OpenAI’s CEO, Sam Altman, is looking to secure investment and funding to enable and facilitate mass production of AI chips. It is estimated that this project will require anywhere from $5 to $7 trillion. These AI chips will drastically increase the capabilities and powers of OpenAI’s AI. There is currently a market scarcity of AI chips, which limits OpenAI’s capabilities of training large language models.
Investors are diverse, from various chip manufacturers, shareholders and a range of others, including the government of the United Arab Emirates. This is only normal as the investment required is tremendous. It will be used to construct new AI chip factories. When considering that OpenAI’s revenue, as of December 2023, was valued at $2 billion, the $5 to $7 trillion dollars required for this ambitious project are indeed very large, and will certainly require substantial investment from a range of investors.
It will be intriguing to see where this goes. There are vast implications of this. It is certain that we will see even greater advancements in AI and AI capabilities, and this investment will certainly be instrumental in facilitating this.