{"id":185006,"date":"2024-03-13T10:23:21","date_gmt":"2024-03-13T15:23:21","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2024\/03\/openai-ceo-sam-altman-seeks-as-much-as-7-trillion-for-new-ai-chip-project-report"},"modified":"2024-03-13T10:23:21","modified_gmt":"2024-03-13T15:23:21","slug":"openai-ceo-sam-altman-seeks-as-much-as-7-trillion-for-new-ai-chip-project-report","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2024\/03\/openai-ceo-sam-altman-seeks-as-much-as-7-trillion-for-new-ai-chip-project-report","title":{"rendered":"OpenAI CEO Sam Altman seeks as much as $7 trillion for new AI chip project: Report"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a class=\"aligncenter blog-photo\" href=\"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog.images\/openai-ceo-sam-altman-seeks-as-much-as-7-trillion-for-new-ai-chip-project-report2.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>OpenAI CEO Sam Altman is seeking trillions of dollars in investments to overhaul the global semiconductor industry, The Wall Street Journal reported.<\/p>\n<p>Altman has long talked of the supply-and-demand problem with AI chips \u2014 many AI giants want them, but there aren\u2019t enough to go around \u2014 and that it limits OpenAI\u2019s growth. He\u2019s considering a project that would increase global chip-building capacity, according to a Thursday evening report in The Wall Street Journal, and is reportedly in talks with different investors, including the government of the United Arab Emirates.<\/p>\n<p>Altman could need to raise between $5 trillion and $7 trillion for the endeavor, The Wall Street Journal reported, citing one source. CNBC could not confirm the number. OpenAI did not respond to a request for comment.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>OpenAI CEO Sam Altman is seeking trillions of dollars in investments to overhaul the global semiconductor industry, The Wall Street Journal reported. Altman has long talked of the supply-and-demand problem with AI chips \u2014 many AI giants want them, but there aren\u2019t enough to go around \u2014 and that it limits OpenAI\u2019s growth. He\u2019s considering [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":556,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1490,6],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-185006","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-government","category-robotics-ai"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/185006","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\/556"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=185006"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/185006\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=185006"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=185006"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=185006"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}