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Sam Altman and the $7T geopolitics of AI chips | The AI Beat
Silicon Valley was arguably more captivated this weekend by OpenAI CEO Sam Altman's fundraising efforts for AI chips than the Super Bowl.
But not even the hometown challengers, the San Francisco 49ers, could keep Silicon Valley as engrossed as the news about OpenAI CEO Sam Altman and his quest for up to $7 trillion in AI chip funding, which the Wall Street Journal reported last Thursday. That’s because Altman kept his X posts coming, one after the other, all weekend long — from short, cryptic bites like “ chaotic good ” and “ also roon is my alt ” to slightly longer missives insisting that he doesn’t “really know that much about this rumored compute thing” and pushing back on haters with “you can grind to help secure our collective future or you can write substacks about why we are going fail.” After that, take a flight across the Atlantic Ocean until you hit the United Arab Emirates, where Sheikh Tahnoun bin Zayed al Nahyan, who has served as the country’s global security advisor since 2016, is the chair of AI firm G42.
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