Sam Altman would have prioritized business over science
Posted: Mon Jan 06, 2025 8:39 am
Altman has always been the brains and the most distinguished public relations man of the revolution born from the depths of OpenAI. In recent years, the former CEO of OpenAI has paraded through hundreds of stages across the globe and has even appeared in the United States Congress to stress the absolutely urgent need to regulate AI, while he has won the favor of investors to continue attracting capital to ChatGPT's parent company. According to The New York Times , Altman was about to close a deal with an investor that would have boosted the value of OpenAI to $80 billion, three times what it was just six months ago.
But if Altman had managed to turn OpenAI into one of the most valuable startups in the world, why is he now out on his own?
According to the peru number screening Semafor portal , Altman has apparently been working for some time to attract capital for a new fund focused on investments in "hard tech" , that is, products that are difficult to implement, such as self-driving cars or quantum computers. The former CEO of OpenAI had also invested hundreds of millions of dollars in the fusion energy startup Helion and was also working on the Worldcoin cryptocurrency, which planned to identify users using their irises.
Some sources (who prefer to remain anonymous) claim, on the other hand, that Altman has focused on making profits rather than developing safe AI. Rumor has it that Altman has always put pure business before science. And at a time when the possible harmful effects of AI are being hotly debated, all eyes are on OpenAI, which is the leading company in this field of activity.
But if Altman had managed to turn OpenAI into one of the most valuable startups in the world, why is he now out on his own?
According to the peru number screening Semafor portal , Altman has apparently been working for some time to attract capital for a new fund focused on investments in "hard tech" , that is, products that are difficult to implement, such as self-driving cars or quantum computers. The former CEO of OpenAI had also invested hundreds of millions of dollars in the fusion energy startup Helion and was also working on the Worldcoin cryptocurrency, which planned to identify users using their irises.
Some sources (who prefer to remain anonymous) claim, on the other hand, that Altman has focused on making profits rather than developing safe AI. Rumor has it that Altman has always put pure business before science. And at a time when the possible harmful effects of AI are being hotly debated, all eyes are on OpenAI, which is the leading company in this field of activity.