{"id":182318,"date":"2024-02-08T23:22:42","date_gmt":"2024-02-09T05:22:42","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2024\/02\/sam-altman-seeks-trillions-of-dollars-to-reshape-business-of-chips-and-ai"},"modified":"2024-02-08T23:22:42","modified_gmt":"2024-02-09T05:22:42","slug":"sam-altman-seeks-trillions-of-dollars-to-reshape-business-of-chips-and-ai","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2024\/02\/sam-altman-seeks-trillions-of-dollars-to-reshape-business-of-chips-and-ai","title":{"rendered":"Sam Altman Seeks Trillions of Dollars to Reshape Business of Chips and AI"},"content":{"rendered":"

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Sam Altman was already trying to lead the development of human-level artificial intelligence. Now he has another great ambition: raising trillions of dollars to reshape the global semiconductor industry.<\/p>\n

The OpenAI chief executive officer is in talks with investors including the United Arab Emirates government to raise funds for a wildly ambitious tech initiative that would boost the world\u2019s chip-building capacity, expand its ability to power AI, among other things, and cost several trillion dollars, according to people familiar with the matter. The project could require raising as much as $5 trillion to $7 trillion, one of the people said.<\/p>\n

The fundraising plans, which face significant obstacles, are aimed at solving constraints to OpenAI\u2019s growth, including the scarcity of the pricey AI chips required to train large language models<\/a> behind AI systems such as ChatGPT. Altman has often complained that there aren\u2019t enough of these kinds of chips\u2014known as graphics processing units, or GPUs\u2014to power OpenAI\u2019s quest for artificial general intelligence<\/a>, which it defines as systems that are broadly smarter than humans.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Sam Altman was already trying to lead the development of human-level artificial intelligence. Now he has another great ambition: raising trillions of dollars to reshape the global semiconductor industry. The OpenAI chief executive officer is in talks with investors including the United Arab Emirates government to raise funds for a wildly ambitious tech initiative that [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":396,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[43,1490,6],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-182318","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-business","category-government","category-robotics-ai"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/182318","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/396"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=182318"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/182318\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=182318"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=182318"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=182318"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}