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Subscribe to enjoy similar stories. Google is having its own ChatGPT moment. Technologists, scientists and OpenAI founder Sam Altman have been praising a feature added by NotebookLM, a free online research tool that Alphabet released last year.

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The artificial intelligence maker OpenAI may face a costly and inconvenient reckoning with its nonprofit origins even as its valuation recently exploded to $157 billion

Back in 2016, the artificial intelligence maker OpenAI had just incorporated as a nonprofit and applied to the Internal Revenue Service for tax-exempt status

Sam Altman, CEO of OpenAI, started pitching an audacious plan that he hoped would create the computing power his company needed to build more powerful artificial intelligence. In meetings with investors in the United Arab Emirates, computer chip makers in Asia and officials in Washington, he proposed that they unite on a multitrillion-dollar effort to erect new computer chip factories and data centers across the globe, including in the Middle East. Though some participants and regulators balked at parts of the plan, the talks have continued and expanded into Europe and Canada. OpenAI's blueprint for the world's technology future, which was described to The New York Times by nine people close to the company's discussions, would create countless data centers providing a global reservoir of computing power dedicated to building the next generation of AI.

OpenAI CFO Sarah Friar is looking to reassure its investors that the richly valued artificial intelligence startup is still in a strong position and is poised to close a big funding round soon, despite losing top talent this week.

Microsoft-backed OpenAI is working on a plan to restructure its core business into a for-profit benefit corporation that its non-profit board will no longer control, Reuters reported, a move which has rubbed Elon Musk the wrong way. Musk, who was among the founders of the artificial intelligence (AI) startup in 2015, took to X, to say, “You can’t just convert a non-profit into a for-profit. That is illegal,” after a user questioned OpenAI’s move.

Subscribe to enjoy similar stories. A rare beast may soon lumber across the hills of Silicon Valley: not a $1bn unicorn, nor a $10bn decacorn, but a hectocorn—a startup valued at more than $100bn. OpenAI, the maker of ChatGPT, is understood to be in talks to raise $6.5bn from investors to fund the expansion dreams of its co-founder, Sam Altman.

Subscribe to enjoy similar stories. A United Arab Emirates state-backed company is in talks to invest in OpenAI as part of a multibillion-dollar fundraising round for the startup behind ChatGPT. MGX, which the U.A.E.

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Elon Musk has filed a second lawsuit against OpenAI and two founders, Sam Altman and Greg Brockman

OpenAI Chief Executive Sam Altman said on Tuesday the ChatGPT maker's AI safety leader Aleksander Madry was working on a new research project, as the startup rejigs the preparedness team.

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Universities are in a race for relevance in the field of generative AI as private companies, loaded with talent and pricey chips, drive the conversation. Outspent by Silicon Valley, some are turning their research focus to less computing-power intensive areas of artificial intelligence, even as they seek to build additional computing resources capable of powering bigger models. “Academic institutions are scrambling to get access to compute," said Hod Lipson, chair of the mechanical engineering department at Columbia University.

Sam Altman and Arianna Huffington, author and founder of behaviour tech company Thrive Global, have launched a customised, hyper-personalised AI health coach, Thrive AI Health, to improve daily habits and chronic health issues. Thrive AI Health will be available as a mobile app and will be integrated with Thrive Global's enterprise products. The company will train the model through peer-reviewed science, along with personal biometric and medical data that a user shares with the company.

One of the founders of OpenAI who was involved in a failed effort to push out CEO Sam Altman says he’s starting a safety-focused artificial intelligence company

Amazon Web Services has announced a $230 million commitment aimed at accelerating the development of generative artificial intelligence applications by startups worldwide. The initiative will provide early stage companies with AWS cloud computing credits, mentorship, and education to further their utilisation of AI and machine learning technologies, the company said. Participating startups will have access to AWS computing, storage, database, and custom AI chip offerings through the provided credits.

OpenAI is on pace for $3.4 billion of annual revenue, Chief Executive Officer Sam Altman told the company’s staff, according to a person familiar with the matter.In an all-hands meeting Wednesday, Altman said the vast majority of that revenue — about $3.2 billion — comes from OpenAI’s products and services, according to the person, who spoke on condition of anonymity to discuss internal communications. Altman said OpenAI is also on track to generate about $200 million by offering access to its AI models through Microsoft Azure, the person said.Also Read: Musk declares ban on Apple devices in his companies if OpenAI is integrated amid security concernsThe Information was first to report the revenue figure.