OpenAI Considers $7 Trillion Round, Thinks It Can Double Revenue by 2025: Reports - Decrypt
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OpenAI CEO Sam Altman is said to be in talks with investors about raising between $5 trillion and $7 trillion in a new funding round.

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.

  • EdibleFriend@lemmy.worldEnglish
    133·
    9 months ago

    The fundraising efforts are part of a broader strategy to address OpenAI’s growth constraints,

    see…we just can’t grow without TRILLIONS OF FUCKING DOLLARS

    • bunnyfc@kbin.social
      26·
      9 months ago

      i have a business case to become the major player in the chip industry: buy the planet’s economy

    • smb@lemmy.mlEnglish
      4·
      9 months ago

      maybe just “they” can’t.

      probably a bad idea to put those with already too many recource usage, who are living on the cost of society for uncountable generations, in positions to decide anything. maybe.

    • assassin_aragorn@lemmy.worldEnglish
      3·
      9 months ago

      Between this and saying they couldn’t operate if they fairly paid authors, I’m getting the feeling that Altman might be as talented of a CEO as Spez and Musk.

      That is – if anyone else was making decisions, the companies would be vastly more successful.

    • scarabic@lemmy.worldEnglish
      1·
      9 months ago

      If a leap in world computing capacity is really what’s needed here then it is a tall order. Crypto has been sucking up an increasing share of that in recent years and will probably continue to do so as long as people love money and are idiots. Plus the geopolitics around Taiwan, China, annd the US are a problem as well. I’m not sure how you solve all that even with 5 trillion.