569: Whatever It Takes

Altman's on a spending spree for AGI – why the huge price tag? Mike's back from NYC with juicy API gossip, and we break down the incentives pumping up a giant AI bubble.

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• The Possibilities of AI [Entire Talk] - Sam Altman (OpenAI) - YouTube — Sam Altman is the co-founder and CEO of OpenAI, the AI research and deployment company behind ChatGPT and DALL-E. Altman was president of the early-stage startup accelerator Y Combinator from 2014 to 2019. In 2015, he co-founded OpenAI as a nonprofit research lab with the mission to build general-purpose artificial intelligence that benefits all humanity. In this conversation with Stanford adjunct lecturer Ravi Belani, Altman gives advice for aspiring AI entrepreneurs and shares his insights about the opportunities and risks of AI tools and artificial general intelligence.
• Microsoft, Meta, and Alphabet disclosed that they had spent $32B+ combined on data centers and other capital expenses in Q1, as they accelerate AI spending — The spending that the industry’s giants expect artificial intelligence to require is starting to come into focus — and it is jarringly large.
• @shiraovide • For a sense of how bonkers the money is — Google and Microsoft combined spent $26 billion IN THREE MONTHS on computer chips, servers, data centers and other big ticket costs.
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