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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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[-] Telodzrum@lemmy.world 16 points 10 months ago

Generative AI is not an important development. General AI would be. This is just a party trick.

[-] whoelectroplateuntil@sh.itjust.works 7 points 10 months ago* (last edited 10 months ago)

Yeah, AI's been a whole field for many decades, machine learning and deep learning is a whole field that existed and was doing tons of interesting work across a variety of domains before transformers came out. Fully agreed that LLM's are a party trick, but companies use party tricks to gin up interest and money for their real work all the time. None of this changes the fact that AI is important technology.

[-] KevonLooney@lemm.ee 4 points 10 months ago

It's also open source too. With faster chips and standard training sets, it will be trivial for anyone to train a basic AI to recognize fire hydrants or whatever. Just like with computers, the "revolution" will not be one giant company but every business using their own.

Your fridge only needs to recognize food items. It doesn't need any more intelligent software. I want a food recognition AI and cameras in the fridge and cabinets so I know what food I need to buy. This doesn't even need live cameras (for power consumption, privacy, and storage). It can just take a picture and analyze it when the door opens, then delete the picture.

[-] datavoid@lemmy.ml 1 points 10 months ago

Sorry what's all open source?

[-] GBU_28@lemm.ee 1 points 10 months ago* (last edited 10 months ago)

Llms. There are very competitive, fully open source models.

Openai is not.

[-] scarabic@lemmy.world 1 points 10 months ago

Generative AI pales in importance compared to General AI but it is still an important development on its own.

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