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When I say it sounds like Sam Altman is serious about the hardware end of AI, I mean

it sounds like he's really serious. Sources are telling the Wall Street Journal

that Sam Altman is in talks with investors, including

the United Arab Emirates government, to raise funds for an AI-CHIP initiative that would require

raising as much as five to seven trillion dollars.

Let me say that again.

He's looking to raise five to seven trillion dollars with a T.

Quote, the fundraising plans which face significant obstacles are aimed at

solving constraints to open AI's growth, including the scarcity of the pricey

chips required to train large language models behind AI systems such as ChatGPT.

Altman has often complained that there aren't enough of these kinds of chips, known as

graphics processing units or GPS, to power Open AI's quest for artificial general intelligence, which it defines as systems

that are broadly smarter than humans.

Such a sum of investment would dwarf the current size of the global semiconductor industry.

Global sales of chips were 527 billion dollars last year

and are expected to rise to $1 trillion annually by 2030.

Global sales of semiconductor manufacturing equipment, the costly machinery

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