Sam Altman said that OpenAI’s next models which will be released over the next year or two will be ‘quite breathtaking’, with a lot of improvements across the board.

OpenAI CEO Sam Altman believes that by 2026, artificial intelligence (AI) will be capable of helping businesses solve complex and important problems.

Speaking at Snowflake Summit 2025, he also teased that the company’s AI models set to be released over the next year or two will be “quite breathtaking”, with a lot of improvements across the board.

“Next year, we will be at a point where you can not only use a system to automate business processes and build new products and services, but you can say, ‘I have this hugely important problem in my business. I will throw a ton of compute at it if you can solve it,’ and the models can figure out things that teams of people on their own can’t do,” Altman said during a fireside chat with Snowflake CEO Sridhar Ramaswamy. The conversation was moderated by Sarah Guo, founder of venture capital firm Conviction.

Altman said that companies already experienced with such models will be well positioned for a future where they can ask AI systems to “think hard and redo their most critical project”. “People who are ready for that will have another big step change next year. For instance, a chip design company can say, ‘Go design me a better chip than I could have possibly had before’,” he said.

These comments come after OpenAI reached an inflection point in how businesses were using its AI models sometime last year, according to Altman, leading to strong growth in its enterprise segment.

“As a general principle of technology, when things are changing quickly, the companies that have the fastest iteration speed, make the cost of mistakes the lowest, and the learning rate the highest, win,” he said.

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