All the industries OpenAI is trying to disrupt (www.businessinsider.com)

Under Sam Altman’s reinvention of OpenAI, the company is pushing far beyond an R&D lab into a sweeping set of industries: search and browsers (ChatGPT vs Google; ChatGPT handles ~2.5 billion prompts/day vs Google’s ~14 billion searches/day), social media (Sora and the Sora‑2 video model with TikTok‑like leaderboards), robotics (humanoid ambitions, early Figure AI ties and trademark activity), consumer hardware (io Products acquisition with Jony Ive, $6.5B), payments and finance (PayPal integration in ChatGPT beginning 2026; acquisition of investing startup Roi), and healthcare (hiring Nate Gross and a $25B foundation pledge to help cure disease). OpenAI is also vertically integrating compute—announcing goals to deploy ~30 GW of data‑center capacity, spending plans of ~$1.4 trillion, an aspiration of 1 GW of compute per week, an Nvidia partnership with up to $100B in investment, and a Broadcom collaboration to build bespoke chips. For the AI/ML community this signals a shift from model research to end‑to‑end productization and hardware control. Technical implications include surging demand for specialized chips, new benchmarks and models for video and robotics, greater emphasis on safety/regulatory compliance in healthcare and payments, and intensified competition with incumbents (Google, Meta, ByteDance, Tesla). The move toward owning software, devices, and silicon could accelerate innovation but will also concentrate power, raise governance questions, and reshape priorities for tooling, datasets, and infrastructure in the field.