In the 2030s intelligence and energy will become wildly abundant.

Sam Altman, OpenAI · made June 2025 · target Dec 2039 · Open

In the 2030s, intelligence and energy [...] are going to become wildly abundant.

Sam Altman, The Gentle Singularity (Sam Altman). [...] marks words left out.

The prediction

Who: Sam Altman, CEO, OpenAI
Made: June 2025
Target: Dec 31, 2039 (stated as "in the 2030s")
Status: Openin 13 years
Source: The Gentle Singularity (Sam Altman) Primary: their own words
Topics: AGI,Compute

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Made	Prediction	Target	Topic	Status
Oct 28, 2025	OpenAI will have a fully automated AI researcher by 2028.Open · Unverified · target Dec 2028	Dec 2028by 2028	Agents	Open
Oct 28, 2025	OpenAI will have an intern-level AI research assistant by September 2026.Open · Unverified · target Sep 2026	Sep 2026by September 2026	Agents	Open
Jun 10, 2025	2027 may see robots that can do tasks in the real world.Open · target Dec 2027	Dec 20272027	Robotics	Open
Jun 10, 2025	2026 will likely see AI systems that can figure out novel insights.Open · target Dec 2026	Dec 20262026	Science	Open
February 2025	By 2035 anyone will command intellectual capacity equal to everyone alive in 2025.Open · target Dec 2035	Dec 2035in 2035	AGI	Open
Jan 6, 2025	In 2025 the first AI agents may join the workforce and materially change the output of companies.Due for review · target Dec 2025	Dec 2025in 2025	Agents	Due for review
Sep 23, 2024	Superintelligence could arrive in a few thousand days.Open · target Dec 2032	Dec 2032in a few thousand days (about 3,000 days, read as late 2032)	AGI	Open

Made	Prediction	Target	Topic	Status
Sep 17, 2026	By the end of 2030 each leading lab will have compute to run hundreds of millions of human-level AIs.Open · Unverified · Noam Brown, OpenAI · target Dec 2030	Dec 2030by the end of 2030	Compute	Open
September 2026	At least two countries will turn data-center ratepayer protection into tariffs or equivalent obligations in 2027.Open · Forrester · target Dec 2027	Dec 2027in 2027	Compute	Open
Sep 10, 2026	There will be no meaningful relief in memory supply for enterprise storage before 2028.Open · IDC · target Dec 2027	Dec 2027before 2028	Data	Open
Aug 31, 2026	AI-run asteroid mining corporations may appear by 2033.Open · Jack Clark, Anthropic · target Dec 2033	Dec 2033by 2033	AGI	Open
Aug 26, 2026	Nvidia revenue for the third quarter of fiscal 2027 will be about $108 billion, plus or minus 2%.Open · Nvidia · target Oct 2026	Oct 2026third quarter of fiscal 2027	Compute	Open
August 2026	China will have 30 gigawatts of AI compute or less in 2028.Open · Unverified · Dylan Patel, SemiAnalysis · target Dec 2028	Dec 2028in 2028	Compute	Open

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