OpenAI CEO Sam Altman wants to build AI “superintelligence”

“Right now, people [say] ‘you have this research lab, you have this API [software], you have the partnership with Microsoft, you have this ChatGPT thing, now there is a GPT store.’ But those aren’t really our products,” Altman said. “Those are channels into our one single product, which is intelligence, magic intelligence in the sky. I think that’s... See more

Altman said there had been “a brutal crunch” all year due to supply shortages of Nvidia’s $40,000-a-piece chips. He said his company had received H100s, and was expecting more soon, adding that “next year looks already like it’s going to be better.”

However, as other players such as Google, Microsoft, AMD and Intel prepare to release rival AI chips,... See more

“There was a long period of time where the right thing for [Isaac] Newton to do was to read more math textbooks, and talk to professors and practice problems ... that’s what our current models do,” said Altman, using an example a colleague had previously used.

But he added that Newton was never going to invent calculus by simply reading about geomet... See more