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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.

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[–] [email protected] 2 points 8 months ago* (last edited 8 months ago)

Better to get that money before the Ponzi fall down..

[–] [email protected] 3 points 9 months ago

Weird that an Altman wants all this human to go to something alternative to humans.

[–] [email protected] 12 points 9 months ago

Scam Altman Freid strikes again

[–] [email protected] 6 points 9 months ago

Ah yes, open "ai"...where we parse as many webaites as possible, rank them internally by keyword usage and or views, then have our "bot" spew that shit at you

[–] [email protected] 15 points 9 months ago (1 children)

At this point I wouldn't mind them accidentally creating Skynet and killing us all in a nuclear inferno, just so we don't have to listen to any more insufferable, grifting techbros.

Max Zorin had the right idea about silicon valley.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 9 months ago

“Accidentally”

[–] [email protected] 29 points 9 months ago (3 children)

I, too, would like 5-7 trillion dollars

[–] [email protected] 3 points 9 months ago

Best I can do is 4 trillion, take it or leave it

[–] [email protected] 8 points 9 months ago (1 children)

you could donate billions per year and still have a trillion left by the time you died. fuck man what would you even do with that much money?

[–] [email protected] 3 points 9 months ago (1 children)

Drugs!

I'd probably give Louis Rossman and the institute for justice a trillion each. Rossman would use it to lobby for the Right to Repair movement, and the IFJ would use it to get rid of blatantly unjust legislation like civil asset forfeiture.

Donating a billion to GDQ while they're live would be pretty funny

[–] [email protected] 0 points 9 months ago (1 children)

rossman is a greedy influencer wannabe that wants to profit from internet injustices, stop being a fanboy.

[–] [email protected] 0 points 9 months ago

He works for a non-profit organization as a Right to Repair lobbyist, so idk what you're on about. You'd already know this if you did any research beyond what you probably heard on Twitter.

If you think he's "greedy" for using his AdSense and MacBook repair money to create tutorials/Wikis for circumventing anti-repair measures and spreading awareness about unethical tech practices, idk what to tell you.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 9 months ago* (last edited 9 months ago)

hell yeah feed the beast let's all turn into weird little egg holder things

[–] [email protected] 2 points 9 months ago

I dunno, I see his picture on an article and I expect it to be bad news.

And it is.

[–] [email protected] 5 points 9 months ago

1 Googol dolars

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