Business Wars: The Battle for OpenAI
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🗓️ 1 April 2024
⏱️ 9 minutes
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Summary
Business Wars is a podcast about the biggest corporate rivalries. In the newest season, host David Brown tracks the power struggles and philosophical differences within OpenAI that culminated in Sam Altman’s shocking firing, the chaos that followed, and what it means not just for OpenAI, but for the future of artificial intelligence safety overall.
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| 0:00.0 | With the launch of ChatGPT, Sam Altman and Open AI reinvigorated imaginations and fears of a world |
| 0:07.1 | with artificial intelligence. |
| 0:08.8 | But while the company looked like a stunning success from the outside, a battle was brewing within on what the future of AI should be. |
| 0:15.6 | Almost a year after launching ChatGPT, that battle erupted into a full-scale war |
| 0:20.6 | when one of the company's co-founder staged a coup to oust the company's |
| 0:24.1 | infamous CEO Sam Altman. From Wundery, Business Wars is a podcast about the biggest |
| 0:28.9 | corporate rivalries of all time and in our newest season we track the power struggles and philosophical |
| 0:34.4 | differences within open AI that culminated in Sam Altman's shocking firing chaos |
| 0:39.5 | that followed and what it means not just for the company but for the future and safety of artificial |
| 0:44.5 | intelligence in the modern world. |
| 0:46.6 | You're about to hear a clip from the newest season of Business Wars. |
| 0:49.4 | In the meantime, make sure to follow Business Wars on the Wundery app or wherever you get your podcasts. |
| 0:54.2 | And don't forget you can listen early and ad free right now by joining Wundery Plus. It's just before noon on Friday, November 17th, 2023 in Las Vegas, Nevada. |
| 1:14.6 | Open AI CEO Sam Altman hustles into his hotel suite on the Las Vegas |
| 1:18.9 | Strip. |
| 1:21.2 | He's 38 years old with a small elf and frame and large blue eyes. |
| 1:25.0 | Over the past year, he's become one of the most powerful people in Silicon Valley. |
| 1:30.0 | In November 2022, Open AI released ChatGPT version 3.5, a chat |
| 1:37.9 | bot that can write code, answer questions, and even tell jokes, all while seeming uncannily human. |
| 1:45.0 | Within a year, this iteration of chat gPT has gained roughly 100 million users. |
| 1:52.0 | It has leapfrogged giant tech companies like Google and |
| 1:55.3 | Meta to become the leading artificial intelligence company in the world. |
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