OpenAI: Discounted Tokens for 1-3 Year Capacity Commits

OpenAI is offering discounted tokens for 1-3 year commitments after customers demanded more certainty on capacity, with Sam Altman noting that improving models will keep the world capacity-constrained for some time and that the move aids internal planning as a win-win, consistent with past OpenAI long-term capacity commitments and GPU supply constraints history plus AI model scaling laws compute demand forecasts.