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.

  • SatansMaggotyCumFart
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    -291 year ago

    AI will double the world’s economy so they’re basically giving us an extra 94% for free.

    • Avid Amoeba
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      261 year ago

      The world economy cannot double without destroying the planet’s ability to sustain us.

    • @Num10ck
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      51 year ago

      inagine it like putting the middle classes wealth in a blender.

      • @[email protected]
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        51 year ago

        But instead of a delicious smoothie, it makes that toxic dust like the will it blend videos.