New Eye-Scanning Orb Revealed by Sam Altman's World video

All right, welcome everyone. We know many people flew in. So it's like a really big deal for us that you're here. This is a big day for us. Um We started working on this about five years ago and back then, we really believed that something like this should exist in an A I future that we all want to live in. And so not only do we think what we do is critical. We also think it's very, very timely and that is why one of the main themes of today is about scale and how we can get all the products and services that we built to many, many more people in the next years. But before we talk about the extra products, we wanted to talk a little bit about why we are even here, why we started this? And what is top of mind for us? And with that Sam, why didn't you talk a little bit about that? Great uh Nice to see all of you. So we started this a long time ago with a belief that at the time seemed very unusual uh which was the A I progress was about to go very rapid. And we thought that if A I happened, if, if A I fulfilled the dream, uh we still have a long way to go, but we've made a lot of progress since then. It was going to be the most powerful tool that humans had yet created. It would change the economy, it would change society in all sorts of ways. And the thing that we hoped for the most with A I and the things we wanted to build around A I is that A I would really accelerate people. This idea that A I was a tool that people would use, not an entity on its own and that people were going to be able to do things in the world that they just couldn't have done before. And we started thinking about the infrastructure that society was going to need. If A I really started to happen, you know, what, what does it take to get to this great outcome for the world? We could imagine a world back then and even more now with lots of A I tools that let people do far more than they ever could before. Lots of A I agents off doing things. Uh And one thing we thought for sure is that the world was gonna need a new, a new layer of infrastructure um for this to be able to happen, that you wanted the ability to uh verify humanity. You wanted to know who the people were, you wanted to be able to provide great infrastructure for humans and agents to be sending resources back and forth and doing all sorts of things and communicating with each other. And we thought that maybe uh if there were a way to build a new network, that it would be a powerful step forward towards doing this. And so with that, we came up with a simple plan and that plan didn't change much since then. And I don't think it will change much going forward and it had four big steps. That's it. The first one was about building a proof of human system that can be deployed globally. It is fully anonymous. Then second, use that infrastructure to launch a digital token by giving ownership in it to eventually every human and use that to get the the network to critical scale. Then third continues to scale and decentralize the network to then eventually among many other great things that we hope this network will do, use it to make the benefits of A I accessible to everyone. And so we, we did one, we developed world I which we think is that proof of human on internet scale. We launched a token last July, which brought us to step number two. And so currently we are at three. And that means that a big, big focus of what we do is the continuous scale and decentralization of the network. Currently, every two seconds, someone who joined the network. We are at 15 million total users, 7 million of which verified with an orb. And one other thing that we really care about is the density of the network because we think that makes it useful for developers and us to build products that are actually critical and useful to people. We are now at one out of seven in Santiago and Lisbon, just two examples and even one out of three of adults in Buenos Aires Argentina that are verified. And so while this is exciting and kind of something to be proud of from where we came from, this is of course, just the very beginning, just like truly the super early beginnings of what we are trying to do because the mission here is to truly bring the service to every human. And the first step of the plan talked about proof of human. And five years ago, this sounded like this abstract thing because Ellen turing actually don't work. They just break for one reason or the other. You could think about using phone cameras, you could think about potentially using government I DS, maybe using face ID, none of those actually work. And given we really care about this problem and we think it's critical to achieve our ultimate mission. We took it very serious and we came to this like super super painful realization very early in the project that we will likely have to distribute physical hardware around the world. And not only that we have to open it up. So many other companies, many other parties can join us in building these devices and probably like many different shapes, probably integrated into hardware devices that already exist or we already use. But this is very likely what will need to happen because the current infrastructure, the current systems that are out there just don't work for that particular problem. And that's why we built the orb which and secure as well as an anonymous way to solve the proof of human problem at global scale. And today we will talk about the next generation of the orbs something we've worked on really hard for quite a while and I'm really excited about. So here it is, here's the new Orb. So besides being just incredibly beautiful, it was designed from the ground up with scale in mind, the entire software stack was completely rewritten for all orbs to enable verifications three times faster than before. The new ORB was designed with 30% fewer parts and it enables us to assemble them at twice the speed. Initially, we're tripling the production capacity of the orb with plans to increase that even further with new assembly partners and locations around the world. We're making progress towards the ultimate goal of decentralized orb manufacturing of the latest ORB is built with uh the NVIDIA Jetson architecture which has five times the A I performance over the previous generation. It's capable of 100 trillion operations per second. So this enables the new orb to execute sophisticated A I models that prove humanness and operate entirely on device and even faster than before the new orb was built with more transparency and the ability to audit the code that's running on it. It has a fully removable SD card that contains all the operating instructions. So anyone can compare those instructions on the SD card versus our published source code. But to provide access to every human, we need more orbs lots more orbs probably on the order of 1000 times more orbs than we have today. Not only more herbs, but more orbs in more places. And I wanna talk about a few ways. We're gonna achieve that today. Firstly, we'll continue to expand our operations into even more countries than we're in today. I'm excited to share the flagship locations with you today. Also, these are premium verification experiences. We have staff there available to answer any questions people have. We've opened our first two flagship locations in Buenos Aires and Mexico City just a couple of weeks ago. This is our Mexico City location that opened just a few weeks back. I think they really look amazing. Next, we're expanding access to orbs through self serve verifications. Think of these as orbs inside existing retail locations. So your neighborhood convenience store or local coffee shop, like you see behind me, these enable people to both discover the project through seeing an orb in a retail environment or specifically going to that retail store with the intent to verify with an orb. These partnerships are key to scaling the orb locations and getting more distributed in a region. They're providing access to even more people than we do today. And if you don't want to go find an orb, that's ok. So starting today, we're announcing a new feature called Orb on demand. This will enable anyone with the touch of a button to request an orb come to them much like a pizza you would have delivered to your apartment, you can push a button, it shows up at your door and that driver then leaves the food behind. And I'm incredibly excited to announce a brand new partnership with Rappy, the number one delivery service in Latin America. They're integrating with our app and they'll dispatch their existing delivery fleet to bring orbs to anyone who wants to verify whenever they want to. And lastly, I wanna talk about a new type of operator. We're starting today called community operators. So anyone can rent or buy the new orb to verify anyone in their community. We'll have a website up. You can place your preorder and starting in the spring of 2025 it'll be delivered to you. In fact, I want all of you guys here today to be our first community operators. Everyone here will get an orb