OpenAI’s Founder and CEO Sam Altman has now raised over $7 trillion to start a venture in semiconductor production.
OpenAI CEO Sam Altman’s Ambitious $7 Trillion Plan to Make AI Chips
According to a report from the Wall Street Journal, Altman has approached several investors from the Middle East for an ambitious project of chip development. The news comes shortly after his post on X (formerly Twitter), which expressed Altman’s interest in building a massive-scale supply chain for AI.
However, artificial intelligence consumes a lot of computing resources, leading to an increased demand for industry-grade processors, GPUs, and Neural Processing Units (NPUs).
Services like ChatGPT and DALL-E by OpenAI currently rely on a supercomputer built by Microsoft, which contains over 10,000 Nvidia GPUs.
Microsoft has already developed two custom processors, Cobalt 100 and Maia 100, which are also utilized by OpenAI.
But considering the estimated budget of this project, we can assume that OpenAI plans to develop everything, from chip designing to final production under its own foundries. For comparison, the GDP of India is $3.3 trillion.
