OpenAI owes us $180 billion
Today, Explained
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🗓️ 25 March 2026
⏱️ 28 minutes
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| 0:00.0 | Chat GPT. |
| 0:02.0 | You either love it or you hate it, am I right? |
| 0:04.0 | You love it because it tells you why your back keeps doing that. |
| 0:07.0 | You hate it because it uses a boatload of fresh water to do so. |
| 0:10.0 | Or maybe you hate it because after OpenAI trained chat on centuries of humanity's creative labor, |
| 0:16.0 | its leader, Sam Altman, said he wants to sell it right back to us. |
| 0:20.0 | We see a future where intelligence is a utility like electricity or water, and people buy it |
| 0:29.6 | from us on a meter and use it for whatever they want to use it for. |
| 0:34.4 | Cool. But wait, Chad GPT's parent company OpenAI has the potential to do tons of good, too? |
| 0:40.4 | Turns out they've got $180 billion of charitable monies to give away to humanity, to help our cause. |
| 0:46.8 | That's more than double what the Gates Foundation has to play with. |
| 0:50.0 | OpenAI owes us $180 billion. |
| 0:53.5 | But are we going to get it? |
| 0:55.1 | On today, Explain from Box. |
| 0:56.7 | Here we go. |
| 0:59.6 | Once upon a dismal day, Bob's ice cream van looked gloomy and gray. |
| 1:04.4 | Although he had big ambitions, his socials lacked creative vision. |
| 1:08.4 | Ugh, that bad? |
| 1:09.5 | Maybe vamp it up a tad? |
| 1:11.1 | I have an idea. |
| 1:12.8 | Bob launched Canva and got into gear. |
| 1:15.3 | Create the video in the vampire team and make it the funny as I mean. |
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