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Sam Altman’s anti-human worldview

OpenAI CEO downgrades humanity in pursuit of goal to merge with computers

It’s not just the vibes that are off inside OpenAI.

It’s the numbers, too, according to a new Wall Street Journal report, which echoes The Information’s claim earlier this month that CFO Sarah Friar has expressed concern about its IPO plans and CEO Sam Altman’s datacenter spending. It also says the company “missed an internal goal of reaching one billion weekly active users for ChatGPT by the end of last year,” and other revenue targets. [Link: The vibes are off at OpenAI | https://www.theverge.com/ai-artificial-intelligence/908513/the-vibes-are-off-at-openai | The Verge]

“The problem is Sam Altman”: OpenAI insiders don’t trust CEO

OpenAI brainstorms ways AI can benefit humanity in effort to counter bad vibes.

How to think about AI company finances

OpenAI and Anthropic are using the standard tech startup playbook.

An Interview with OpenAI CEO Sam Altman About Building a Consumer Tech Company

An interview with OpenAI CEO Sam Altman about building OpenAI and ChatGPT, and what it means to be an accidental consumer tech company.

OpenAI ‘in early talks to give 5% stake to US government’

CEO Sam Altman argued move would share benefits of AI and it would involve other firms doing similar, report says

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OpenAI creates new unit with $4 billion investment to aid corporate AI push

OpenAI said on Monday it is setting up a new company with more than $4 billion in initial investment ‌to help organizations build and deploy artificial intelligence systems, and ‌will acquire an AI consulting firm, Tomoro, to quickly scale up the unit. After its ​early models saw strong resonance with consumers, OpenAI has been working aggressively to sign corporate contracts and establish a large presence in the business world where its AI will see large-scale deployment. The new firm, called OpenAI Deployment Company, will help the ChatGPT maker embed engineers specializing in frontier AI deployment into ​organizations that ​will then work closely with various ​teams to identify where AI ‌can make the biggest impact, OpenAI said.

The New New Thing: A Silicon Valley Story

In the weird glow of the dying millennium, Michael Lewi…

OpenAI targets workplace professionals as enterprise AI demand surges

‘These leaders recognize AI as the most consequential shift of their lifetime, and they’re asking us how to reinvent their companies around it’

Apple Can ‘Distill’ Google’s Big Gemini Model

Before we get to today’s column, we wanted to flag OpenAI CEO Sam Altman’s major reorg, the company’s new "Spud” model and its decision to shut down the Sora video app and application programming interface, which we scooped on Tuesday. (For what the company’s organizational structure looks like ...