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News of the day
1. OpenAI CEO Sam Altman is reportedly in talks with President Trump about giving the US government a 5% stake in the company, potentially worth billions. → Read more
2. Chinese AI startup Deepseek is reportedly designing its own AI chip, aiming to enhance its capabilities and reduce reliance on external hardware providers. → Read more
3. Databricks unveils Vibe Data Modeling, an LLM agent that transforms plain English business descriptions into governed, deployable Silver-layer data models in hours. → Read more
4. Companies are shifting budgets from people to AI tokens, but the promised returns are often not materializing, leading to reevaluation. → Read more
Our take
Hi Dotikers!
Sam Altman has a new idea to make you love OpenAI: giving you a tiny piece of it. According to the Financial Times, the OpenAI boss is in talks with Donald Trump about handing 5% of the company to the US government, reviving an old promise he has been repeating since 2021: Americans should share in the wealth created by AI.
Let's do the math, as MIT Technology Review did. OpenAI is valued at 852 billion dollars. A 5% stake split across 133 million American households comes out to roughly 320 dollars per family. Which is about what OpenAI will charge you back in ChatGPT subscriptions over the year. The circle is complete.
Let's be clear: this plan is not public policy, it's a communications exercise. Altman has been talking about it for five years, and there is still no concrete mechanism on the table. The timing, however, is crystal clear. The Trump administration loves taking stakes in tech companies (Intel, Nvidia), and staying in its good graces has become vital for American labs. Offering 5% to the government is not redistribution, it's a political insurance policy. And, conveniently, an elegant way to convince the public that the boom will be big enough to share, and therefore that it should be allowed to continue.
Which brings us straight back to yesterday's article. Arthur Mensch, Mistral's CEO, warned about the immense leverage that closed model providers are building over their customers. The underlying question is the same: who captures the value of AI. Altman's answer is a symbolic check for citizens while the infrastructure, the data and the power stay exactly where they are. Counting on that generosity for your slice of the pie is mistaking the menu for the meal.
Alex.
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