Why Is OpenAI's Sam Altman Raising $7 Trillion? (PREVIEW)

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The word on the street is that Sam Altman, the once embattled and now seemingly fine CEO of OpenAI, is currently out in the market trying to raise money for a new microchip-related venture. The amount of money he's raising? Seven trillion dollars, which is about 10% of global GDP. In this episode, we discuss the insane computing requirements of a company like OpenAI, and why Sam might be looking to find a new friend other than Nvidia.

Links

• Sam Altman Seeks Trillions of Dollars to Reshape Business of Chips and AI – The Wall Street Journal
• OpenAI Shifts AI Battleground to Software That Operates Devices, Automates Tasks – The Information

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