Latest Tech: Sam Altman’s $7 trillion AI chip project might not be very realistic
OpenAI CEO Sam Altman wants to raise trillions of dollars to reshape the global semiconductor industry, The Wall Street Journal reported earlier this month, an effort to boost chip-making capacity and power more artificial intelligence. It’s an eye-boggling amount, one that was put to Nvidia CEO Jensen Huang — the man behind the AI company of the moment — for his thoughts.Tarek El Moussa's road out of debt to being a millionaire | Your WalletWhen asked during the World Government Summit in Dubai this week how many GPUs can be bought for $7 trillion, Huang jokingly responded: “Apparently all the GPUs.” (GPUs, or graphics processing units, power generative AI applications like ChatGPT and OpenAI’s new video-generating AI Sora.) Huang then expressed skepticism about the figure. He said comput...
