New Delhi, Feb. 12 -- Even as a group of investors led by Elon Musk offered $97.4 billion to buy the nonprofit behind OpenAI, to which CEO Sam Altman replied on X (formerly Twitter) to say "no thank you but we will buy Twitter for $9.74 billion if you want", he also took to his popular blog to share more philosophical views around AI, specifically the growth of Artificial General Intelligence (AGI) and AI agents.

Altman made three remarks about the economics of AI, including the observation that "the intelligence of an AI model roughly equals the log of the resources used to train and run it."; that the cost to use a given level of AI falls about 10x every 12 months, and lower prices lead to much more use; and that the socioeconomic valu...