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.
Do they even think about where in a functioning society those trillions are coming from? Do they think wealth just magically appears without affecting the wealth gap?
It’ll come from the working class, like all wealth does.
I’m starting to think we agreed to a very bad deal. 🥹
We agreed?
Yeah, I didn’t agree to shit. I got yanked from the void into all of this.
Oil money. They even mention the UAE.
oh so contributing to climate change and worsening the wealth gap
AI ain’t gonna give two shits about climate change.
ai is a far cry from being sentient but I get what you mean, the capitalist overlords are gonna use it to extract more money from us instead of giving a shit
I’m not sure but these kinds of wasteful spendings are just “imaginary money” that sits around in virtual bank accounts being hoarded and doing nothing but when it’s wasted like this actually gets spend for salaries etc. Basically all this money is generated in computers and an “inefficiency” until it’s being used.
It’s much worse when they buy up tons of real estate or apartments or buy up existing corporations to make them more “profitable”.