Sam Altman’s $7 Trillion ‘Moonshot’

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🗓️ 14 February 2024

⏱️ 20 minutes

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OpenAI and its CEO Sam Altman kicked off an AI revolution with the viral ChatGPT. Now, Altman has set his sights on another ambitious goal: Raise up to $7 trillion to overhaul the world’s semiconductor chip industry. WSJ’s Keach Hagey explains what the plan entails, and why skeptics think it will be an uphill battle. Further Listening: - Artificial: The OpenAI Story Further Reading: - Sam Altman Seeks Trillions of Dollars to Reshape Business of Chips and AI - Raising Trillions of Dollars Might Be the Easy Part of Altman’s Chip Plan Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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0:00.0	So I'm going to say a word and then can you tell me what you think of? Okay.
0:11.0	Um, Java.
0:13.0	Script?
0:15.0	Oh, cookies.
0:17.0	Google.
0:18.0	Chips?
0:20.0	Tortilla.
0:23.0	That's our colleague Kichhagi.
0:28.1	And we weren't there to talk about tortilla chips.
0:31.1	We were there to talk about a different kind of chip, computer chips, specifically
0:37.0	high-powered semiconductor chips.
0:41.0	Demand for these chips has soared because of the explosion of artificial intelligence.
0:47.0	But supply isn't keeping up.
0:50.0	And one person who says there needs to be more chips is Sam Altman, the CEO of Open
0:57.2	AI, the leader of the AI Revolution.
1:00.8	There are not enough chips to get to AGI or artificial general
1:08.1	intelligence the stated goal of the company he leads. Artificial general intelligence means
1:15.0	AI can beat humans at certain tasks
1:19.0	and it's extremely computationally expensive
1:22.0	to do this research, and it's been sort of the main choke point of this
1:27.3	Technological journey that they're on so one way to solve it is to vastly expand the amount of chips.
1:36.0	Now Altman has a plan. He's working on a new project to fix the chip shortage. But there's a hitch. This whole
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