OpenAI has laid out a new strategic phase that it says will focus on making advanced AI more widely available, safer, and better coordinated across borders. In a post by Sam Altman and Jakub Pachocki, the company said it is moving beyond earlier stages of research and product development into what it calls a third phase shaped by the rise of AI across the economy.

The company framed its vision around the idea that major technologies do not just create new tools. They also reshape how people work, learn, and build wealth. OpenAI compared the current moment to the spread of electricity, arguing that the real value of AI will come not just from the systems themselves, but from how broadly people can use them. The company said AI should help people solve practical problems, from managing medical bills to starting businesses, studying new skills, and making scientific discoveries.

OpenAI emphasized that it does not want a future in which AI replaces human judgment. Instead, it said AI should support people in setting goals, making tradeoffs, and applying responsibility and care. The company also warned that powerful systems could concentrate power if they are not governed carefully. In its view, the safer path is one in which access to AI is widespread rather than restricted to a small number of companies, governments, or individuals.

A major part of the plan is to build what OpenAI described as an automated AI researcher. The company said it expects AI to play an increasingly important role in AI research itself, helping researchers test ideas, spot errors, compare alternatives, and speed up iteration. OpenAI said it believes a significant share of its research could be done by AI systems working alongside human researchers by March 2028, though that was presented as an internal expectation rather than a public forecast.

OpenAI also said it aims to accelerate the economy by boosting scientific progress, productivity, and growth, while trying to ensure the benefits are shared widely. Its third goal is more direct: to give every person on Earth a personal AGI, which the company described as a way for individuals to benefit from advanced AI according to their own needs and choices.

The company said these ambitions require more than technical progress. It argued that as AI systems become more powerful, national and global coordination will matter more, not less. OpenAI said it has long believed there should eventually be an international organization to help coordinate leading AI efforts and reduce catastrophic risk. Such a body, it suggested, could help countries and companies take shared action when necessary, including slowing frontier development if safety and societal resilience require it.

OpenAI described the shift as a transition into a third phase. The first phase focused on basic AGI research. The second phase began when OpenAI became a product company and started deploying systems in the real world. The third phase, according to the company, is about making advanced AI abundant, affordable, safe, useful, and easy enough for individuals and organizations to use.

The company closed by arguing that broad distribution of power will be central to a good AI future. It said access, privacy, affordability, open ecosystems, and public oversight will all matter if AI is to support productivity, creativity, and scientific progress without concentrating too much control in too few hands.