OpenAI CEO Sam Altman is in talks with investors, including from the United Arab Emirates, to raise between $5 trillion to $7 trillion in funding. The goal, according to a report in The Wall Street Journal, is to increase the world’s chip manufacturing capacity and enhance AI capabilities.

The fundraising efforts are part of a broader strategy to address OpenAI’s growth constraints, particularly the scarcity of AI chips needed for training large language models like ChatGPT.

Altman’s proposal is said to include forming a partnership with investors, chip manufacturers, and power providers to finance the construction of chip foundries, which would then be operated by the chip manufacturers.

  • @rockSlayer
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    1 year ago

    If a company uses “b” or “t” in it’s financial numbers, then the companies should have the piss taxed out of them. There is no justifiable reason for numbers that large to be tax free in literally any context.

    • @ABCDE
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      -51 year ago

      Unless they are being donated to good causes.

      • Midnight Wolf
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        161 year ago

        The CEO: creating a shell company as fast as possible, “for donating”

        • @ABCDE
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          11 year ago

          Hence my “good” comment; I was going to expand on that but assumed it would be interpreted correctly.