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.

  • @db2
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    1610 months ago

    Thou shalt not make a machine in the likeness of a human mind.

    • @[email protected]
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      1110 months ago

      You orange Catholics are all the same, afraid of a progress just cuz of a little jihad every now and again.

    • @[email protected]
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      510 months ago

      Spoiler, the Butlerian Jihad and the prohibition on AI was actually a problem runs away before Dune fans can tar and feather me

    • @andros_rex
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      310 months ago

      I’m pretty good at math, I think I’d make a decent Mentat.