# Sam Altman阐述OpenAI战略：从高利润软件公司转型为智能基础设施

- 来源：Rohan Paul (@rohanpaul_ai)
- 发布时间：2026-05-03 20:14
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- 原文链接：https://x.com/rohanpaul_ai/status/2050911864008372247

## AI 摘要

OpenAI首席执行官Sam Altman指出，公司不满足于仅作为高利润AI工具软件商，核心目标是成为经济中的智能基础设施层。OpenAI希望像“智能电表”一样嵌入企业、产品和工作流底层，使AI消费如电力或云计算般普及。随着模型智能化，切换AI服务将更便捷，因此竞争防御性来自成为大规模最廉价、有用和可靠的智能公用事业，而非锁定客户。其战略是与整体经济成功对齐：企业通过OpenAI智能层实现自动化、创新和增长，OpenAI则随之扩张。这类似基础设施业务，Altman接受公司成为低利润但深度嵌入全球经济的实体，仿效Amazon Web Services模式。未来AI行业的赢家或将是成为全球智能使用默认“电表”的企业。

## 正文

Sam Altman is basically saying OpenAI does not want to be just another high-margin software company selling AI tools.

The bigger ambition is to become the core intelligence infrastructure layer for the economy.

i.e. OpenAI wants to sit underneath companies， products， workflows， agents， consumer apps， internal automation systems， developer tools， and business processes. Not just as a chatbot. Not just as an API.

But as something closer to an "intelligence meter"， where people and companies consume AI the way they consume electricity， cloud compute， or internet bandwidth.

The key point is about margin philosophy.

Altman is saying that AI may not remain a very high-margin business forever. As models get smarter， switching from 1 AI to another becomes easier. A company can ask an agent to migrate code， replace workflows， test alternatives， and move faster than before. So defensibility may not come from locking customers into a single app.

It may come from becoming the cheapest， most useful， most reliable intelligence utility at massive scale.

That is a very different OpenAI strategy than "build the best AI app and charge premium prices."

The real strategy sounds more like， that OpenAI wants to align itself with the success of the whole economy. If companies automate more， build more， sell more， ship faster， and create new products using OpenAI's intelligence layer， then OpenAI grows with them.

This is closer to an infrastructure business than a normal software business.

The important part is that Altman seems comfortable with OpenAI becoming a huge low-margin company， as long as it becomes deeply embedded in global economic activity. That is a very Amazon Web Services-style idea， but for intelligence instead of cloud servers.

So in the future the winning AI company may not the one with the fattest margins， but the one that becomes the default meter for intelligence usage across the world.

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