OpenAI Chief Executive Officer Sam Altman told journalists that the company expects to raise and eventually spend “trillions of dollars” on data-center infrastructure needed to train and run its next generation of artificial-intelligence models. He described the build-out as necessary in the “not very distant future” and said management is exploring financing options large enough to support the project. Altman acknowledged the challenge of securing capital on that scale and said the company will "have to go public someday, probably," signalling that an initial public offering is under consideration as a potential funding route. He did not give a timetable or specify how the money would be structured between equity and debt. While outlining the aggressive expansion plans, Altman conceded that the current enthusiasm for AI resembles a financial bubble similar to the late-1990s dot-com era. “Someone is going to lose a phenomenal amount of money,” he said, though he maintained that, overall, the technology should deliver a “huge net win for the economy.”