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IT Home reported on February 16 that according to Bloomberg, citing sources familiar with the situation, OpenAI CEO Sam Altman is trying to get approval from the United States for a large-scale investment to promote the global production of AI chips.
Mr. Altman has been meeting with potential investors and partners in the United States, the Middle East and Asia for the past few weeks, but he told some of them that his plans would not move forward without Washington's green light.
Altman is arguably an "old acquaintance" of the U.S. Congress, where he has repeatedly promoted his AI agenda. According to the report, Altman is trying to seek the consent of the United States to a plan to use some of the money from the Middle East to accelerate semiconductor production.
According to a person familiar with the matter who spoke on condition of anonymity, Altman said he believes it is important to work with the U.S. on issues such as the approval, timing and structure of the joint venture. Some of them said Altman was also considering whether to form a new company independent of OpenAI and issue it**, a move that could raise antitrust concerns.
As previously reported by IT House, Altman has made an ambitious plan for AI chips: the goal is to raise trillions of dollars to transform the global semiconductor industry and promote the development of artificial general intelligence (AGI). Altman's goal is to increase global chip production and enhance AI capabilities, and it is estimated that up to $7 trillion will be needed to bring the project to fruition.
AGI is also known as strong AI and human-level AI, which can be colloquially understood as an intelligent agent that can learn and act rationally in any environment, simply put, an intelligent system that is inherently and behaving like a human (rather than being confined to a specific domain like weak AI or machine learning algorithms).
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