OpenAI CEO Sam Altman plans to implement a large-scale project to create equipment and systems for artificial intelligence worth tens of billions of dollars. This is written by Bloomberg with reference to sources.
In February the agency reported about the AI startup CEO’s desire to get US government approval to launch a large-scale enterprise to manufacture chips needed to run neural networks. That same month, the media learned about Altman’s negotiations with investors regarding raising $5 trillion to $7 trillion for these purposes.
According to Bloomberg, Altman and his team are now discussing building data centers, increasing power and energy transmission using turbines and generators, and expanding semiconductor manufacturing.
Potential sponsors include investors from Canada, Korea, Japan and the UAE. Private companies such as Microsoft are expected to participate.
OpenAI executives, including Altman, have been meeting with investors in recent weeks to advance the deal. OpenAI Chief Strategy Officer Jason Kwon recently visited Japan and Korea, OpenAI Vice President of Global Policy Chris Lehane spoke with investors in Canada, and Altman discussed working with investors in the UAE, the agency writes.
In recent months, OpenAI has held meetings with the US National Security Council regarding its planned investments, Bloomberg noted.
During the talks, Altman and other OpenAI executives emphasize that the global infrastructure plan would help bolster America’s geopolitical advantage by creating a multinational coalition to compete with China’s infrastructure consortium. Foreign capital that might otherwise go to China would instead be invested in the U.S.
The discussions come as OpenAI nears closing a round valued at more than $100 billion.
One of the benefits of participating in the initiative is that other companies and US allies will be able to benefit from OpenAI’s infrastructure projects. Jobs will also be created.
Strawberry, Orion and GPT Next
Meanwhile, the media is learning details about OpenAI’s upcoming AI models.
A representative of the Japanese subsidiary of OpenAI, Tadao Nagasaki, announced plans to soon announce a new neural network called GPT Next. This is written by IT Media.
According to him, it will be “almost 100 times more advanced than previous ones.”
Comparison of OpenAI’s next AI model with previous ones. Data: IT Media.
In July, it became known that the startup was working on a new project codenamed Strawberry.
With Strawberry, Altman’s firm aims to significantly improve the reasoning process of AI models and enable them to plan ahead in order to “autonomously and reliably” explore information on the internet and conduct “deep exploration.”
The project was previously called Q* and was seen as a breakthrough for creating artificial general intelligence (AGI) that “could threaten humanity.”
Another language model that OpenAI is working on is Orion. Media outlets note that it is positioned as a flagship model and could potentially replace GPT-4 in the field of language understanding and generation with additional multimodality capabilities.
In August, OpenAI released a new feature for customizing GPT-4o to suit a particular company’s unique needs.
The startup previously introduced the ability to generate up to two images per day in the free version of ChatGPT using the DALL-E 3 AI model.
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