Open AI CEO Sam Altman now turning his attention to chips

reportedly looking to raise up to seven trillion dollars for a new venture.

This is a question we find ourselves asking a lot.

How real is it?

It's Friday, February 9th.

Welcome to the Tech Check podcast.

I'm Jir Jibosa with Mark Gilbert.

How often do we get to say trillions with a tee in what we do?

Trillions with a tee.

Yeah, billions, you know, we used to talk about startups raising

millions and then billions was a big deal.

And now we've got this report that Sam Altman is looking great,

raise trillions.

And I like that what you just said, how real is that, right?

That should be sort of the new name of this podcast.

That's our tagline.

We find it asking so many times we say how real is that? So

Sam Altman founder of open AI dreams big obviously and now he's going around the

Middle East talking to sovereign wealth funds looking to raise trillions with a T. D.

For a new semiconductor venture I mean even just like those two sentences there's so much to unpack.

It's every every part of the story is mind-boggling and huge in terms of

ambition, scale, investment.

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