, and at price Y, the world will use this much compute.

Source

Sam Altman #2Lex Fridman Podcast
Created: 6/13/2026, 3:36:04 AM

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