2024-02-09 19:47:25
By Chloé Woitier
Published 1 hour ago, Updated 49 minutes ago
Sam Altman, CEO of OpenAI in San Francisco, California, November 16, 2023. ANDREW CABALLERO-REYNOLDS / AFP
NARRATIVE – The head of OpenAI is seeking to raise trillions of dollars to build dozens of semiconductor production factories.
From 5000 to 7000 billion dollars. This sum, twice the GDP of France, is what Sam Altman is seeking to mobilize to carry out a project that he considers essential to enable the real development of artificial intelligence. THE Wall Street Journal revealed, on Thursday, the crazy costing of this initiative which is no less: multiplying the industrial fabric of AI, a sector which seems immaterial at first glance but which relies on factories to exist.
« The world needs greater infrastructure for AI – factories, energy, data centers, etc. – than what is currently planned to be built »published Sam Altman Thursday on X (ex-Twitter). « Building this massive infrastructure, along with a robust supply chain, will be crucial for economic competitiveness. OpenAI is here to help ! »
“Cutting edge AI solutions”
To raise this staggering sum, and in relation to which the European or American plans to accommodate semiconductor factories…
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